Lieutenant Colonel George Mitchell DSO (10 April 1877 – 16 March 1939) was an Independent Liberal Member of Parliament for Wellington South in New Zealand.

[2] Following the outbreak of the First World War, Mitchell volunteered for the 1st New Zealand Expeditionary Force for service aboard.

He was a major in the Southland Regiment and commanding officer of the 3rd Otago Reserve Battalion from 1917 to 1919, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel.

[4] Mitchell was the sensation of the 1919 election defeating the Labour MP, Bob Semple, who had won the Wellington South electorate in the previous year at a 1918 by-election.

[8] After the end of his parliamentary career, Mitchell served on the Wellington City Council for two periods, from 1923 to 1925 and again from 1927 to 1931.