George Ryland (1855 - 19 October 1920) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

After his time in the Queensland Parliament he was based in Port Darwin, as the Director of Lands for two years and then he worked in Brisbane as a valuator with the Public Curator's Office in 1915.

[3] Ryland started in politics as an alderman in the Borough of Gympie Council from 1892 until 1900 and was Mayor of the town in 1899.

[1] In 1899, Ryland, a member of the Labour Party, won one of the two positions for the seat of Gympie[4] The other member for Gympie after the election was Andrew Fisher, Prime Minister of Australia on three separate occasions.

Ryland served the people of Gympie until his defeat at the 1912 Queensland state election by the Ministerialist candidate and future Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives, George Mackay.