George Stephen Nestor Luckyj (born Юрій Луцький, transcribed: Yuriy Lutskyyyn; 1919 — 22 November 2001) was a scholar of Ukrainian literature, who greatly contributed to the awareness of Ukrainian literature in the English-speaking world and to the continuation of legitimate scholarship on the subject during the post-war period.

Luckyj was born in 1919 in the village Yanchyn, today Ivanivka [uk], close to Lviv.

After the Soviet occupation of Western Ukraine, formerly Poland, in 1939, his father was taken by the NKVD and eventually died in a concentration camp.

In 1943, Luckyj joined the British army and worked as a Russian interpreter in occupied Germany.

Luckyj was well known for his translations of Ukrainian literature, which have exposed large new audiences to its depth and quality.