George Kearsley Shaw[1] (10 December 1751 – 22 July 1813) was an English botanist and zoologist.

Shaw was born at Bierton, Buckinghamshire, and was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, receiving his M.A.

Medical and anatomical material was sent to the museum at the Royal College of Surgeons, but many of the stuffed animals and birds had deteriorated and had to be burnt.

Shaw's library of natural history books and some of his specimens and equipment were sold at auction by Leigh & Sotheby in London on 9 March 1814 (and two following days); a copy of the catalogue is in Cambridge University Library (shelfmark Munby.c.162(8)).

Shaw published one of the first English descriptions with scientific names of several Australian animals in his "Zoology of New Holland" (1794).