Sir George Villiers (c. 1544 – 4 January 1606) was an English knight and country gentleman.

He was the father of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, a favourite of James I, and of several other sons who became prominent at court, establishing the Villiers family at the heart of royal circles for several generations.

George Villiers, born about 1544,[1] was the eldest son of William Villiers of Brooksby, Leicestershire, and Colett, widow of Richard Beaumont of Coleorton, Leicestershire, and daughter and heir of Richard Clarke of Willoughby, Warwickshire.

[2] He was High Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1591, and was elected a Knight of the Shire for the county from 1604 until his death.

[1] Villiers married firstly Audrey Saunders (d.1587), the daughter and heir of William Saunders (d. 14 July 1582) of Harrington, Northamptonshire[1] and Frances Zouche, the daughter of William Zouche of Bulwick, Northamptonshire, son of John la Zouche, 7th Baron Zouche (c.1440-1527) of Harringworth,[3] who fought for Richard III at Bosworth,[4] by whom he had two sons and four daughters:[1] Villiers married secondly, about 1590, his "beautiful but penniless first cousin by the half-blood", Mary Beaumont (c. 1570 – 1632), daughter of Anthony Beaumont of Glenfield, Leicestershire, with whom he had three sons and a daughter:[2] According to Thomson,[11] Sir George is the ancestor of sixteen British prime ministers: see also Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom