George Washington Hopkins (February 22, 1804 – March 1, 1861) was a nineteenth-century United States politician, diplomat, lawyer, judge and teacher.

[1] He later taught school, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1834, commencing practice in Lebanon, Virginia.

President James Knox Polk appointed Hopkins as Chargé d'affaires to Portugal in 1847; he served as until 1849.

He returned to the House of Delegates as Speaker succeeding his brother Henry L. Hopkins from 1850 to 1852 and was a member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention in 1850 and 1851.

Hopkins served in the House of Delegates for a third time from 1859 until his death in Richmond, Virginia on March 1, 1861.