Sir George Whitecross Paton (16 August 1902 – 16 June 1985) was an Australian legal scholar and Vice-Chancellor of Melbourne University from 1951 until 1968.

He won the Rhodes Scholarship for Victoria (Australia) in 1925, which allowed him to continue his studies at Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1926 to 1929.

After retirement he was president of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Inc. (ANZSOC) from 1969 to 1971 Paton's major published work, A Text-Book of Jurisprudence, appeared in 1946 and went through further editions.

Its object was to enable Australia to profit from the experience of other countries in introducing and controlling television.

The enquiry considered the numbers of national and commercial channels to be established, the economics involved and standards to be observed.