Georges de Selve (1508 – 12 April 1541) was a French scholar, diplomat and ecclesiastic.

He was sent by King Francis I of France as ambassador to the Republic of Venice, Austria (in April 1540), to the Pope in Rome, to England, Germany and Spain.

He is the figure of the right in a picture by Hans Holbein the Younger, The Ambassadors, and Jean de Dinteville is the other one, which hangs in the National Gallery, London.

[2] De Selve was just 25 when Holbein painted him and he is wearing the vestments of a clergyman, who represent the interests of the Catholic Church, since he had just been appointed Bishop of Lavaur in France.

[3] He wrote on theology, studied with and was a patron of Eli Levita from 1534,[4] and was commissioned by the king to make translations.