Georgi Velikov Panayotov (Bulgarian: Георги Великов Панайотов; born 1968) is a Bulgarian politician who was a minister in the Yanev II government, serving as Minister of Defence of Bulgaria.

[3] Born in the Bulgarian People's Republic, Panayotov graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations with a master's degree in politics.

From 1995 until 2000 he was the political officer of the Bulgarian embassy in Tirana, Albania, and then the deputy head of multilateral cooperation in the southeastern European department of the foreign ministry.

From 2002, Panayotov was the deputy chief of mission at the Bulgarian embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, until 2007, and in 2010 he was appointed as political officer and deputy chief of mission at the Bulgarian embassy in Washington, DC.

Along with his native Bulgarian, is fluent in English, Russian, German, and Albanian.