Sir Girija Shankar Bajpai KCSI KBE CIE (3 April 1891 – 5 December 1954) was an Indian civil servant, diplomat and Governor.

[1] The secretary of a Government of India delegation to South Africa in 1926, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in that year's Birthday Honours List.

[1] From November 1930 to January 1931, Bajpai was a member of the British Indian delegation to the First Round Table Conference in London, and was promoted to the rank of collector and magistrate in October 1931.

[6] The American diplomat Vincent Sheean wrote in his book Nehru – The Years of Power that a technical error by the team headed by Girija Bajpai led to the Kashmir issue being considered a dispute rather than an act of aggression by Pakistan.

He lay in state in the audience hall of Raj Bhavan, his body draped with the tricolour as citizens, political leaders and consular officials filed past.

Later that day, with thousands of people lining the streets, his body was conveyed to the crematorium in a gun carriage drawn by detachments of the army, navy, air force and the Mumbai Police.

He was cremated with full ceremonial honours, including a 17-gun salute, fired as his eldest son, Uma Shankar Bajpai, lit the funeral pyre.

The (then) Vice President of India, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, delivered a eulogy in which he said Bajpai's life had been "an example of devotion and dedication" which would be long remembered.