Lieutenant-General Sir Gordon Nevil Macready, 2nd Baronet, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO, MC (5 April 1891 – 17 October 1956) was a British Army officer who served as Assistant Chief of the Imperial General Staff during the Second World War.

[1][2][3] Promoted to lieutenant on 21 December 1912,[4] Macready served on the Western Front during the First World War becoming Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General (AA&QMG) for the 66th (2nd East Lancashire) Division in 1917.

[6][3] Attending the Staff College, Camberley from 1923 to 1924, he was appointed Assistant Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence in 1926, which was followed by attendance at the Imperial Defence College in 1933, Deputy Director of Staff Duties at the War Office in 1936 and Head of the British Military Mission to Egypt in 1938.

[8] He served in the Second World War as Assistant Chief of the Imperial General Staff from October 1940[9] and as Head of the British Army mission in Washington D. C. from 1942 until his retirement in 1946.

[11] In 1920 he married Elisabeth Pauline Sabine Marie de Noailles; they had one son, Sir Nevil Macready, 3rd Bt.