John Georges (Greek: Υιάννης Γεωργής) (born October 16, 1960) is an American businessman from New Orleans, who owns Louisiana's two largest newspapers and online news sites.

His father was a Greek immigrant who put John to work at the age of eleven sweeping the warehouse for the family business.

He has served as a member of over 25 boards - including the University of New Orleans Foundation, LSU Medical Foundation, and Tulane President's Council, the National WWII Museum, the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, St. Augustine High School, the Hellenic Initiative and more.

Imperial Trading is a wholesale grocery company that distributes goods ranging from candy to health and beauty products.

When Georges joined the Imperial Trading Company it was a $29 million business; today, he claims the estimated sales at nearly $1 billion annually.

In March 2013, Georges signed a letter of intent to purchase The Advocate, whose circulation in 2013 is 98,000 (daily) and 125,000 (Sunday) as a result of its entry and 20,000 subscriptions in the New Orleans market following the decision of The Times-Picayune to limit print publications to 3 days a week.

Georges named Dan Shea as general manager of The Advocate and Peter Kovacs as the editor.

The Times Picayune - New Orleans Advocate's website, Nola.com, reaches over 90 million unique worldwide readers every year.

The Advocate was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2019 for local reporting on the lack of unanimous vote for criminal convictions.

John Georges came in third place in the 2007 Louisiana gubernatorial election, despite having never run for public office previously.

Republican Bobby Jindal, making his second bid for governor, won outright in the primary with 54 percent of the vote.

[11] Veteran Louisiana political reporter John Hill notes that Georges made the largest known buy of television ads in the 2007 election.