George Peter Michael Varah (19 October 1944 – 2 April 2007) was a British international middle-distance runner and later a Chief Probation Officer.
Varah was educated at Raine's Foundation Grammar School for Boys in Stepney and at Loughborough College.
He became a member of the Great Britain athletics team in 1965, and ran the second leg in a 4 x 800m relay that broke the world record at Crystal Palace in 1966.
He was the longest-serving chief officer in the National Probation Service when he retired in 2004, having spent 35 years working in the criminal justice system.
He and a friend, Jim Higgins (also a probation officer), founded the Rugby Mayday Trust in Warwickshire.