Oliver George Hutchinson (6 May 1891 – April 1944) was a Northern Irish businessman who played a key role in popularising John Logie Baird's invention of television.

Hutchinson was later joint managing director of the Baird Television Development Company and was present in New York when the first trans-Atlantic broadcast was made in 1928.

[1] He was the son of Samuel Corbett Hutchinson of Combermere House, Hillsborough, County Down, who had a successful business in the motor engineering trade.

By coincidence, both men became involved in the soap industry, with Hutchinson's "Rapid Washer" product competing with Baird's "Speedy Cleaner".

[1] The two men met by chance on The Strand in 1922, when Hutchinson recognised Baird from their apprentice days, and they took tea together.

[8] With English journalist Sydney Moseley, Hutchinson helped generate interest in the invention by writing positive press articles predicting it would become as successful as radio.

[10] Hutchinson appeared in the first successful photograph taken of a television picture, made by Lafayette Ltd and published in The Electrician in June 1926.