Thayil Jacob Sony George (born 7 May 1928) is an Indian writer and biographer who received a Padma Bhushan award in 2011 in the field of literature and education.

T. J. S. George has achieved distinction internationally as a professional author, serious political columnist and biographer with a series of major books.

He moved through the International Press Institute, The Searchlight, and the Far Eastern Economic Review to become the founding editor of Asiaweek (Hong Kong).

While heading a Bihar daily, he earned the displeasure of the chief minister and became the first editor to be charged with sedition in free India.

During a stint abroad, the highlight of which was the founding of Asiaweek in Hong Kong with himself as its Editor, he incurred the wrath of some of Southeast Asia's rulers.