George Nelson

George Nelson may refer to:

  • George Nelson (Lord Mayor of London), Lord Mayor of London
  • George Nelson (astronaut) (born 1950)
  • George Nelson (designer) (1908–1986), American
  • George Nelson, 1st Baron Nelson of Stafford (1887–1962), British engineer
  • George A. Nelson (1873-1962), 1936 Vice Presidential candidate of the Socialist Party of America
  • George B. Nelson (1876–1943), Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
  • George R. Nelson (1927–1992), American set decorator

Famous quotes containing the words george and/or nelson:

    “Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.”
    —17th century English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)

    “The victors and the vanquished then the storm it tossed and tore,
    As hard they strove, those worn-out men, upon that surly shore;
    Dead Nelson and his half-dead crew, his foes from near and far,
    Were rolled together on the deep that night at Trafalgar!”
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)