George Wildman Ball (* 21. Dezember 1909 in Des Moines, Iowa; † 26. Mai 1994 in New York City) war ein US-amerikanischer Jurist, Politiker und Diplomat.

Bekannt wurde er als Sprachrohr der Pazifismusbewegung gegen den Vietnamkrieg, als dieser in den 1960er Jahren eskalierte.

Während der Amtszeit von John F. Kennedy und Lyndon B. Johnson bekleidete er das Amt des Stellvertretenden Außenministers. Vom 26. Juni bis zum 25. September 1968 war er US-Botschafter bei der UNO.

• Ball, George W.: The Past Has Another Pattern: Memoirs. W. W. Norton & Company, 1983, ISBN 0393301427. 
• Ball, George W. and Douglas B.: The Passionate Attachment: America’s Involvement With Israel, 1947 to the Present. W. W. Norton & Company, 1992, ISBN 0393029336. 
• Dileo, David L.: George Ball, Vietnam, and the Rethinking of Containment. University of North Carolina Press, 1991, ISBN 0807842974. 
• Bill, James A.: George Ball: Behind the Scenes in U.S. Foreign Policy. Yale University Press, 1997. Fehler bei Vorlage * Parametername unbekannt (Vorlage:Cite book): "1"

• The Best and the Brightest

• Photo: George Ball
• Cold War International History Project's Cold War Files
• Bio at Northwestern University
• Bio at Montgomery Endowment
• Profile: George Ball, The Center for Cooperative Research
• Memorandum for the President from George Ball, "A Compromise Solution in South Vietnam"
• Memo from George Ball to McNamara
• Personal papers at National Archives Records
• George W. Ball. How to save Israel in spite of herself, Foreign Affairs, The Council on Foreign Relations, April 1977.
• George W. Ball. The Coming Crisis in Israeli-American Relations, Foreign Affairs, The Council on Foreign Relations, Winter 1979.
• George W. Ball. The conduct of American foreign policy, Foreign Affairs, The Council on Foreign Relations, 1980.
• James A. Bill. George Ball: Behind the Scenes in U.S. Foreign Policy
• Robert Dallek. George Ball: Behind the Scenes in U.S. Foreign Policy, The Washington Monthly, July 1997.
• Richard Curtiss. George Ball's Middle East views were muffled by U.S. media, Washington Report On Middle East Affairs, July 1994.
• William Engdahl. George Ball's role in the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Payvand News, March 10, 2006.
• Book review of biography on George Ball