Sir George King (12 April 1840 - 12 February 1909), was a British botanist appointed superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta in 1871, and the first Director of the Botanical Survey of India from 1890. King was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1901.
Species described by him include the climbing fig Ficus pantoniana from New Guinea and northern Australia.[1] This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation King when citing a botanical name.[2]