| Honorific Prefix: | Admiral |
| Sir George Atkinson-Willes | |
| Birth Date: | 13 July 1847 |
| Allegiance: |  United Kingdom |
| Serviceyears: | 1861–1912 |
| Rank: | Admiral |
| Commands: | Home Fleet East Indies Station |
| Battles: | Somaliland Campaign |
| Awards: | Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath |
Admiral Sir George Lambart Atkinson-Willes, (13 July 1847 – 25 December 1921) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station.
Educated at Leamington College and at Burney's Royal Naval Academy in Gosport,[1] he joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1861[2] and took part in the Abyssinian Expedition in 1868 where he was second in command of the naval rocket brigade.
Promoted to Captain in 1886,[2] he commanded,,, and then . He was appointed commodore commanding the Training Squadron in 1895 and then commanded the Dockyard Reserve at Chatham from 1898.[1]
In 1901 he assumed the additional surname of Willes in compliance with the will of his uncle Admiral Sir George Ommanney Willes.[1] The same year he was promoted to rear admiral on 19 February 1901, and in May 1902 he became Second-in-Command of the Home Fleet.[3] He hoisted his flag on board the pre-dreadnought battleship on 7 May 1902, as his flagship during the Coronation Fleet Review for King Edward VII.[4] After the end of the manoeuvres, he transferred on 16 September to, which became flagship to the Home Squadron, the permanent sea-going nucleus of the Home Fleet.[5]
In 1903 he was appointed Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station.[1] He led a squadron of three ships during the Somaliland Campaign in 1904, supplying landing parties that stormed and captured the forts at Illig, his ships' guns supporting the attack.[6] In June 1905 in recognition of his service in Somaliland he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.
Atkinson-Willes was promoted vice admiral in 1905 and admiral in 1908. He retired in July 1912 and died in December 1921, aged 74.[6]