| Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
| George Nowlan | |
| Office: | Minister of Finance |
| Primeminister: | John Diefenbaker |
| Term Start: | 9 August 1962 |
| Term End: | 21 April 1963 |
| Predecessor: | Donald Fleming |
| Successor: | Walter L. Gordon |
| Office1: | Minister of National Revenue |
| Primeminister1: | John Diefenbaker |
| Term Start1: | 21 June 1957 |
| Term End1: | 8 August 1962 |
| Predecessor1: | James Joseph McCann |
| Successor1: | Hugh John Flemming |
| Riding2: | Digby—Annapolis—Kings Annapolis—Kings (1950-1953) |
| Parliament2: | Canadian |
| Term Start2: | 19 June 1950 |
| Term End2: | 8 November 1965 |
| Predecessor2: | Angus Elderkin |
| Term Start3: | 13 December 1948 |
| Term End3: | 27 June 1949 |
| Predecessor3: | James Lorimer Ilsley |
| Successor3: | Riding dissolved |
| Assembly4: | Nova Scotia House of |
| Constituency Am4: | Kings |
| Term Start4: | 25 June 1925 |
| Term End4: | 22 August 1933 |
| Predecessor4: | James Sealy, John Alexander McDonald |
| Successor4: | John Alexander McDonald |
| Birth Date: | 14 August 1898 |
| Birth Place: | Havelock, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Death Place: | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Party: | Progressive Conservative |
| Children: | 4, including Pat |
George Clyde Nowlan (14 August 1898 - 31 May 1965) was a Canadian Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister. A member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, he served as Minister of Finance in the government of John Diefenbaker, and was also responsible for the CBC.
Nowlan was a soldier in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War. After the war ended, he returned to the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia and attended Acadia University to study for a Bachelor of Arts, graduating in 1920. He then studied law at Dalhousie University.
Nowlan was an MLA in the Nova Scotia Legislature in the 1920s, and was always known for his reputation as a hard worker and a Party Man. He served a term as the Progressive Conservative Party's president. While serving as Minister of National Revenue in 1962, he forbid Customs to censor or ban entrance to any publication unless a Canadian court had already ruled it to be "obscene", rather than using their own discretion. Five years later, this was overturned.[1]
There is a George Clyde Nowlan fonds at Library and Archives Canada.[2]
His son Pat Nowlan later became a Progressive Conservative (and later Independent Progressive Conservative) MP in Nowlan's riding of Kings County.