George Bailey (1919 in Chicago – 2001 in Munich) was an American journalist and writer who spent almost 60 years in Europe, most of them in Germany. He is best known for his book Germans, The Biography of an Obsession, in which he interweaves the political, the historical and his own personal experience of 45 years of living and working in Germany. His other fields of expertise were the Communist Bloc, in particular the Soviet Union, and East–West relationships.