Georges Barboteu (1 April 1924 in Algiers – 30 September 2006 in Paris) was a French horn player and composer. The son of a horn teacher at the Conservatoire d'Alger, he himself started playing the horn at the age of nine, and won first prize at eleven. He joined the Algiers Radio Symphony Orchestra at the age of fourteen and then the Orchestre national de France in 1948. He entered the conservatoire de Paris in 1950, where he received the honorary prize that same year. Most of his recordings were made by the Erato Records label.