George A. Bournoutian (Armenian: Ջորջ Բուռնութեան; Persian: جورج بورنوتیان‎; 25 September 1943 – 22 August 2021) was an Iranian-American professor, historian, and author of Armenian descent. He was a professor of history and the author of over 30 books, particularly focusing on Armenian history, Iran and the Caucasus. He taught Iranian history at UCLA, and Armenian history at Columbia University, Tufts University, New York University, Rutgers University, the University of Connecticut, Ramapo College, and Glendale Community College and Russian and Soviet history at Iona College.Bournoutian was one of the 40 editors of the Encyclopaedia Iranica.

George Bournoutian was born in Isfahan, Iran into an Armenian family. He grew up in Iran, and he received his high school diploma from the Andisheh (Don Bosco) institution in Tehran. He immigrated to the United States in 1964. He received his M.A. degree in 1971 and his Ph.D. in history with a focus on Armenian and Iranian studies  in 1976 at UCLA. His dissertation was titled "Eastern Armenia on the Eve of the Russian Conquest," which was published as a book in 1982 and republished in 1992.

He was a member of the Middle Eastern Studies Association, Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Iranian Studies Association, Society for Armenian Studies, and Association Internationale des Etudes Armeniennes.

George Bournoutian was also an avid world traveler. He was fluent in Armenian, Persian, Russian, and Polish, and had a reading command of French. He accompanied his senior and graduate students on annual trips to Armenia and Transcaucasia, the Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia, Australia, South and Central America and Antarctica.

• Recipient NDEA Title VI Fellowship (1973–1975)
• Recipient of IREX Fellowship, USSR (1973–1974)
• Recipient of Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship (Columbia University, 1978–1980)
• Ranked top merit award seven years at Iona College
• Recipient of twenty publication and research grants (1990–2010)
• Recipient of numerous travel and research grants from Iona College