George Ryves (c. 1562 – 31 May 1613) was an English academic administrator at the University of Oxford.

He was born in Dorset, second of the eight sons of John Ryves (1532-1587) of Damory Court near Blandford and Elizabeth Marvyn, daughter of Sir John Marvyn of Fonthill Gifford, Wiltshire, and his first wife Jane Baskerville. He came from a gifted clan: of his brothers, Sir Thomas Ryves was an acknowledged expert on maritime law, and another brother, Sir William Ryves, had a highly successful career as a Law Officer and High Court judge in Ireland. Bruno Ryves, Dean of Windsor was a cousin. His widowed mother made her home with George in New College, and died at a ripe age in 1609.

Ryves was educated at Winchester College, where he gained a scholarship aged 12 in 1574,^[1] and New College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1579, graduating B.A. 1582, M.A. 1586, B.D. 1594, D.D. 1599.^[2]

In the church, Ryves became chaplain to the Bishop of Winchester and canon of Winchester Cathedral in 1598, and held the following livings:^[2]

• Rector of Blandford St Mary, Dorset (1589)
• Rector of Alverstoke, Hampshire (1591)
• Rector of Stanton St. John, Oxfordshire (1600)
• Rector of Colerne, Wiltshire (1606)
• Rector of Old Alresford, Hampshire (1608)

Ryves was elected Warden (head) of New College, Oxford, in 1599, a post he held until his death in 1613.^[3] During his time as Warden of New College, he was also Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University from 1601 until 1602.^[4][5]

Ryves was involved in the translation of the King James Version. Gustavus Paine notes that a letter from Thomas Bilson to Thomas Lake refers to Ryves as "one of the overseers of that part of the New Testament that is being translated out of Greek".^[6]