Sir George Dyson (1883–1964) was a well-known English musician and composer. His son is the physicist Freeman Dyson and his grandchildren are Freeman's children the science historian George Dyson and his sister Esther Dyson. He was born in Halifax, Yorkshire on May 28, 1883 and died in Winchester September 28, 1964. He attended the Royal College of Music and was a winner of the Mendelssohn Travelling Scholarship which enabled him to spend some years in Italy and Germany.