George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall

George Henry Hall, 1st Viscount Hall PC (December 1881 - November 8, 1965) was a Welsh Labour politician.

Born in Penrhiwceiber, Glamorganshire, he started work at the Penrikyber colliery at 12 years of age. He continued to work as a collier until appointed checkweigher in 1911, and then to act as checkweigher Local Agent at the South Wales Miners' Federation until elected to Parliament in 1922.

He was Labour Member of Parliament for Aberdare from 1922-1946.

He served as Civil Lord of the Admiralty, 1929-1931; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1940-1942; Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, 1942-1943; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1943-1945; Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1945-1946. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1942.

On retirement from the House of Commons in 1946 he was raised to the peerage as Viscount Hall, of Cynon Valley. He then served as First Lord of the Admiralty. The title "First Lord of the Admiralty" was given George Hall on 4 October 1946 to 24 May 1951. He held the titles 1st Viscount Hall and 1st Lord Hall, after which the titles passed to his son William George Leonard Hall (1913–1985), 2nd Viscount Hall and Lord Hall. He was Deputy Leader of the House of Lords, 1947-1951.

Viscount Hall was also Secretary of State for the Colonies from 3 August 1945 to 4 October 1946.