George Ball (diplomat)
 George Wildman Ball (December 21 1909 – May 26 1994) was an American diplomat and banker. He was a protégé of Adlai Stevenson and played a major role in his unsuccessful presidential campaigns of 1952 and 1956. He served in the top rank of the States Department 1961-66 where he is most remembered as the only dissenter against the escalation of the Vietnam war. He refused to go public with his doubts which were based on realistic calculations that South Vietnam was doomed.