George Henry Ham (23 August 1847 – 16 April 1926) was a Canadian journalist, writer, office holder, and lobbyist. Ham was born in Trent Port (modern Trenton, Ontario) in the Province of Canada to Eliza Anne Eleanor Clute and John Vandal Ham, a country doctor of Loyalist stock who later took up law. Ham rejected his father's wish that he become a lawyer to pursue journalism, first at the Whitby Chronicle in 1865. He became editor of the Whitby Gazette, where he capitalized on interest in the Franco-Prussian War by issuing it as a four-page daily in mid-1870. He commissioned a young John Wilson Bengough to provide a serialized novel for it, whose popular reception encouraged Bengough to devote himself to a journalism career.