George Parrish Tebbetts (1828 – January 9, 1909) was an American politician from California. Tebbetts was born in Concord, New Hampshire and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1848, where he studied medicine. With the California gold rush he sailed to San Francisco. While crossing the Isthmus of Panama, he cared for people suffering from yellow fever. In 1852 the city was bankrupt. The city charter was abolished and city administration was performed by a board of trustees with no mayor, operated by the state. Later, he moved in with his son Nathan in San Francisco where he died 1909.