George Edward Hilt (March 7, 1916 – October 2, 2012) was a businessman and philanthropist. Many of his financial gifts benefited Muskegon and Whitehall, Michigan. He developed out an art museum and a historic park open-air museum that cost millions of dollars. Hilt started his business career selling farm merchandise and equipment from a renovated grocery store. He developed this into the Quality Farm & Fleet store chain, which briefly became the United States' largest farm-store retailer. It had sales of over a billion dollars annually from its hundreds of retail outlet stores in several states.