Brian Brinkley MBE (born 28 December 1953) is an English former competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain in the Olympic Games, FINA world championships and European championships, and England in the Commonwealth Games, during the 1970s.

[1] Brinkley was a member of the British national team at the 1974 European Aquatics Championships in Vienna, winning a pair of silver medals in the men's 200-metre butterfly and as a member of the British team in the 4x100-metre medley relay.

[2] When Christchurch, New Zealand hosted the 1974 British Commonwealth Games, he swam for England in six events, winning medals in all of them.

A year later in Montreal, Quebec, at the 1976 Summer Olympics, Brinkley competed in four events.

In individual competition, he advanced to the event final of the 200-metre butterfly and came sixth.