Lieutenant General Sir Brian Charles Hannam Kimmins, KBE, CB, DL (30 July 1899 – 15 November 1979) was a British military commander who served as the General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland District.

[4] Kimmins served in the Second World War, initially as a General Staff Officer with the British Expeditionary Force in France before becoming an instructor at the Staff College in 1940,[4] and with it came the acting rank of lieutenant colonel (which was made temporary in November).

[5] He was then, after being promoted to the acting rank of colonel and brigadier in December 1941,[5] appointed Deputy Director of Military Training at the War Office in London from December 1941 until May 1942 when he became a Brigadier on the General Staff of Southern Command from May until November.

[4] He was finally Assistant Chief of Staff at the Headquarters of the Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia in 1945.

[4][5] He died at the age of 80 the Somerset Nuffield Hospital in Taunton on 15 November 1979, leaving a wife and three children.