Sir Colin Frederick Figures KCMG OBE (1 July 1925 – 8 December 2006) was Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (known as MI6) from 1981 to 1985.

During this time he had oversight of the supply of human intelligence information, including Argentine positions and their stocks of Exocet missiles, to the UK Government during the Falklands War.

[1] While there, he also founded the Woodpeckers, a combined Oxford and Cambridge touring rugby team.

[1] He moved from Eastern bloc espionage in 1973 to supervise SIS activities in Northern Ireland.

[1] The following year, SIS was involved in the Falklands War, seeking to prevent Argentina obtaining stocks of Exocet missiles to be carried by their Super Etendard attack aircraft.