Sir Henry Armand Bland (28 December 1909 – 8 November 1997) was a senior Australian public servant.

[3] He studied law at the University of Sydney, graduating with honours, and was admitted as a solicitor of the NSW Supreme Court in 1935.

[7] During his short time as head of the department, Bland initiated a broad and intense program of administrative reform,[7] including a "rolling" five year defence program that intended to make allowances for Australian defence needs over a five-year period, expecting to shorten the waiting time for hardware by having service departments make submissions for their needs earlier than in the past.

[8] In 1971-2, he undertook a review of land transport in Victoria for the state government, which resulted in the Bland Report recommending closure of many Victorian Railways branch lines and passenger services.

[9] In July 1976 Bland was appointed Chairman of the ABC,[1] a position in which Dr. Earle Hackett had been acting since the death of Prof Richard Downing in November 1975.