Major-General Sir Hugh Keppel Bethell KBE, CB, CMG, CVO, DSO (1882–1947) was a senior British Army officer.

Bethell was the eldest son of Col. Edward Bethell DSO CMG and his wife Gertrude, the daughter of Major General Eustace Hill.

[3] Aged just 36, he was the youngest British divisional commander of the 20th century.

[4] After the war he became military attaché to Washington, D.C. in 1919, commander of 2nd Rhine Brigade in April 1924 and Brigadier on the general staff at Northern Command in India in April 1928.

[6] Following his retirement he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1935 Birthday Honours.