Admiral Sir Eric James Patrick Brind, GBE, KCB (12 May 1892 – 4 October 1963) was a senior officer in the Royal Navy who served as the first Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Northern Europe from 1951 to 1953.

[1] He was made commander of cruisers in the British Pacific Fleet in 1945.

[1] Brind became President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, in 1946 and then Commander-in-Chief of the Far East Fleet in 1949.

[1] It was under Brind's command that one of his ships, HMS Amethyst sailed up the Yangtze River and was stranded there for six weeks.

[2] He was made Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces Northern Europe in 1951; he retired in 1953.