Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth Garside (1913–1983) was a librarian, information theorist and World War II British Intelligence Corps officer. Born in Bradford in 1913, he was educated at Bradford Grammar School and Leeds University. He became an Assistant Librarian at Leeds University in 1937, before going to war in 1939. He was commissioned into the Intelligence Corps in 1941, and served in the Headquarters, 21 Army Group, in 1945, where he was instrumental in establishing The Intelligence Library of the Control Commission for Germany in Bad Oeynhausen (later moved to Herford).