Colonel Claude Bayfield Stokes CIE DSO OBE (27 October 1875 – 7 December 1948) was an Indian Army officer and diplomat. He served in India and was an intelligence officer with Dunsterforce during the First World War.Stokes served with the 3rd Skinner's Horse, a unit of the Indian Army. Stokes was appointed military attaché to Tehran from 1907-1911. During this period he supplied Edward Granville Browne with sensitive intelligence.