Jean-Pierre Velly (14 September 1943, Audierne, France – 26 May 1990) was a Breton etcher, draftsman and painter.
In 1967 he moved to Rome for three years to work under Balthus at Villa Medici, the French Academy.
From 1970 he lived at Formello, a small village near Rome, where he worked for the next twenty years.
In 1971 he began exhibiting at Rome's Don Chisciotte Gallery, and started working in silverpoint, and painting in watercolor, particularly for the series Velly pour Corbière (1976–1978) from the poems of Tristan Corbiere, and Bestiaire Perdu (1978–1980).
In 1990, he was the victim of a boating accident and drowned in Lake Bracciano; his body was never recovered.