John Cassidy (1 January 1860 – 19 July 1939) was an Irish sculptor and painter who worked in Manchester, England, and created many public sculptures.

Cassidy was born in the townland of Littlewood Commons, Slane, County Meath, Ireland, on 1 January 1860.

On 7 June 2020, the Colston statue was pulled from its plinth by Black Lives Matter protestors and pushed into Bristol Harbour.

[11] Works by John Cassidy include:[11][12] In the aftermath of World War I, Cassidy was commissioned to sculpt a number of war memorials for towns around Britain, including memorials in Eccles, Heaton Chapel/Heaton Moor, Skipton, Stourbridge and Colwyn Bay.

At the end of his life, Cassidy was living in Fallowfield in south Manchester, at 10 Albion Road.

While in hospital, Cassidy continued to sculpt and was working on a bust of Pope Pius XII when he died there on 19 July 1939, aged 79.

A 1900 portrait of John Cassidy by Reginald Barber is in the collection of Manchester Art Gallery.