John Kelly (17 January 1932 – 29 December 2016) was a boxer from Northern Ireland who was Irish, British, and European bantamweight champion in the 1950s.

He finished as runner-up in the Irish bantamweight final and went on to win a silver medal at the European Amateur Boxing Championships in Milan in May 1951.

His next fight came in October 1953, when he challenged for Peter Keenan's British and European titles at the King's Hall, Belfast.

He followed this in June with a points win over Aime Devisch,[8] but in August was knocked out in the first round by Teddy Peckham.

Kelly returned in 1957 with an eighth round knockout of Teddy Barker, but this proved to be his final fight.