Kevin Robert Darling is a former New Zealand international lawn bowler.

[1] He was born in Dunedin, New Zealand on 14 February 1947.

He won a bronze medal in the pairs and a bronze medal in the fours at the 1980 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Melbourne.

[2] Ten years later he won a bronze medal at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in the fours with Peter Shaw, Phil Skoglund and Stewart McConnell.

[6] In 1990, Darling was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.