Tom Kelley (December 12, 1914 – January 8, 1984) was an American photographer. Tom photographed the Hollywood celebrities throughout the 1940s and 1950s in Hollywood. David O. Selznick and Samuel Goldwyn retained Tom to take promotional photos of their stars and starlets for magazine covers and advertising. A few of his most famous subjects have been Gary Cooper, Greta Garbo, James Cagney, Clark Gable, Winston Churchill, Bob Hope, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Jack Benny, John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Franklin D. Roosevelt and, of course, Marilyn Monroe, with and without clothes.
He is best known for his iconic 1949 nude photographs of Marilyn Monroe, one of which was distributed widely as calendar art and was featured in the inaugural issue of Playboy magazine in 1953.
Kelley was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He learned photography as an apprentice in a New York photo studio, and then worked for the Associated Press and Town & Country magazine. After coming to California in 1935, Kelley established a photography studio in Hollywood and produced promotional photographs of motion picture stars. Later, Kelley's business shifted to commercial and advertising photography.
Kelley served on the panel of judges at the Miss Universe 1952 and Miss Universe 1956 pageants. He appeared in the 1966 documentary film The Legend of Marilyn Monroe.