James Francis Kelley (July 27, 1902 – September 11, 1996) was an American Roman Catholic monsignor who was one of the nation's youngest college presidents when he was appointed as a 33-year-old in 1936 to lead Seton Hall College and grew the school's enrollment tenfold before he left the position in 1949, shortly before it became Seton Hall University. Decades after his retirement, he would tell a reporter that he had been responsible for helping Amelia Earhart to live under an assumed name for decades after it had been believed she had crashed and died while flying across the Pacific Ocean.