Brian Patrick Kelly (born January 14, 1976 in Las Vegas, Nevada) is an American football cornerback for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the second round of the 1998 NFL Draft. He played college football at Southern California.
Kelly earned a Super Bowl ring with the Buccaneers in Super Bowl XXXVIII.
Brian Kelly is a British television director. He has worked on several high-profile British television drama series, including Sea of Souls, Taggart, Monarch of the Glen and Holby City. In 2006 he took charge of directing the first block of episodes of the Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood.
Brian Kelly is the artist for Baghdad Express, Francis and the Vegas Tramps, and the mini-comic Some Other Day. He is also a painter and a tattooist. He lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota for several years, attending the Minneapolis College of Art & Design, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2002. He also began tattooing in Minneapolis, starting the Brian Kelly Army in early 2003. He then moved to Ireland, where he attended the post-graduate course at The Burren College of Art, in Co. Clare, graduating with a Master of Fine Arts awarded by the National University of Ireand - Galway in 2007. His current whereabouts are unknown.
Brian Kelly (born March 27, 1956 in Arcadia, California) was a Canadian Football League receiver for the Edmonton Eskimos who, in just nine years from 1979-1987 caught 575 passes for 11,169 yards and 97 touchdowns. Kelly was a member of 5 Grey Cup Championship teams in Edmonton. Kelly was the number 1 target of Eskimos Quarterback Warren Moon in the early 80's. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame. Kelly was voted one of the CFL's top 50 players (#20) in a poll conducted by Canadian sports network TSN.
Brian Kelly (born October 25, 1961 in Everett, Massachusetts) is the head football coach at the University of Cincinnati. He was named Cincinnati's head coach on December 3, 2006. Prior to Cincinnati he was the head coach at Central Michigan University, where he had a 19-16 record over 3 seasons and at Grand Valley State University where he had a record of 118-35-2 in 13 seasons, including 103-22-2 in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. He led the Grand Valley State Lakers to the Division II national championships in 2002 and 2003. Coach Kelly has a wife (Paqui) and 3 children (Patrick, Grace, and Kenzel).
Brian Kelly (born 3 November, 1978 in York, England) is an international chess player.
Although born in England, he moved to Limerick, Republic of Ireland when he was 2 years old, and later to Belfast, Northern Ireland when he was 12. Both his parents are however Irish. As such he is able to compete for Ireland in international competitions.
He attained the title of International Master in 1998. His current FIDE rating is 2480, with a highest rating of 2504 achieved in July 2005.
He has won the Irish Chess Championship twice, outright in 1995 and jointly in 2007. In 1994 he won a Gold Medal at the Chess Olympiad playing on Board 6 for Ireland, as well as sharing first place in the Ulster Chess Championship. . As of September 2006 he is rated as the strongest native Irish Chess player, although, could be placed behind others such as Alexander McDonnell on the all time list. He has captained both the Cambridge University and Methodist College Belfast teams during his career, and holds the record for the highest ever score obtained by an Irish player in the British Chess Championship.
Brian is also a Go player, and has achieved the rank of second kyu whilst playing in Britain. This makes him one of the strongest Irish Go players.
Brian Kelly (b. Dec 27, 1980 in West Chester, Pennsylvania) is a professional lacrosse player. He plays for the San Francisco Dragons of Major League Lacrosse (MLL). He played college lacrosse for the Whittier College Poets in Los Angeles. Kelly attended high school at Downingtown High School in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, graduating in 1999.
Detroit-born TV actor Brian Kelly was a Valentine's Day baby, the son of Harry F. Kelly who was elected governor of Michigan (1944-1947) and served as a justice on the Michigan Supreme Court. Brian joined the Marine Corps. during the Korean War and subsequently attended the University of Michigan Law School with the intent of pursuing a political career like his father, but it only lasted a year. During college he found work as a male model and later broke into the business in Detroit with radio and TV commercials. A talent agent spotted him and in the late 50s the dark-haired, extremely handsome actor decided to try his luck in Hollywood. He found some nominal parts coming his way on such series as "Adventures in Paradise," "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "The Rifleman," among others, but nothing that advanced his career significantly. He appeared regularly on two TV short-lived series - the detective drama "21 Beacon Street" (1959) and the high-speed adventure series "Straightaway" (1961) before nabbing his most recognizable role as game life ranger Porter Ricks on the popular aquatic series "Flipper" (1964). Although Brian took a back seat to the scene-stealing antics of the titular dolphin and the two actors (Luke Halpin and Tommy Norden) playing his sons, fans admired the actor's widower character on the series who provided a strong moral fiber to his children. The success of the show, which was filmed in Miami and the Bahamas, led to a brief movie career, including a lead in Around the World Under the Sea (1966), which seemed in keeping with his underwater expertise. In 1970, Brian was involved in a serious motorcycle accident which left his right arm and leg paralyzed. He subsequently won a legal settlement ($750,000), but the severe impairment cost him his on-camera career. Undaunted, he used his settlement money to produce films, serving as executive producer of the popular Harrison Ford (I) starrer Blade Runner (1982) and associate producer of Cities of the Wild (1996). He first married gorgeous, aspiring blonde actress Laura Devon (I) in 1962. Both met while living in Detroit and married while climbing up the Hollywood ladder. The union ended four years later. He then married Valerie Ann Romero in 1972, with whom he had a daughter Hallie in 1975 and a son Devin in 1980. Brian died of pneumonia in Voorhees, New Jersey, just a few days before his 74th birthday in 2005.
