| Ken O'Keefe | |
| Birth Date: | 18 August 1953 |
| Birth Place: | Milford, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Player Years1: | 1972–1974 |
| Player Team1: | John Carroll |
| Player Positions: | Wide receiver |
| Coach Years1: | 1976–1977 |
| Coach Team1: | New Haven (assistant) |
| Coach Years2: | 1978–1984 |
| Coach Team2: | Worcester Academy (MA) |
| Coach Years3: | 1985 |
| Coach Team3: | Fort Worth Country Day (TX) |
| Coach Years4: | 1986–1989 |
| Coach Team4: | Allegheny (OC) |
| Coach Years5: | 1990–1997 |
| Coach Team5: | Allegheny |
| Coach Years6: | 1998 |
| Coach Team6: | Fordham |
| Coach Years7: | 1999–2011 |
| Coach Team7: | Iowa (OC/QB) |
| Coach Years8: | 2012–2015 |
| Coach Team8: | Miami Dolphins (WR) |
| Coach Years9: | 2016 |
| Coach Team9: | Miami Dolphins (senior analyst) |
| Coach Years10: | 2017–2021 |
| Coach Team10: | Iowa (QB) |
| Overall Record: | 83–17–1 (college) |
| Tournament Record: | 5–5 (NCAA D-III playoffs) |
| Championships: | 1 NCAA Division III (1990) 6 NCAC (1990–1991, 1993–1994, 1996–1997) |
| Awards: | AFCA Division III Coach of the Year (1990) 4x NCAC Coach of the Year |
Ken O'Keefe (born August 18, 1953) is an American football coach and former player. He most recently served as the quarterbacks coach for the Iowa Hawkeyes football team, a position he held from January 2017 through February 2022. O'Keefe served as the offensive coordinator for the Iowa Hawkeyes football team from 1999 to 2011. He was the head football coach at the Allegheny College from 1990 to 1997 and at Fordham University in 1998, compiling a career college football record of 83–17–1. In O'Keefe's first season at Allegheny, in 1990, his team went 13–0–1 and won the NCAA Division III Football Championship.
While coaching at Allegheny College, O'Keefe created an exchange program between Russian and American middle school football players. In recognition he received the Dodge Award for language advocacy from the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in 1998.[1]
On February 3, 2012, O'Keefe resigned from the Iowa program to take a job with the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL). Former Dolphins head coach Joe Philbin spent several years on Iowa's staff, coaching the offensive line from 1999 to 2002. O'Keefe returned to Iowa prior to the 2017 season as its quarterbacks coach. He stepped down from his role after the 2021 season, taking an off-field role in the program.[2] [3]