Charles Eric Whitely (12 January 1904 – 12 September 1953) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond and Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).Whitely joined Richmond from the Hume Weir club in Albury in 1925, making his solitary appearance in the senior team in their loss to Carlton.
He transferred to Hawthorn for the 1926 VFL season and scored a goal on debut against St Kilda but also fractured a rib and never again played a VFL match.
He later transferred to Prahran in the Victorian Football Association.In 1930 he married Thelma Sedgman and they lived in Melbourne until his death in 1953.