diff --git a/package/python-tornado/python-tornado.hash b/package/python-tornado/python-tornado.hash
index ee4080fe75..662db6f258 100644
--- a/package/python-tornado/python-tornado.hash
+++ b/package/python-tornado/python-tornado.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # md5 from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tornado/json, sha256 locally computed
-md5	b4816ea209118667ffc52ce9ff06ac85  tornado-4.4.2.tar.gz
-sha256	2898f992f898cd41eeb8d53b6df75495f2f423b6672890aadaf196ea1448edcc  tornado-4.4.2.tar.gz
+md5	838687d20923360af5ab59f101e9e02e  tornado-4.5.1.tar.gz
+sha256	db0904a28253cfe53e7dedc765c71596f3c53bb8a866ae50123320ec1a7b73fd  tornado-4.5.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/package/python-tornado/python-tornado.mk b/package/python-tornado/python-tornado.mk
index e512e60fa1..6e6167564f 100644
--- a/package/python-tornado/python-tornado.mk
+++ b/package/python-tornado/python-tornado.mk
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-PYTHON_TORNADO_VERSION = 4.4.2
+PYTHON_TORNADO_VERSION = 4.5.1
 PYTHON_TORNADO_SOURCE = tornado-$(PYTHON_TORNADO_VERSION).tar.gz
-PYTHON_TORNADO_SITE = https://pypi.python.org/packages/1e/7c/ea047f7bbd1ff22a7f69fe55e7561040e3e54d6f31da6267ef9748321f98
+PYTHON_TORNADO_SITE = https://pypi.python.org/packages/df/42/a180ee540e12e2ec1007ac82a42b09dd92e5461e09c98bf465e98646d187
 PYTHON_TORNADO_LICENSE = Apache-2.0
 PYTHON_TORNADO_SETUP_TYPE = setuptools