Apelles was a painter of ancient Greece.
Apelles may also refer to:
Apelles (gnostic), the founder of a Gnostic sect in the 2nd century Apelles of Heraklion, one of the Seventy Disciples "Apelles", a pseudonym used by Jesuit Christoph Scheiner in writing on sunspots Apelles, a synonym for the butterfly genus Glaucopsyche , an 1808 British Royal Navy ship Matthäus Apelles von Löwenstern (1594–1648), German psalmist, musician and statesman