title: Apelles (disambiguation)
text: # Apelles (disambiguation)
  
  Apelles was a painter of ancient Greece.
  
  Apelles may alsorefer 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
  * HMS Apelles, an 1808 British Royal Navy ship
  * Matthäus Apelles von Löwenstern (1594–1648), German psalmist, musician and statesman
  