Gerard Stapleton (born 1958) is an Irish former hurler.
At club level he played with Borris–Ileigh and was also a member of the Tipperary senior hurling team.
He progressed onto the Tipperary under-21 team and won an All-Ireland Under-21 Championship title in 1979.
By this stage Stapleton had already been drafted onto the Tipperary senior hurling team.
He spent more than a decade with the team and won National Hurling League and Munster Championship honours.