Jowan Qupty ("koop-tee", Arabic: جوان قبطي, Hebrew: ג'ואן קופטי; born June 6, 1990) is a Palestinian-Israeli swimmer.

[1][2][3][5] He won the Florida high school swimming state 100 yard breaststroke championship (57.27 seconds) for the Bulldogs.

Qupty and fellow Israeli swimmer Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or had known each other when they were children, and swum together for the Jerusalem United swim club in Israel.

"[4] The younger Qupty observed that "people were amazed all the time" that he – a Palestinian – and a Jew could coexist, and Shapira Bar-Or said: "It shows how simple the situation is.

"[6] In July 2009, he won a bronze medal in 200 m breaststroke (2:24.43), behind Israelis Tom Beeri and Daniel Malnik, in Swimming at the 2009 Maccabiah Games.