Károly Kerkapoly or Kerkápoly (13 May 1824 - 31 December 1891) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Finance between 1870 and 1873.

Kerkapoly continued his studies in Halle an der Saale and Berlin, but returned to Hungary when the revolution broke out.

In a movement hulled around the Protestant autonomy in the same year, to the decompression of his church's constitution, he significantly been added.

The principal space of his function the parliamentary commissions were, beside this in the newspapers, was at work with a big effect anonymously mostly; the educating the people, the national emancipation, the questions of the public finance and the national defence made it the object of his studies.

The negotiations with few successes continued with the Austrian ministry and the national bank attacked the monarchy's credit case organization by this time for its alteration.