Peter Árpád Kaplony (15 June 1933 in Budapest – 11 February 2011 in Zurich) was a Hungarian-born Swiss egyptologist.
Kaplony, son of a Hungarian military officer, emigrated to Switzerland as a child in December 1944.
He participated in the excavations of the Sun temple of Userkaf in Abusir from 1954 until 1957 with a joint Swiss and German team of archeologists.
[1] In 1959, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Zurich and, in 1964, his Habilitation.
His studies were especially focused on the pre-dynastic and early dynastic periods of Egypt and he published mostly in German and Swiss research journals.