Pachter may refer to:
- The holder of a pacht, a revenue or tax farm in the Dutch East Indies and Dutch Cape Colony
People with the surname
[edit]- Charles Pachter (born 1942), Canadian contemporary artist
- Henry Pachter (1907–1980), German American political writer and philosopher
- Lior Pachter (born 1973), American computational biologist
- Marc Pachter (born 1942 or 1943), American museum director