Pachter may refer to: * The holder of a

pacht The institution of the ''pacht'' or ''pacht-stelsel'' (revenue farm, pl. ''pachten'') was a system of tax farming in the Dutch Republic. In this system tax is not collected by the government, but by a private individual who has leased the right to ...

, a revenue or tax farm in the Dutch East Indies and Dutch Cape Colony

People with the surname

Charles Pachter Charles Pachter, D.F.A. LL. D. (born December 30, 1942 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian contemporary artist. He is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, historian, and lecturer. He studied French literature at the Sorbonne, art history at ...

(born 1942), Canadian contemporary artist *

Henry Pachter Henry Pachter (1907–1980) was a Marxist intellectual and a libertarian socialist activist. Perhaps best known as an essayist, who dealt with both historical and political matters, he also authored a number of books on a variety of subjects. An ...

(1907–1980), German American political writer and philosopher *

Lior Pachter Lior Samuel Pachter is a computational biologist. He works at the California Institute of Technology, where he is the Bren Professor of Computational Biology. He has widely varied research interests including genomics, combinatorics, computational ...

(born 1973), American computational biologist * Marc Pachter (born 1942 or 1943), American museum director {{disambiguation, surname