Albert Samuel Gatschet (October 3, 1832, Beatenberg, Canton of Bern – March 16, 1907, Washington, D.C.) was a Swiss-American ethnologist who trained as a linguist in the universities of Bern and Berlin.

He later moved to the United States and settled there in order to study Native American languages, a field in which he was a pioneer.

In 1879 he became a member of the Bureau of American Ethnology, which was part of the Smithsonian Institution.

His study of the Klamath people located in present-day Oregon, published in 1890, is recognized as outstanding.

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