Faxe or Fakse is a town on the island of Zealand in eastern Denmark.

The town is most known for the Faxe Brewery, Royal Unibrew, a relatively large brewery producing a range of beer and soft drinks, soda, energy drinks, Faxe Kondi and many more and so on.

The name Faxe is Old Norse and means "horse mane", probably a reference to its location on a long hill.

For many years the letter x was considered unnatural in Danish and the Fakse spelling was enforced instead of the Old Norse Faxe.

The half-timbered Rasmus Svendsens Skole from 1633 is Denmark's oldest still existing village school.