Frederick Kennedy Panter (1836 – 13 November 1864) was a police officer, pastoralist and explorer in colonial Western Australia.
In 1864, Panter and the naturalist Dr James Martin led an official expedition to investigate claims made by a convict, Henry Wildman, who reported finding gold near Camden Harbour (close to the northern tip of the Kimberley region), eight years earlier.
While no gold was found, the expedition reinforced Martin and Kenneth Brown's previous (1863) discovery of pastoral land around both Camden Harbour and Roebuck Bay.
The following month, Panter, along with James Harding and William Goldwyer, set out from the base camp on an expedition to explore the area to the south, around La Grange Bay.
Brown's party eventually found the three men dead, having been clubbed and speared to death, following a series of clashes with Karajarri people.