Pieter Gerardus van Overstraten (19 February 1755 – 22 August 1801) was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1796 until 1801.

He wrote an historically important memoir for his successor containing information about that area during his term of office.

On 17 February 1797, Willem Arnold Alting resigned as Governor-General and Commissioner of Police (Commissaris-General).

When the High Government of the Indies was dissolved in 1799, he resigned as Commissioner of Police, but remained as Governor-General serving the Batavian Republic, which the Netherlands had become under Napoleon Bonaparte.

During Van Overstraten's term of office, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) was dissolved, Ternate went into British hands, Batavia was blockaded by a British fleet, and the fortifications on the island of Onrust, and on a few other islands, destroyed.