Sabatier is a French occupational name that means "shoemaker". Notable people with the surname include:
- Apollonie Sabatier, bohèmienne and muse to some artists in Paris around 1850/60
- Armand Sabatier, French zoologist and photographer, discoverer of the Sabattier effect
- Bonaventure-Hypolithe Sabatier (1773–1842), French general
- Charles Wugk Sabatier (1819–1862), Canadian pianist, organist, composer, and music educator
- Ernest Sabatier, French historian, poet and a Catholic missionary
- François Sabatier (born 1937), French musicologist
- François Sabatier-Ungher, French philanthropist, art critic and translator
- Gabriel Sabattier (1892–1966), French general in World War II
- Grant Sabatier (born 1984), American author, podcaster, and entrepreneur
- Léopold Sabatier, French colonial administrator in Kon Tum and Đắk Lắk Province
- Louis Auguste Sabatier, French Protestant theologian
- Louis Rémy Sabattier (1863–1935), a French artist
- Patrick Sabatier (born 1951), French presenter for both radio and television
- Paul Sabatier (theologian), French clergyman and historian
- Paul Sabatier (chemist), Nobel-prize winning inventor of the Sabatier reaction
- Pierre Sabatier (1935–2023), French physicist
- Pierre Sabatier (artist), French sculptor
- Raphaël Bienvenu Sabatier, French anatomist and surgeon
- Robert Sabatier (1923–2012), French poet and novelist