Drifter may refer to:

• Drifter (person) who drifts from place to place
• An attempted counterculture to remove, or merge, existing cliques.
• Drifter 25 (boat) 25 feet polyester fast sailing yacht build in the Netherlands
• Drifter (aircraft) built in Australia by 'Drifter Aircraft'
• Drifter (fishing boat)
• Drifter (chocolate), a Nestlé chocolate bar in the UK
• Drifter (drill), a rock or ground drill
• Drifter (song) by Deep Purple from Come Taste the Band
• Drifter (floating device), a device to explore ocean currents
• Drifter, a novel by William C. Dietz
• One who participates in the drifting (motorsport)
• The Drifter, a 1917 silent film starring Harry Carey
• ''The Drifter, an animated series
• A type of lightweight sail used in light winds like a spinnaker
• A fictional character not from Bikini Bottom in SpongeBob SquarePants
• The Kawasaki Vulcan 800 Drifter motorcycle