Vacher

Vacher is a surname of French origin. Its literal translation means a keeper of stock or cattle or a herdsman but is generally used by people whose ancestry is traced to the cow-herders. It is also used by a small group of people in India. People with the name include:


 * Antoine Vacher (1873–1920), French geographer
 * Charles Vacher, (1818–1883), watercolour painter
 * Chris Vacher (born 1951), British television news presenter
 * Georges Vacher de Lapouge (1854–1936), French anthropologist and theoretician of eugenics and racialism
 * Joseph Vacher (1869–1898), French serial killer
 * Laurent-Michel Vacher (1944–2005), French Canadian philosopher, writer, and journalist
 * Paul Vacher (before 1936–1975), French perfumer
 * Polly Vacher (born 1944), English aviator
 * Sydney Vacher (fl. 1886–1890), English architect
 * Thomas Brittain Vacher (1805–1880), English lithographer, legal stationer, and printer
 * William Herbert Vacher (1826–1899), British merchant and banker