Bakhtiyār (Persian: بختیار; lit. lucky), alternatively spelt as "Bakhtyar", "Baxtiyar", "Bachtiar", "Bachtyar" and "Bahtiyar", is a Persian masculine given name and surname. Its feminine form is Bakhtawar. It is formed by a confluence of the elements ‘bakht’ meaning ‘fortune’ or ‘happiness’ and ‘avar’ meaning ‘bringing’ or ‘giving.’ Notable people with the name include:

• Bahtiyar Aydın (1946–1993), Turkish general
• Bahtiyar Can Vanlı (born 1962), Turkish-German football coach

• Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khalji, Ghurid general in Bengal under Qutb-ud-din Aibak
• Bakhtiyar Kaki, a 13th-century Sufi
• Bakhtiyar Artayev, a Kazakh boxer
• Bakhtiyar Akhmedov, a Russian wrestler
• Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh, an Azerbaijani poet
• Bakhtiyar Musayev, an Azerbaijani footballer
• Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov, Russian international lawyer
• Bakhtiyar Tyleganov, a Kazakh boxer
• Bakhtiyar Zaynutdinov, a Kazakh footballer
• Baxtiyor Rahimov, an Uzbek Islamist militant
• Bakhtiyor Hamidullaev, an Uzbek football player
• Bakhtiyar ibn Abu-Ja'far, an 11th-century local ruler of Semnan (under Ziyarids)
• 'Izz al-Dawla Bakhtiyar, a 10th-century Buyid Amir
• Bakhtiyar ibn Hasanuya, a 10th-century Hasanuyid Amir
• Bäxtiär Qanqayıv, an 18th-century Russian colonel (of Tatar origin)
• Bakhtiar Amin, Iraqi Kurdish politician

• Bachtiar Aly, Indonesian Ambassador for Egypt from 2002 to 2005
• Bachtiar Chamsyah, Indonesian politician
• Bachtiar Effendi, Indonesian film actor and director

• Bachtyar Ali, Kurdish-Iraqi novelist and intellectual

• Gulnazar, born Gülnezer Bextiyar, Chinese actress and model of Uyghur origin
• Abul qasim Bakhtiar, Iranian physician
• Lailee Bakhtiar, American author and critic
• Laleh Bakhtiar, Iranian-American author, translator and clinical psychologist
• Rudi Bakhtiar, Iranian-American newswoman
• Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian politician and Prime Minister of Iran
• Teymur Bakhtiar, Iranian general and head of Savak

• Akmal Bakhtiyarov, a Kazakh footballer