Penitente or penitentes may refer to
- Penitente or penitent, any (typically Catholic) practitioner of ritual penance
- A member of the Penitente Brotherhood, a lay confraternity of Catholics in New Mexico
- A member of any historical penitent order
- Penitente (snow formation) or nieves penitentes, high-altitude snow formations that are hardened, elongated, closely spaced, and pointing towards the general direction of the sun
- Los Penitentes (Argentina), a ski resort
- The Penitentes, a lost 1915 silent film drama directed by Jack Conway and starring Orrin Johnson and Seena Owen.
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