diff --git a/examples/reference/widgets/Tabulator.ipynb b/examples/reference/widgets/Tabulator.ipynb
index fdae2c25f1..cc26c2d217 100644
--- a/examples/reference/widgets/Tabulator.ipynb
+++ b/examples/reference/widgets/Tabulator.ipynb
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
     "* **``text_align``** (``dict`` or ``str``): A mapping from column name to alignment or a fixed column alignment, which should be one of `'left'`, `'center'`, `'right'`.\n",
     "* **`theme`** (``str``, `default='simple'`): The CSS theme to apply (note that changing the theme will restyle all tables on the page), which should be one of `'default'`, `'site'`, `'simple'`, `'midnight'`, `'modern'`, `'bootstrap'`, `'bootstrap4'`, `'materialize'`, `'bulma'`, `'semantic-ui'`, or `'fast'`.\n",
     "* **`theme_classes`** (`list[str]`): List of extra CSS classes to apply to the Tabulator element to customize the theme.\n",
+    "* **``title_formatters``** (``dict``): A dictionary mapping from column name to a *Tabulator* formatter specification.\n",
     "* **``titles``** (``dict``): A mapping from column name to a title to override the name with.\n",
     "* **``value``** (``pd.DataFrame``): The pandas DataFrame to display and edit\n",
     "* **``widths``** (``dict``): A dictionary mapping from column name to column width in the rendered table.\n",
@@ -176,7 +177,15 @@
    "cell_type": "markdown",
    "metadata": {},
    "source": [
-    "The list of valid *Tabulator* formatters can be found in the [Tabulator documentation](https://tabulator.info/docs/5.4/format#format-builtin).\n",
+    "The list of valid *Tabulator* formatters can be found in the [Tabulator documentation](https://tabulator.info/docs/5.5/format#format-builtin).\n",
+    "\n",
+    "Note that the equivalent specification may also be applied for column titles using the `title_formatters` parameter (but does not support Bokeh `CellFormatter` types)."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
     "\n",
     "## Editors/Editing\n",
     "\n",
@@ -204,7 +213,7 @@
    "cell_type": "markdown",
    "metadata": {},
    "source": [
-    "Therefore it is often preferable to use one of the [*Tabulator* editors](https://tabulator.info/docs/5.4/edit#edit) directly. Setting the editor of a column to `None` makes that column non-editable. Note that in addition to the standard *Tabulator* editors the `Tabulator` widget also supports `'date'` and `'datetime'` editors:"
+    "Therefore it is often preferable to use one of the [*Tabulator* editors](https://tabulator.info/docs/5.5/edit#edit) directly. Setting the editor of a column to `None` makes that column non-editable. Note that in addition to the standard *Tabulator* editors the `Tabulator` widget also supports `'date'` and `'datetime'` editors:"
    ]
   },
   {
diff --git a/panel/widgets/tables.py b/panel/widgets/tables.py
index cba5d20863..19ae7c08fb 100644
--- a/panel/widgets/tables.py
+++ b/panel/widgets/tables.py
@@ -1095,6 +1095,10 @@ class Tabulator(BaseTable):
        List of extra CSS classes to apply to the Tabulator element
        to customize the theme.""")
 
+    title_formatters = param.Dict(default={}, doc="""
+       Tabulator formatter specification to use for a particular column
+       header title.""")
+
     _data_params: ClassVar[List[str]] = [
         'value', 'page', 'page_size', 'pagination', 'sorters', 'filters'
     ]
@@ -1112,7 +1116,7 @@ class Tabulator(BaseTable):
     _rename: ClassVar[Mapping[str, str | None]] = {
         'selection': None, 'row_content': None, 'row_height': None,
         'text_align': None, 'embed_content': None, 'header_align': None,
-        'header_filters': None, 'styles': 'cell_styles'
+        'header_filters': None, 'styles': 'cell_styles', 'title_formatters': None
     }
 
     # Determines the maximum size limits beyond which (local, remote)
@@ -1718,6 +1722,13 @@ def _config_columns(self, column_objs: List[TableColumn]) -> List[Dict[str, Any]
                 formatter = dict(formatter)
                 col_dict['formatter'] = formatter.pop('type')
                 col_dict['formatterParams'] = formatter
+            title_formatter = self.title_formatters.get(column.field)
+            if title_formatter:
+                col_dict['titleFormatter'] = title_formatter
+            elif isinstance(title_formatter, dict):
+                formatter = dict(title_formatter)
+                col_dict['titleFormatter'] = title_formatter.pop('type')
+                col_dict['titleFormatterParams'] = title_formatter
             col_name = self._renamed_cols[column.field]
             if column.field in self.indexes:
                 if len(self.indexes) == 1: