diff --git a/avg_checkpoints.py b/avg_checkpoints.py
index a69212248..1f7604b05 100755
--- a/avg_checkpoints.py
+++ b/avg_checkpoints.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
 """ Checkpoint Averaging Script
 
 This script averages all model weights for checkpoints in specified path that match
diff --git a/clean_checkpoint.py b/clean_checkpoint.py
index 94f184d1b..a8edcc915 100755
--- a/clean_checkpoint.py
+++ b/clean_checkpoint.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
 """ Checkpoint Cleaning Script
 
 Takes training checkpoints with GPU tensors, optimizer state, extra dict keys, etc.
diff --git a/distributed_train.sh b/distributed_train.sh
index 884069974..1985669e2 100755
--- a/distributed_train.sh
+++ b/distributed_train.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 NUM_PROC=$1
 shift
-python -m torch.distributed.launch --nproc_per_node=$NUM_PROC train.py "$@"
+python3 -m torch.distributed.launch --nproc_per_node=$NUM_PROC train.py "$@"
 
diff --git a/inference.py b/inference.py
index 77be3602b..89efb1fb7 100755
--- a/inference.py
+++ b/inference.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
 """PyTorch Inference Script
 
 An example inference script that outputs top-k class ids for images in a folder into a csv.
diff --git a/train.py b/train.py
index f0fcd2af2..1dd5f39ed 100755
--- a/train.py
+++ b/train.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
 """ ImageNet Training Script
 
 This is intended to be a lean and easily modifiable ImageNet training script that reproduces ImageNet
diff --git a/validate.py b/validate.py
index 8ad9cb1f0..6e8eff7a3 100755
--- a/validate.py
+++ b/validate.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
 """ ImageNet Validation Script
 
 This is intended to be a lean and easily modifiable ImageNet validation script for evaluating pretrained