Dude (disambiguation)
# Dude (disambiguation)

Dude is an American slang term for an individual, usually male.

Dude or Dudes may also refer to:

## People

* Dan the Dude (fl. c. 1905–1915), New York City criminal and cafe owner
* Devin the Dude (born 1970), American musician
* Gustavo Dudamel (born 1981), Venezuelan musician nicknamed "The Dude"
* Dude Esterbrook (1857–1901), American Major League Baseball player
* Dude Harlino (born 1980), Indonesian actor
* Dude Mowrey (born 1972), American country music singer
* Dude Love (born 1965), a ring name for former American professional wrestler Mick Foley

## Fictional characters

* "The Dude", in the Western film Rio Bravo, played by Dean Martin
* Dave "the Dude", hero of the film Lady for a Day (1933) and its remake, Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
* Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, protagonist of the film The Big Lebowski (1998)
* Dude Lester, in the 1932 novel Tobacco Road and the 1941 film adaptation
* Dr. Dude, from the pinball machine Dr. Dude And His Excellent Ray (1990)
* Dude, a character in the 2021 film Free Guy

## Music

* The Dudes, a Canadian band
* Th' Dudes, a New Zealand band
* Dude (musical), a 1972 musical
* The Dude (Quincy Jones album), a 1981 record album
* The Dude (Devin the Dude album), a 1998 record album
* Dudes (album), a 2011 album by David Mead
* "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)", a 1987 song by Aerosmith
* "Dude" (Beenie Man song), 2004
* "Dude" (Lethal Bizzle and Stormzy song), 2015
* WYAY (FM), a radio station licensed to Bolivia, North Carolina, United States and formerly called The Dude

## Other uses

* Dodge D Series, a 1970s line of pickup trucks known as The Dude
* Dude River, Romania
* Dude (film), a 2018 American film
* Dudes (film), a 1987 punk rock Western film
* The Dude (magazine), a men's magazine of the 1950s
* "The Dude", former branding of North Carolina radio station WYAY (FM)
* Discrete Universal Denoiser (DUDE), a denoising scheme in information theory and signal processing
* Baxter Street Dudes, an 1870s New York City teenage street gang
