title: Dude (disambiguation)
text: # 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
  