Dude (disambiguation)

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

Dude or Dudes may also refer to:

People

• Gustavo Dudamel (born 1981), Venezuelan musician nicknamed "The Dude"
• Lenny Dykstra (born 1963), American former Major League Baseball player and convicted felon
• Dude Esterbrook (1857-1901), American Major League Baseball player
• Dude Harlino (born 1980), Indonesian actor
• Dude Mowrey (born 1972), American country music singer
• Dan the Dude (fl. c. 1905-15), New York City criminal and cafe owner
• Devin the Dude (born 1970), American musician

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)

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" (song) by Beenie Man

Other uses

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

See also

• Chester A. Arthur (1829-1886), President of the United States nicknamed the "Dude President"