The Drúedain are a fictional race of Men, living in the Drúadan Forest, in the Middle-earth legendarium created by J. R. R. Tolkien. They were counted among the Edain who made their way into Beleriand in the First Age, and were friendly to the Elves. In The Lord of the Rings, they assist the Riders of Rohan to avoid ambush on the way to the Battle of the Pelennor Fields.

The Drúedain are based on the mythological woodwoses, the wild men of the woods of Britain and Europe; the Riders of Rohan indeed call them woses.

Within Tolkien's fiction, the Drúedain call themselves Drughu. When the Drúedain settled in Beleriand, the Sindarin Elves adapted this to Drû (plurals Drúin, Drúath) and later added the suffix -adan "man", resulting in the usual Sindarin form Drúadan (plural Drúedain). Tolkien also used the form Drûg, with a regular English plural Drûgs. Drughu became Rú in Quenya, with the later suffixed form Rúatan (plural Rúatani). The Orcs called the Drúedain Oghor-hai. John S. Ryan, writing in Mallorn, notes that Tolkien also uses the forms "Drúadan Forest" (the home of the Woses) and "Drúwaith-laur" (the Dru-folk's ancient wilderness).

The word used for the Drúedain by the Rohirrim during the Third Age is represented by Tolkien as Púkel-men. This includes the Old English word pūcel "goblin, troll", which survives in Shakespeare's Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and in two forms in Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill. Ryan adds that the word survives in English placenames such as Puckshot in Surrey, Pock Field in Cumberland, Puxton, Puckeridge, Pokesdown, Pockford, Pucknall, and perhaps Pucklechurch. Ryan suggests that the Púkel-men may derive from a combination of "Proto-Celts, Druid-figures, or ... roadside fertility deities". Ryan notes Christopher Tolkien's statement that the name Púkel-men is "also used as a general equivalent to Drúedain".

In Westron, the Common Tongue of western Middle-earth, the Drúedain were called the Wild Men, or the [Wood-]Woses:

You hear the Woses, the Wild Men of the Woods: thus they talk together from afar. They still haunt Druadan Forest, it is said. Remnants of an older time they be, living few and secretly, wild and wary as the beasts.

The Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey, a philologist like Tolkien, notes that the office at Leeds University which both men used (at different times), is near Woodhouse Moor, which, as "would not have escaped Tolkien", is a modern misspelling of Wood-Wose, Old English wudu-wāsa. Clark Hall renders this word as "faun, satyr".

The Drúedain somewhat resemble Dwarves in stature and endurance; they are stumpy, clumsy-limbed with short, thick legs, and fat, "gnarled" arms, broad chests, fat bellies, and heavy buttocks. According to the Elves and other Men, they had "unlovely faces": wide, flat, and expressionless with deep-set black eyes that glowed red when angered. They had "horny" brows, flat noses, wide mouths, and sparse, lank hair. They had no hair lower than the eyebrows, except for a few men who had a tail of black hair on the chin. They were short-lived and had a deep hatred of Orcs. They had certain magical powers and sat still in meditation for long periods.