法兰索瓦·杜鲁福（François Truffaut，1932年2月6日－1984年10月21日），法国著名导演，法国新浪潮（电影创作流派）的代表之一，「作者电影」的提倡者和佼佼者，与法国另一名导尚卢·高达并列，在国际影坛享有盛誉。

杜鲁福因为逃学，14岁便失学要到工厂工作。少年时他已经热爱电影，曾举办小型电影放映活动导致欠债，16岁时被送进不良少年教养所，后来由安德烈·巴赞保释，并把他领进了影评的园地，巴赞成为他的精神导师，也深深影响他在电影方面的观念。1951年巴赞创办《电影笔记》，其后杜鲁福加入撰写影评，被认为是巴黎最尖刻的评论人。

François Roland Truffaut ([fʁɑ̃.swa ʁɔ.lɑ̃ tʁyfo]; 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic, as well as one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry, having worked on over 25 films. Truffaut's film The 400 Blows came to be a defining film of the French New Wave movement. He also directed such classics as Shoot the Piano Player (1960), Jules et Jim (1961), The Wild Child (1970), Two English Girls (1971), Day for Night (1973) and The Woman Next Door (1981).