能人（拉丁文学名：Homo habilis），**称巧人，现已灭绝(已演化成智人种)，是灵长目动物里第一种被认为属于人类的生物，是人科人属中的一个种1960年～1963年，玛丽·利基于东非坦桑尼亚的奥杜韦峡谷发现。生存在大约一百八十万年前，是介于南方古猿和直立人的中间类型。

能人的形态特征是：他们很矮，高度不过144厘米，门齿、犬齿较大，前臼齿比纤细型南方古猿窄，锁骨与现代人相似，手骨和足骨比现代人粗壮，一般来说仍旧比较相似，头骨的骨壁薄，眉嵴不明显，脑容量大约为680毫升。

能人比起南方古猿进步，一般相信他们是南方古猿的后代，但也许他们更直接的袓先是体型更大、与猿类更相似的卢多尔夫人（Homo rudolfensis）。

Homo habilis (meaning "handy man" or "able man") is a species of the tribe Hominini, during the Gelasian and early Calabrian stages of the Pleistocene period, which lived between roughly 2.8 and 1.5 million years ago.

A team led by scientists Louis and Mary Leakey uncovered the fossilized remains during the time frame of 1960-1963 at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania; these fossils were speculated to be a new species, and called Homo habilis ('handy man'), because they suspected that it was this slightly larger-brained early human that made the thousands of stone tools also found at Olduvai Gorge.