班图人（英语：Bantu）是撒哈拉以南、非洲中部、东部至非洲南部300–600个非洲族裔的统称。他们承袭共同的班图语言体系和文化。在很多班图语言中，「班图」就是「人」的意思。

他们最早生活在现代喀麦隆和尼日尔尔东部，以养牛、种山药、做铁工为生。在约三千年前，他们在西非占多数，然后南下排挤了俾格米人与布希曼人，在大约公元300年到达南非。

Bantu peoples is used as a general label for the 300–600 ethnic groups in Africa who speak Bantu languages. They inhabit a geographical area stretching east and southward from Central Africa across the African Great Lakes region down to Southern Africa. Bantu is a major branch of the Niger-Congo language family spoken by most populations in Africa. There are about 650 Bantu languages by the criterion of mutual intelligibility, though the distinction between language and dialect is often unclear, and Ethnologue counts 535 languages.