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{{Short description|Tang dynasty Chinese poet (712–770)}}
{{Family name hatnote|[[Du (surname)|Du (Tu)]]|lang=Chinese}}
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{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->
| name             = Du Fu
| image            = Dufu.jpg
| image_size       = 250px
| alt              = Later portrait of Du Fu with a goatee, a mustache, and black headwear
| caption          = Posthumous portrait
| birth_date       = 712
| birth_place      = possibly [[Gongyi|Gong County]], Henan<!-- DO NOT LINK, see [[MOS:GEOLINK]] for further guidance -->, Tang China
| death_date       = 770 (aged 57–58)
| death_place      = [[Tan Prefecture (Hunan)|Tan Prefecture]], Tang China
| occupation       = Poetry, politician
| genre            = 
| movement         = 
| period           = 
| influences       = 
| influenced       = 
| children         = {{Hlist|Zongwen|Zongwu|Feng'er}}
| relatives        = {{Plainlist|
* [[Du Shenyan]] (grandfather)
* Du Xian (father)
}}
}}
{{Infobox Chinese
| pic = Du Fu (Chinese characters).svg
| piccap = Du's name in [[Chinese characters]]
| picupright = 0.425
| c = {{linktext|杜|甫}}
| p = Dù Fǔ
| w = {{tone superscript|Tu4 Fu3}}
| mi = {{IPAc-cmn|d|u|4|-|f|u|3}}
| suz = Dôu Fù
| j = Dou6 Fu2
| y = Douh Fú
| ci = {{IPAc-yue|d|ou|6|-|f|u|2}}
| poj = Tō͘ Hú
| tl = Tōo Hú
| mc = /duo<sup>X</sup> pɨo<sup>X</sup>/
| kanji = 杜甫
| hiragana = とほ
| romaji = To Ho
| altname = Courtesy name
| c2 = {{linktext|子|美}}
| l2 = 
| p2 = Zǐmeǐ
| altname3 = Art name
| c3 = {{linktext|少|陵|野|老}}
| p3 = Shàolíng Yělǎo
| w2 = {{tone superscript|Tzu3-mei3}}
| j2 = Zi2 mei5
| y2 = Jí-méih
| y3 = Siú-lìhng Yéh-lóuh
| w3 = {{tone superscript|Shao4-ling2 Yeh3-lao3}}
| j3 = Siu2 ling4 Je5 lou5
| mi2 = {{IPAc-cmn|z|i|3|.|m|ei|3}}
| mi3 = {{IPAc-cmn|sh|ao|4|.|l|ing|2|-|i|e|3|.|l|ao|3}}
| ci2 = {{IPAc-yue|z|i|2|.|m|ei|5}}
| ci3 = {{IPAc-yue|s|iu|2|.|l|ing|2|-|j|e|5|.|l|ou|5}}
}}

'''Du Fu''' ({{zh|c=杜甫|p=Dù Fǔ|w=Tu Fu}}; 712–770) was a Chinese poet and politician during the [[Tang dynasty]]. Together with his elder contemporary and friend [[Li Bai]], Du is often considered one of the greatest [[Chinese poets]].<ref name="ebrey2006">{{cite book|last1=Ebrey|first1=Patricia Buckley|title=East Asia: A Cultural, Social, and Political History|last2=Walthall|first2=Anne |last3=Palais|first3=James|publisher=Houghton Mifflin|year=2006|isbn=978-0-618-13384-0|location=Boston|pages=103}}</ref> His greatest ambition was to serve his country as a successful [[civil servant]], but Du proved unable to make the necessary accommodations. His life, like all of China, was devastated by the [[An Lushan rebellion]] of 755, and his last 15 years were a time of almost constant unrest.

Although initially he was little-known to other writers, his works came to be hugely influential in both [[Culture of China#Literature|Chinese]] and [[Culture of Japan#Literature|Japanese literary culture]].  Of his poetic writing, nearly fifteen hundred poems have been preserved over the ages.<ref name="ebrey2006"/> He has been called the "Poet-Historian" and the "Poet-Sage" by Chinese critics, while the range of his work has allowed him to be introduced to Western readers as "the Chinese [[Virgil]], [[Horace]], [[Ovid]], [[Shakespeare]], [[John Milton|Milton]], [[Robert Burns|Burns]], [[Wordsworth]], [[Pierre-Jean de Béranger|Béranger]], [[Victor Hugo|Hugo]] or [[Baudelaire]]".{{Sfn|Hung|1952|p=1}}