人属（学名Homo，来自拉丁语的人）是灵长目人科中的一个属。今天生活在世界上的现代人即智人是其唯一幸存的物种。然而，有许多学者认为，依DNA的差异性而言，黑猩猩属和人属，在生物学分类上，实在应该归为同一属。

人属最大的特点是其发达的脑。在二百万年的进化中其脑的容量扩大了三倍。

在人科中人属的特点是：

人属中已灭绝物种：

Homo is the genus that comprises the species Homo sapiens, which includes modern humans, as well as several extinct species classified as ancestral to or closely related to modern humans—as for examples Homo habilis and Homo neanderthalensis. The genus is about 2.8 million years old; it first appeared as its earliest species Homo habilis, which emerged from the genus Australopithecus, which itself had previously split from the lineage of Pan, the chimpanzees. Taxonomically, Homo is the only genus assigned to the subtribe Hominina which, with the subtribes Australopithecina and Panina, comprise the tribe Hominini (see evolutionary tree below). All species of the genus Homo plus those species of the australopithecines that arose after the split from Pan are called hominins.