萨米人也称拉普人，是北欧地区的原住民，欧洲最大的原住民族群之一，也是欧洲目前仅存的游牧民族。萨米人的语言是萨米语，属于芬兰-乌戈尔语族。其他对于萨米人的称呼或写法有： Sámen、Saamen、Sámi、Saami、Lappen；而从前称他们为拉普人，但萨米人认为这称呼带有轻视的意味。

萨米人的开垦地区常被简称为「拉普兰」，但萨米人的开垦区远广于瑞典历史上的拉普兰。他们把自己所开垦的区域称为萨米（Sápmi），横跨芬兰、挪威、瑞典、俄罗斯四国国境，包括瑞典两万人、挪威北部四万人、芬兰六千五百人和俄罗斯科拉半岛的部分地区两千人。瑞典境内萨米人的居住区是世界文化与自然双重遗产。

The Sami people (also Sámi or Saami, traditionally known in English as Lapps or Laplanders) are an indigenous Finno-Ugric people inhabiting the Arctic area of Sápmi, which today encompasses parts of far northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Kola Peninsula of Russia, and the border area between south and middle Sweden and Norway. The Sami are the only indigenous people of Scandinavia recognized and protected under the international conventions of indigenous peoples, and are hence the northernmost indigenous people of Europe. Sami ancestral lands span an area of approximately 388,350 km (150,000 sq. mi.), which is approximately the size of Norway, in the Nordic countries. Their traditional languages are the Sami languages and are classified as a branch of the Uralic language family.