野孩子（英语：feral child）是指从年龄很小就开始与世隔绝，而不懂得人类社会行为和语言的孩子。野孩子极其少见，在世界上仅有一百余个已知案例。在这些案例中，大部分是人为禁固的情况，仅有三例是无可争辩的野孩子。

神话和小说中的野孩子，常常是由诸如狼或熊等野生动物喂养。

法国电影导演特吕弗（François Truffaut）于1970年导演的《野孩子》（法语：L'Enfant Sauvage）就是根据19世纪初法国一位野孩子的经历改编，这位野孩子名叫唯克多。

A feral child (also called wild child) is a human child who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, and has little or no experience of human care, behavior, or, crucially, of human language. Some feral children have been confined by people (usually their own parents), and in some cases this child abandonment was due to the parents’ rejection of a child’s severe intellectual or physical impairment. Feral children may have experienced severe abuse or trauma before being abandoned or running away. Feral children are sometimes the subjects of folklore and legends, typically portrayed as having been raised by animals.