海豚（学名：Delphinidae）是小型鲸类水生哺乳动物，外观大小和中文名称相似的亲属尚有鼠海豚和淡水豚科，广泛生活在大陆架附近的浅海里，偶见于淡水之中。海豚大约包括了20几个属中的60多个种，其中海豚科是鲸目中最大的一科，大约于1000万年前的中新世演化而成。各种海豚的长度从1.2米到9.5米，重量从40千克到10吨不等，它们主要以软体动物为食。海豚是智商最高的动物之一，有着看起来友善的形态和爱嬉闹性格的它们，在人类文化中一向十分受欢迎。

Dolphins are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic marine mammals. They are an informal grouping within the order Cetacea, excluding whales and porpoises, so to zoologists the grouping is paraphyletic. The dolphins comprise the extant families Delphinidae (the oceanic dolphins), Platanistidae (the Indian river dolphins), Iniidae (the new world river dolphins), and Pontoporiidae (the brackish dolphins). There are 40 extant species of dolphins. Dolphins, alongside other cetaceans, belong to the clade Cetartiodactyla with even-toed ungulates, and their closest living relatives are the hippopotamuses, having diverged about 40 million years ago.