Dou Wu (died 168), courtesy name Youping, is a Han Dynasty politician who is known as a Confucian scholar and serves as a low-level official during the reign of Emperor Huan until his daughter Dou Miao is elevated from imperial consort to empress, which causes him to be promoted, eventually to become one of the most important imperial officials when his daughter becomes empress dowager and regent for Emperor Ling.

He, along with Chen Fan, attemps to curb eunuchs' powers and install Confucian scholars in imperial government, but after a plot by him and Chen to exterminate the most powerful eunuchs is discovered, heis defeated in battle and committed suicide.