Lyduvėnai is a small town in the Šiluva Eldership [lt], Raseiniai District Municipality, Kaunas County in central Lithuania.

Lyduvėnai is situated in the Dubysa regional park [lt] and has its information center in the town's school.

[4] According to Jonas Basanavičius, Lyduvėnai comes from Lýda, which meant a field after the forests were cut down and the swamps drained.

[8]In 1558, Sigismund II Augustus gave Lyduvėnai the privilege to create a town near the manor, to organize markets, and to keep taverns.

[7] At the time of the November Uprising in 1830–31, Ezechielis Stanevičius, the Raseiniai county's nobility's Maršalka, lived in Lyduvėnai manor.

[1] In 1863, the local rebels supporting the January Uprising destroyed the Lyduvėnai valsčius office's documents,[1] in addition to appropriating its chest, which contained 150 rubles.

[7] The local Catholic priest, Antanas Opulskis, who supported the insurgents, was arrested, interrogated and exiled to Tunka, where he died in 1872.

[13] During summer 1941, 300 Jews and Communists from the village and its environs were executed on the occupying Nazi administration's orders on the slopes of the Dubysa.

[1][11] After the Second World War, the P. Markevičius (Pranckus) platoon of Lithuanian partisans, subordinated to the Vėgėlė Rinktinė, operated near the town.