diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 2bc9833ba..467b200e3 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2884,6 +2884,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "ureq",
  "url",
  "uu_cp",
+ "uu_whoami",
  "uuid",
  "wax",
  "which 5.0.0",
@@ -5621,6 +5622,18 @@ dependencies = [
  "xattr",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "uu_whoami"
+version = "0.0.22"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "585d70c283e4c741889ec8575c23f91b350e4d12bfe39b938d18083816830c5d"
+dependencies = [
+ "clap",
+ "libc",
+ "uucore",
+ "windows-sys 0.48.0",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "uucore"
 version = "0.0.22"
diff --git a/crates/nu-command/Cargo.toml b/crates/nu-command/Cargo.toml
index 49e25a476..226639369 100644
--- a/crates/nu-command/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/nu-command/Cargo.toml
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ unicode-segmentation = "1.10"
 ureq = { version = "2.8", default-features = false, features = ["charset", "gzip", "json", "native-tls"] }
 url = "2.2"
 uu_cp = "0.0.22"
+uu_whoami = "0.0.22"
 uuid = { version = "1.5", features = ["v4"] }
 wax = { version = "0.6" }
 which = { version = "5.0", optional = true }
diff --git a/crates/nu-command/src/default_context.rs b/crates/nu-command/src/default_context.rs
index 0bd8cc41a..5a2c9f89a 100644
--- a/crates/nu-command/src/default_context.rs
+++ b/crates/nu-command/src/default_context.rs
@@ -229,6 +229,7 @@ pub fn add_shell_command_context(mut engine_state: EngineState) -> EngineState {
             Kill,
             Sleep,
             TermSize,
+            Whoami,
         };
 
         // Date
diff --git a/crates/nu-command/src/platform/mod.rs b/crates/nu-command/src/platform/mod.rs
index 1a5bc50e0..d6a6b3a5a 100644
--- a/crates/nu-command/src/platform/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/nu-command/src/platform/mod.rs
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ mod input;
 mod kill;
 mod sleep;
 mod term_size;
+mod whoami;
 
 pub use ansi::{Ansi, AnsiLink, AnsiStrip};
 pub use clear::Clear;
@@ -17,3 +18,4 @@ pub use input::InputListen;
 pub use kill::Kill;
 pub use sleep::Sleep;
 pub use term_size::TermSize;
+pub use whoami::Whoami;
diff --git a/crates/nu-command/src/platform/whoami.rs b/crates/nu-command/src/platform/whoami.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..016f31b60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/nu-command/src/platform/whoami.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+use nu_protocol::ast::Call;
+use nu_protocol::engine::{Command, EngineState, Stack};
+use nu_protocol::{
+    Category, Example, IntoPipelineData, PipelineData, ShellError, Signature, Type, Value,
+};
+
+#[derive(Clone)]
+pub struct Whoami;
+
+impl Command for Whoami {
+    fn name(&self) -> &str {
+        "whoami"
+    }
+
+    fn usage(&self) -> &str {
+        "Get the current username using uutils/coreutils whoami."
+    }
+
+    fn signature(&self) -> Signature {
+        Signature::build("whoami")
+            .input_output_types(vec![(Type::Nothing, Type::String)])
+            .allow_variants_without_examples(true)
+            .category(Category::Platform)
+    }
+
+    fn search_terms(&self) -> Vec<&str> {
+        vec!["username", "coreutils"]
+    }
+
+    fn run(
+        &self,
+        _engine_state: &EngineState,
+        _stack: &mut Stack,
+        call: &Call,
+        _input: PipelineData,
+    ) -> Result<PipelineData, ShellError> {
+        let output = match uu_whoami::whoami() {
+            Ok(username) => username.to_string_lossy().to_string(),
+            Err(err) => {
+                return Err(ShellError::GenericError(
+                    "Failed to get username".into(),
+                    err.to_string(),
+                    Some(call.head),
+                    None,
+                    Vec::new(),
+                ))
+            }
+        };
+
+        Ok(Value::string(output, call.head).into_pipeline_data())
+    }
+
+    fn examples(&self) -> Vec<Example> {
+        vec![Example {
+            description: "Get the current username",
+            example: "whoami",
+            result: None,
+        }]
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::Whoami;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn examples_work_as_expected() {
+        use crate::test_examples;
+        test_examples(Whoami {})
+    }
+}