Mad, mad, MAD or M. A. D. may refer to:

Geography

  • Mad (village), a village in the Dunajská Streda District of Slovakia
  • Mád, a village in Hungary
  • Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, by IATA airport code
  • Mad River (disambiguation), several rivers

Music

Bands

  • Mad (band), Argentinian hard rock band from Buenos Aires
  • M.A.D (band), British boyband from London, England
  • M.A.D. (punk band), American hardcore punk band from Santa Cruz, California; later known as Blast
  • Meg and Dia, American indie rock band from Draper, Utah

Albums

  • Mad (Got7 EP), 2015
  • Mad (Hadouken! EP), 2009
  • Mad (Raven EP), 1986
  • Mad!, album by Sparks, 2025

Songs

  • "Mad" (song), by Ne-Yo, 2008
  • "Mad", by Cassie Steele, 2014
  • "Mad", by Dave Dudley from Talk of the Town, 1964
  • "Mad", by Harpers Bizarre from Secret Life of Harpers Bizarre, 1968
  • "Mad", by Isyana Sarasvati from Paradox, 2017
  • "Mad", by The Lemonheads from Lick, 1989
  • "Mad", by Magnetic Man from Magnetic Man, 2010
  • "Mad", by Renee Rapp from Bite Me, 2025
  • "M・A・D", by Buck-Tick from Kurutta Taiyou, 1991

Organizations

  • MAD Studio, an architectural firm
  • Mad Computers, defunct American computer company
  • Make A Difference, an Indian NGO
  • Might and Delight, a Swedish video game development studio
  • Militärischer Abschirmdienst, German military counterintelligence agency

Museums

  • Museum of Arts and Design, New York City, US
  • Mechanical Art and Design museum, in Stratford-upon-Avon
  • Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris

Science and technology

  • MAD (programming language), for Michigan Algorithm Decoder
  • MAD, a protein encoded by the MXD1 gene
  • Magnetic anomaly detector, detects variations in Earth's magnetic field
  • Maritime anomaly detection in Global Maritime Situational Awareness, for avoiding maritime collisions
  • Mathematicians of the African Diaspora, a website
  • Methodical Accelerator Design, a CERN scripting language
  • Modified Atkins diet
  • Model Autophagy Disorder, a variant of model collapse, the gradual degradation in the output of a generative artificial intelligence model trained on synthetic data intelligence
  • Mothers against decapentaplegic, a protein
  • MPEG Audio Decoder, software
  • Multi-conjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator, an astronomical instrument
  • Multi-wavelength anomalous dispersion, an X-ray crystallography technique
  • Mitral annular disjunction, a structural abnormality of the heart

Statistics

  • Mean absolute deviation, a measure of the variability of quantitative data
  • Median absolute deviation, a statistical measure of variability
  • Maximum absolute deviation, a statistical measure of variability
  • Mean absolute difference, a measure of statistical dispersion

Television and video

  • Mad TV, a 1995–2009 US series
  • The Mad, a 2007 Canadian horror/comedy film
  • Mad (TV series), 2010–2013, on Cartoon Network
  • MAD TV (TV channel), a music channel
  • M.A.D. (Indian TV programme), 2005–2010, children's educational programme
  • M.A.D., organization in Inspector Gadget
  • "M.A.D." (Veronica Mars), a 2005 episode

Other uses

  • Mad (magazine), an American humor magazine
  • Mad (manga), a post-apocalyptic manga series written by Yusuke Otori
  • Mad, a term for insanity used chiefly in British English
  • Mad, a term for anger used chiefly in US English
  • Mary Andrews Denison (1826–1911) American author, who wrote under these initials
  • Madagascar, IOC country code
  • Mutual assured destruction, nuclear warfare deterrence concept
  • Mandibuloacral dysplasia
  • Moroccan dirham, the currency of Morocco by ISO 4217 currency code
  • mad, the ISO 639-2 code for the Madurese language

See also

  • MADD (disambiguation)
  • Mad TV (disambiguation)
  • Rabies, (Latin rabies for "madness")
  • Mad, a variant of the Hindi-Urdu word for alcohol, madhu
  • Madness (disambiguation)
  • List of people known as the Mad