Ned or NED may refer to:

People

  • Ned (given name)
  • Ned (Scottish), a slang term for a Scottish urban youth who engages in hooliganism

Organisations

  • National Endowment for Democracy, a U.S. non-profit organization
  • NED University of Engineering and Technology, named after Nadirshaw Edulji Dinshaw, located in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

In arts and entertainment

  • Ned (film), a 2003 Australian film
  • Neds (film), a 2010 British film
  • N.E.D., a rock band consisted of medical doctors
  • Ned, the title character of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, a Nickelodeon sitcom
  • Ned, the title character of Ned's Newt, a 1990s Canadian animated series
  • Ned, the title character of The Misfortune of Being Ned, a webseries

For a full list of fictional characters named Ned, see Ned (given name)#Fictional characters.

In science, technology and medicine

  • Named entity disambiguation, the task of determining the identity of entities mentioned in text
  • Nano-emissive display, a type of flat panel display
  • NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database, a database of information on astronomical objects outside the Milky Way galaxy
  • National Elevation Dataset, topographic data
  • NED, National edeposit, an Australian online depository for legal deposit of electronic documents
  • NED, acronym for "No evidence of disease", a term used by oncologists to describe the condition of a person with cancer who has been successfully treated and is in complete remission
  • North east down axial system
  • NED, acronym for "Nasal EPAP Dilator," a term used for a nasal device that combines nasal dilation with nasal EPAP (Expiratory Positive Air Pressure) to treat snoring and sleep disordered breathing

In business

  • New England Digital, a discontinued company producing music synthesizers
  • A non-executive director of a company

Other uses

  • Ned (snail) (d. 2026), New Zealand snail with a sinistral (left-spiraling) shell
  • Ned, Tullyhunco, a townland in the parish of Killeshandra, barony of Tullyhunco, county of Cavan, Ireland
  • Nederland, or the Netherlands, a country of which the IOC and FIFA abbreviation is NED
  • "New Engine Desperado", a type of UK railfan, see Glossary of United Kingdom railway terms
  • New English Dictionary, the original title of the Oxford English Dictionary