RAD or Rad may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

  • Rad (film), a 1986 American sports film
  • Rad (character), a villain in AC Comics's "Femforce"
  • Rad Spencer, fictional character in the Bionic Commando video game series
  • Bradley "Rad" White, fictional character in the Transformers Unicron Trilogy
  • Rad (My-Otome), a fictional manga character
  • Rad (video game), 2019
  • Robot Alchemic Drive, a video game
  • Rad (journal), a Croatian academic journal

Businesses and organisations

  • Rad Aviation, a defunct British aircraft manufacturer
  • Rad Bar, a music venue in Wollongong, Australia
  • RAD Group, a number of independent companies in the networking and telecommunications industry
  • RAD Data Communications, an Israeli networking equipment manufacturer
  • RAD Game Tools, a video game developer
  • Reich Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst), a paramilitary organization in Nazi Germany
  • Rezvani Automotive Designs, American performance car manufacturer
  • Rite Aid, New York Stock Exchange stock symbol RAD
  • Royal Academy of Dance, British examination board for dance education and training
  • Royal Association for Deaf people, British charity

People

Given name or nickname

  • Rad Dougall (Robert Anthony Dougall, born 1951), South African racing driver
  • Rad Hourani (born 1982), Canadian fashion designer and artist
  • Rad Kortenhorst (Leonardus Gerardus Kortenhorst, 1886–1963), Dutch politician
  • Rad Martinez (born 1978), American mixed martial artist
  • Sydney Valpy Radley-Walters (1920–2015), nicknamed Rad, Canadian Army officer
  • Rad Radford, a ring name of American wrestler Louis Mucciolo Jr. (1971–1998)

Surname

  • Jahon Rad (born 2001), American soccer player, twin brother of Kaveh Rad
  • Jovana Rad (born 1987), Serbian basketball player
  • Kaveh Rad (born 2001), American soccer player, twin brother of Jahon Rad
  • Taras Rad (born 1999), Ukrainian Paralympic cross-country skier and biathlete

Places

  • Rád, a village in Pest county, Hungary
  • Rad (village), in Trebišov District, Slovakia
  • Radnorshire, historic county in Wales
  • Allegheny Regional Asset District, a special purpose unit of local government in Pennsylvania, U.S.

Science and technology

  • Radian, symbol rad, a unit of angle
  • Rad (radiation unit), a unit of absorbed radiation dose
  • Radiation assessment detector, a scientific instrument on board the Curiosity rover
  • Radical of an integer, , in number theory
  • Rapid application development, a software development approach
  • Reactive attachment disorder, an emotional disorder
  • Reflex anal dilation, the reflexive dilation of the human anus
  • Relative abundance distribution, a measure of biodiversity
  • Restriction site associated DNA markers, a type of genetic marker
  • Right axis deviation, a heart condition
  • .rad file format, for Radiance (software)

Other uses

  • Rad (rune), an Anglo-Saxon rune
  • Rade language, ISO 639-3 language code rad
  • Radley railway station, England, station code RAD
  • Rental Assistance Demonstration, an American federal public housing program
  • Researchers Alliance for Development, a World Bank multidisciplinary network of researchers
  • Rules for Archival Description, the Canadian archival descriptive standard
  • FK Rad, a Serbian football club

See also

  • Radiator, a heat exchanger
  • Gerhard von Rad (1901–1971), German theologian