RAD or Rad may refer to:

People

* Robert Anthony Rad Dougall (born 1951), South African former racing driver *

Rad Hourani Rad Hourani (born 1982) is a Canadian fashion designer and artist known for his neutral, genderless creations. Career He created his unisex brand ''Rad Hourani'' in 2007 along with a unisex gender-neutral ready-to-wear collection. Two years ...

, Canadian fashion designer and artist * Nickname of Leonardus

Rad Kortenhorst Leonardus Gerardus (Rad) Kortenhorst (12 November 1886, Weesp – 13 January 1963, The Hague) was a Dutch politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Po ...

(1886–1963), Dutch politician * Radley

Rad Martinez Radley Martinez (born March 12, 1978) is retired American mixed martial artist. He was signed with Bellator Fighting Championships, where he competed in their featherweight division. Amateur Wrestling Career Martinez was a standout wrestler in ...

(born 1978), American retired mixed martial artist * "Rad", nickname of Sydney Valpy Radley-Walters (1920–2015), Canadian Army officer, top western Allied tank ace of the Second World War * Rad Radford, a ring name of American former professional wrestler Louis Mucciolo Jr. (1971–1998) *

Jahon Rad Jahon Rad ( fa, جیحون راد; born June 13, 2001) is an American soccer player who plays for Sporting Kansas City II in the USL Championship via the Sporting Kansas City Academy. Career Joining the Sporting Kansas City Academy in 2016 al ...

(born 2001), American soccer player, twin brother of Kaveh Rad *

Jovana Rad Jovana Rad (Serbian Cyrillic: Јована Рад; born May 8, 1987) is a Serbian professional basketball player. She plays as a power forward for the Serbian club Crvena zvezda. Jovana is a member of the Serbia national basketball team Se ...

(born 1987), Serbian basketball player *

Kaveh Rad Kaveh Rad ( fa, کاوه راد; born June 13, 2001) is an American professional soccer player. Early career Kaveh Rad was born and raised in North Carolina and played youth soccer for the Capital Area RailHawks Academy. He joined the Sporting ...

(born 2001), American soccer player, twin brother of Jahon Rad * Taras Rad (born 1999), Ukrainian Paralympic cross-country skier and biathlete

Arts and entertainment

* ''Rad'' (film), a 1986 release about a young BMX rider *

Rad (comics) Rad is a comic book supervillain in the Femforce comic published by AC Comics. Rad possesses superhuman strength, together with the ability to fly (although only over short distances). Her true identity was Jennifer Burke, daughter of the origina ...

, a villain in AC Comics's "Femforce" *

Rad Spencer , also known as Nathan Spencer in certain games, is a fictional character created by Capcom and the protagonist of the ''Bionic Commando'' series. Nathan Spencer is a prototype bionics-enhanced soldier who is mainly noted by Video game journalism, ...

, protagonist of the Bionic Commando video game series * Bradley "Rad" White, a character in the ''Transformers''

Unicron Trilogy Launched in 1984, the Transformers toyline by Takara and Hasbro was promoted through both a comic book by Marvel Comics and an animated series produced by Sunbow Productions and Marvel Productions with Toei Animation. Although the comic outlived t ...

, voiced by Kirby Morrow *

Rad (My-Otome) This article is a list of fictional characters who appear in the ''My-Otome'' anime series and its sequel ''My-Otome Zwei''. Garderobe Academy Coral Otome *: A main character of ''My-Otome''. She enters Garderobe dreaming of becoming an Otome ...

, a fictional manga character * ''Rad'' (video game), a roguelike video game

Acronym

* RAD Game Tools, a video game development tools provider * Radiation assessment detector, a scientific instrument on board the ''Curiosity'' rover * Rapid application development, of software *

Rational Application Developer Rational Machines is an enterprise founded by Paul Levy and Mike Devlin in 1981 to provide tools to expand the use of modern software engineering practices, particularly explicit modular architecture and iterative development. It changed its n ...

, an IBM IDE * Reactive attachment disorder, an emotional disorder * Reflex anal dilation, a controversial diagnostic technique * Allegheny Regional Asset District, Pennsylvania, United States * Reich Labour Service (''Reichsarbeitsdienst''; RAD), a major World War II German organization * Relative abundance distribution, a measure of biodiversity * Rental Assistance Demonstration, an American federal public housing program * Researchers Alliance for Development, a World Bank multidisciplinary network of researchers * Restriction site associated DNA markers, a genetic mapping technique * Rezvani Automotive Designs, American performance car manufacturer * Right axis deviation, a heart condition * '' Robot Alchemic Drive'', a video game *

Royal Academy of Dance "Health and happiness" , predecessor = , successor = , formation = 1920 , extinction = , type = NGO , status = Registered charity , purpose = Examination board – dance education and training , headquarters = 36 Battersea SquareSW11 3 ...

, UK * Royal Association for Deaf people, British charity *

Rules for Archival Description The Rules for Archival Description (RAD) is the Canadian archival descriptive standard. It provides a set of rules based on traditional archival principles, whose purpose is to provide a consistent and commonly shared descriptive foundation for des ...

, the Canadian archival descriptive standard

Other uses

* Rad (unit), a unit of absorbed radiation dose, largely used in the United States *

Rád Rád is a village in Pest county, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east ...

, a village in Pest county, Hungary *

Rad (village) Rad () is a village and municipality in the Trebišov District in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Centra ...

, in Trebišov District, Slovakia *

RAD Data Communications RAD (the registered trademark of RAD Data Communications Ltd.) is a privately held corporation, headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel that designs and manufacturers specialized networking equipment. RAD is a member of the $1.3 billion RAD Group of c ...

, a manufacturer of communications access solutions *

Rad Aviation Rad Aviation was a British aircraft manufacturer based in Kidlington. The company was formed by John Radford and specialized in the design and manufacture of paramotors in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft for the European microlight rules.Be ...

, a defunct British microlight aircraft manufacturer * ''Rad'' (journal), the oldest publication of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts *

Rad (rune) *Raidō "ride, journey" is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the ''r''- rune of the Elder Futhark . The name is attested for the same rune in all three rune poems, Old Norwegian nn, gamalnorsk , region = Kingdom of Norway ...

(ᚱ), a rune of the Anglo-Saxon fuþorc and continuation of the Elder Fuþark raido * rad, symbol for radian, a unit of angle * Radical of an integer, the mathematical operator, denoted rad(''n'') *

Radnorshire , HQ = Presteigne , Government = Radnorshire County Council (1889–1974) Radnorshire District Council (1974–1996) , Origin = , Status = historic county, administrative county , Start ...

, historic county in Wales, Chapman code * FK Rad, a Serbian football club * Rite Aid, New York Stock Exchange stock symbol RAD *

Radley railway station Radley railway station serves the villages of Radley and Lower Radley and the town of Abingdon, in Oxfordshire, England. It is on the Cherwell Valley Line between and , measured from . History The station was formerly a junction station f ...

, England; National Rail station code RAD * .rad scene-description file format, for Radiance (software) * Short for

radiator Radiators are heat exchangers used to transfer thermal energy from one medium to another for the purpose of cooling and heating. The majority of radiators are constructed to function in cars, buildings, and electronics. A radiator is always a ...

, a heating device

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