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 (1886–1963), Dutch politician * Radley Rad Martinez (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 Louis Mucciolo Jr. (February 10, 1971 – February 15, 1998) was an American professional wrestler. He performed in Mexico under the ring name Madonna's Boyfriend, for the World Wrestling Federation as Rad Radford, and in Extreme Championship ...

, 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 (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), 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 Rapid application development (RAD), also called rapid application building (RAB), is both a general term for adaptive software development approaches, and the name for James Martin's method of rapid development. In general, RAD approaches to ...

, of software * Rational Application Developer, 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 ...

, 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, 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) (ᚱ), a rune of the Anglo-Saxon fuþorc and continuation of the Elder Fuþark raido * rad, symbol for

radian The radian, denoted by the symbol rad, is the unit of angle in the International System of Units (SI) and is the standard unit of angular measure used in many areas of mathematics. The unit was formerly an SI supplementary unit (before tha ...

, 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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