Zed or ZED may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Music

Zed (band) Zed is a New Zealand rock group, which was formed as Supra in 1996 in Christchurch by Ben Campbell (musician), Ben Campbell on bass guitar and triangle, Nathan King (singer-songwriter), Nathan King on lead vocals, guitar and trumpet, and Adria ...

, a pop-rock group from New Zealand * Zed Radio, radio station in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine *

Zeds Dead Zeds Dead is a Canadian electronic music duo from Toronto consisting of Dylan Mamid, also known as DC, and Zachary Rapp-Rovan, also known as Hooks. The duo rose to prominence releasing original music and remixes from 2009 to 2010 before becoming ...

, an electronic music duo from Toronto, Canada

Fictional characters

Zed (comics) The following is a list of characters in the ''Hellblazer'' comic book series published by DC Comics and its Vertigo (DC Comics), Vertigo imprint. John Constantine A Liverpudlian magician and conman, and the main character in the series. He fi ...

, a character from the ''Hellblazer'' comic series * Zed (Kiba), the main character of the anime series ''Kiba'' * Zed, a character in '' The Men in Black'' comics and ''

Men in Black In popular culture and UFO conspiracy theories, men in black (MIB) are government agents dressed in dark suits, who question, interrogate, harass, and threaten unidentified flying object (UFO) witnesses to keep them silent about what they have ...

'' film series * Zed, an Anubian Baskurr in '' Ben 10: Omniverse'' * Zed, a character in the film ''

Pulp Fiction ''Pulp Fiction'' is a 1994 American independent crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino from a story he conceived with Roger Avary.See, e.g., King (2002), pp. 185–7; ; It tells four intertwining tales of crime and violence ...

'' * Zed, a character in the film '' Zardoz'' played by Sean Connery * Zed (Zetto), a character in the film '' One Piece Film: Z'' * Zed Necrodopolis, a main character in the film '' Zombies'' and its sequels, '' Zombies 2'' and '' Zombies 3'' * Zed McGlunk, a character in the ''Police Academy'' film franchise

Other entertainment

* ''Zed'' (Cirque du Soleil), a Cirque du Soleil production in Japan * Zed Group, a Spanish company that markets entertainment products to the mobile phone industry *

Zed Books Zed Books is a non-fiction publishing company based in London, UK. It was founded in 1977 under the name Zed Press by Roger van Zwanenberg. Zed publishes books for an international audience of both general and academic readers, covering areas ...

, an independent academic publishing company based in London, England * '' ZeD'', a Canadian variety television series * ''

Zed Plus ''Zed Plus'' is a 2014 comedy-drama film directed by Chandraprakash Dwivedi. The film features Adil Hussain as one of many lead characters, including Rahul Singh, Mona Singh, Mukesh Tiwari, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Sanjay Mishra, Shivani Tanksa ...

'', a 2014 Bollywood drama film directed by Chandraprakash Dwivedi

Technology and engineering

Z notation The Z notation is a formal specification language used for describing and modelling computing systems. It is targeted at the clear specification of computer programs and computer-based systems in general. History In 1974, Jean-Raymond Abria ...

, a formal specification language *

Zed (text editor) Zed is a free and open-source text and source-code editor for Linux and macOS with support for extensions, and embedded version control with Git. Developed by Zed Industries, the people behind Atom. Features include support for syntax highlightin ...

, a successor to the Atom text editor * Nissan Z, a Nissan sports car *

Kawasaki Z series Kawasaki () may refer to: Places *Kawasaki, Kanagawa Kawasaki, officially Kawasaki City, is a Cities of Japan, city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, one of the main cities of the Greater Tokyo Area and Keihin Industrial Area. It is the second mo ...

, a motorcycle series

People

Given name

Zed Bias Dave Jones, better known as Zed Bias, is an English electronic musician based in Manchester, who operates within the UK garage/ 2-step, broken beat and UK funky genres, as a producer and as a DJ. He has also released material under various ...

(born 1969), English musician *

Zed Coston Fred Monroe "Zed" Coston (July 12, 1915 – March 23, 2003) was an American football center who played one season in the National Football League (NFL). Coston attended Crozier Tech High School and was an all-state center. ''D Magazine'' lat ...

(1915–2003), American football player *

Zed Key Zed Key (born April 4, 2002) is an American college basketball player for the Dayton Flyers of the Atlantic 10 Conference. Early life Key was born on April 4, 2002. He was raised in Bay Shore and went to Brentwood HS through his sophomore season ...

(born 2002), American basketball player *

Zed Ndamane Zama Thembekile Anderson Ndamane (born 3 July 1964), commonly known as Zed Ndamane, is a South African cricket umpire and a former cricketer Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball game played between two Sports team, teams of e ...

(born 1964), South African cricket umpire *

Zed Al Refai Zed "Zeddy" Al Refai (born October 28, 1966) is a Kuwaiti climber. He was the first Arab to climb Mount Everest and the 46th person to climb all seven highest summits in the seven continents of the world. Biography Al Refai spent part of his ...

(born 1966), Kuwaiti business person *

Zed Saad Zed Saad Aboulos (; born 24 May 1997), is a Qatari professional footballer who plays for Qatar SC as a midfielder In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an Glossary of association football terms#O, outfield position prima ...

(born 1997), Qatari footballer *

Zed Seselja Zdenko Matthew "Zed" Seselja (; born 27 March 1977) is an Australian politician who was a Senator for the Australian Capital Territory from 2013 to 2022, representing the Liberal Party. He was the Minister for International Development and the ...

(born 1977), Australian politician *

Zed Shaw Zed A. Shaw is a software developer best known for creating the ''Learn Code the Hard Way'' series of programming tutorials, as well as for creating the Mongrel web server for Ruby web applications. He is also well known for his controversial vi ...

, American software developer * Zed S. Stanton (1848–1921), American attorney and judge

Surname

* David Zed (born 1960), American actor *

Paul Zed Paul Zed (born December 31, 1956) is a Canadians, Canadian lawyer, professor, and politician. Early life and education Paul Zed was born in Toronto on December 31, 1956, the eldest of seven children born to a Lebanese Canadians, Lebanese Canadi ...

(born 1956), former Liberal member of the Parliament of Canada * Gordon Penrose (aka ''Dr. Zed'', born 1925), Canadian science educator

Other uses

* Z (named ''zed'' in Commonwealth English), a letter of the Latin alphabet * Zero-energy development, in architecture * Zonal Employee Discount, for reduced rate personal travel by airline employees * Zed card, a "portfolio on a card" used by models and actors