Shad (disambiguation)

A shad is a herring-like fish of the subfamily Alosinae, particularly of the genus Alosa.

Shad may also refer to:

People

 * Shad (rapper), born Shadrach Kabango, Canadian hip hop musician
 * Shad Barry, American baseball player
 * Shad Darsigny (born 2003), Canadian weightlifter
 * Shad Gaspard, (1981–2020) American wrestler
 * Shad Saleem Faruqi, Malaysian law professor
 * Shad Meier, American football player
 * Shad Gregory Moss, better known as Bow Wow
 * Shad Pearce, Arkansas State Representative
 * Shad Petosky, American comics writer
 * Shad Qadri, Canadian politician
 * Shad Royston, Australian rugby player
 * John S.R. Shad, American politician and diplomat
 * Shad Tubman, or William V.S. Tubman, Jr. in full

Places

 * Shad, Iran, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
 * Shad Bagh in Punjab, Pakistan
 * Shad Cam, extreme southern portion of Mount Wellington in New York.
 * Shad Bay, Nova Scotia
 * Shad, West Virginia
 * Shad Thames, a London street

Organizations and events

 * Shad Alliance, American anti-nuclear group
 * Shad Planking, an annual Virginian political event
 * Canadian Forces Naval Reserve, The Reserve Component of Canadian Forces Maritime Command whose members are commonly referred to as "Shads"
 * SHAD (summer program) (formerly Shad Valley), Canadian non-for-profit organization and summer enrichment program for high school students

Transportation

 * Shad boat, a type of boat
 * Shad-Wyck, American automobile
 * USS Shad, the name of more than one United States Navy ship
 * Kingston-class coastal defence vessel, a class of commissioned vessels of the Canadian Navy crewed by reservists, commonly referred to as "Shadillacs"

Other

 * ShAD, Ground Attack Aviation Division of the Soviet Air Forces
 * Shad (Wild Cards), fictional character in the Wild Cards book series
 * Shad (prince), Turkic title
 * Amelanchier, also known as shadbush, shadblow, and shadwood
 * Mayfly, also known as a shadfly
 * Project SHAD, American military project
 * Danda, a punctuation mark known as "shad" when writing Tibetan or ʼPhags-pa
 * Rgya Gram Shad, the Tibetan character "༒"
 * The Shad Treatment, 1977 novel by Garrett Epps