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