Mad

**Mad**, **mad**, or **MAD** may refer to:

## Geography

- Mad (village), a village in the Dunajská Streda District of Slovakia
- Mád, a village in Hungary
- Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, by IATA airport code
- Mad River (disambiguation), several rivers

### Bands

- Mad (band), a rock band from Buenos Aires, Argentina
- M.A.D (band), a British boyband
- M.A.D. (punk band), a 1980s band, which later became Blast
- Meg and Dia, an American indie rock band

### Albums

- _Mad_ (Raven EP), released in 1986
- _Mad_ (Hadouken! EP), released in 2009
- _Mad_ (GOT7 EP), released 2015

### Songs

- "Mad" (Ne-Yo song),  2008
- "Mad", by Dave Dudley from _Talk of the Town_, 1964
- "Mad", from _Secret Life of Harpers Bizarre_, 1968
- "Mad", by The Lemonheads from _Lick_, 1989
- "Mad", from the album _Magnetic Man_, 2010
- "Mad", by Cassie Steele, 2014
- "M・A・D" (Buck-Tick song), 1991

## Organizations

- MAD Studio, an architectural firm
- Make A Difference, an Indian NGO
- Might and Delight, a Swedish video game development studio
- _Militärischer Abschirmdienst_, German military counterintelligence agency
- Museum of Arts and Design, New York City, US
- Mechanical Art and Design museum, in Stratford-upon-Avon

## Science and technology

- MAD (programming language), for Michigan Algorithm Decoder
- Magnetic anomaly detector, detects minute variations in Earth's magnetic field
- Maritime anomaly detection in Global Maritime Situational Awareness, for avoiding maritime collisions
- Mathematicians of the African Diaspora, website highlighting mathematical contributions of members of the African diaspora
- Methodical Accelerator Design, a CERN scripting language
- Modified Atkins diet, a specific form of ketogenic diet
- Mothers against decapentaplegic, a gene discovered in _Drosophila_
- MPEG Audio Decoder, audio decompression software
- Multi-conjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator, an astronomical method
- Multi-wavelength anomalous dispersion, a technique used in X-ray crystallography

## Statistics

- Mean absolute deviation, a measure of the variability of quantitative data
- Mean absolute difference, a measure of statistical dispersion
- Median absolute deviation, a statistical measure of variability

## Television and video

- _Mad TV_, a 1995–2009 American sketch comedy television series inspired by Mad magazine
- _Mad_ (TV series), a 2010–2013 television series on Cartoon Network based on the magazine
- MAD TV (Greece), a Greek music channel
- _M.A.D._ (Indian TV programme), a 2005–2010 Indian children's educational television programme that aired on Pogo TV
- M.A.D., the evil organization run by Doctor Claw in _Inspector Gadget_
- "M.A.D." (_Veronica Mars_), a 2005 episode of the American television series _Veronica Mars_
- MAD, music anime douga, a Japanese term for fan-made anime music video

## Other uses

- _Mad_ (magazine), an American humor magazine
- Mad, a term for insanity used chiefly in British English
- Mad, a term for anger used chiefly in US English
- Mutual assured destruction, nuclear warfare deterrence concept
- Mandibuloacral dysplasia
- MAD Moroccan dirham (ISO 4217 code), the currency of Morocco
- mad, the ISO 639-2 code for the Madurese language