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Ned or NED may refer to:

People

• Ned (given name)
• Ned (Scottish), a slang term for a Scottish urban youth who engages in hooliganism

Organisations

• National Endowment for Democracy, a U.S. non-profit organization
• NED University of Engineering and Technology, named after Nadirshaw Edulji Dinshaw, located in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

In arts and entertainment

• Ned (film), a 2003 Australian film
• Neds (film), a 2010 British film
• N.E.D., a rock band consisted of medical doctors
• Ned, the title character of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, a Nickelodeon sitcom
• Ned, the title character of Ned's Newt, a 1990s Canadian animated series
• Ned, the title character of The Misfortune of Being Ned, a webseries

For a full list of fictional characters named Ned, see Ned (given name)#Fictional characters.

In science, technology and medicine

• Named entity disambiguation, the task of determining the identity of entities mentioned in text
• Nano-emissive display, a type of flat panel display
• NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database, a database of information on astronomical objects outside the Milky Way galaxy
• National Elevation Dataset, topographic data
• NED, National edeposit, an Australian online depository for legal deposit of electronic documents
• NED, acronym for "No evidence of disease", a term used by oncologists to describe the condition of a person with cancer who has been successfully treated and is in complete remission
• North east down axial system
• NED, acronym for "Nasal EPAP Dilator," a term used for a nasal device that combines nasal dilation with nasal EPAP (Expiratory Positive Air Pressure) to treat snoring and sleep disordered breathing

In business

• New England Digital, a discontinued company producing music synthesizers
• A non-executive director of a company
• The Ned, a hotel at Midland Bank, Poultry

Other uses

• Ned (snail) (d. 2026), New Zealand snail with a sinistral (left-spiraling) shell
• Ned, Tullyhunco, a townland in the parish of Killeshandra, barony of Tullyhunco, county of Cavan, Ireland
• Nederland, or the Netherlands, a country of which the IOC and FIFA abbreviation is NED
• "New Engine Desperado", a type of UK railfan, see Glossary of United Kingdom railway terms
• New English Dictionary, the original title of the Oxford English Dictionary