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Mad, mad, MAD or M. A. D. 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

Music

• MAD Solutions, a Nigerian music distribution company

Bands

• M.A.D (band), British boyband from London, England
• M.A.D. (punk band), American hardcore punk band from Santa Cruz, California; later known as Blast
• Meg and Dia, American indie rock band from Draper, Utah

Albums

• Mad (Got7 EP), 2015
• Mad (Hadouken! EP), 2009
• Mad (Raven EP), 1986
• Mad!, album by Sparks, 2025

Songs

• "Mad" (song), by Ne-Yo, 2008
• "Mad", by Cassie Steele, 2014
• "Mad", by Dave Dudley from Talk of the Town, 1964
• "Mad", by Harpers Bizarre from Secret Life of Harpers Bizarre, 1968
• "Mad", by Isyana Sarasvati from Paradox, 2017
• "Mad", by The Lemonheads from Lick, 1989
• "Mad", by Magnetic Man from Magnetic Man, 2010
• "Mad", by Renee Rapp from Bite Me, 2025
• "M・A・D", by Buck-Tick from Kurutta Taiyou, 1991

Organizations

• MAD Studio, an architectural firm
• Mad Computers, defunct American computer company
• MAD Solutions, a Nigerian music distribution company
• MAD Solutions, a sales and distribution agent, founder/supporter of the Arab Cinema Center in Egypt
• Make A Difference, an Indian NGO
• Might and Delight, a Swedish video game development studio
• Militärischer Abschirmdienst, German military counterintelligence agency

Museums

• Museum of Arts and Design, New York City, US
• Mechanical Art and Design museum, in Stratford-upon-Avon
• Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris

Science and technology

• MAD (programming language), for Michigan Algorithm Decoder
• MAD, a protein encoded by the MXD1 gene
• Magnetic anomaly detector, detects variations in Earth's magnetic field
• Maritime anomaly detection in Global Maritime Situational Awareness, for avoiding maritime collisions
• Mathematicians of the African Diaspora, a website
• Methodical Accelerator Design, a CERN scripting language
• Modified Atkins diet
• Model Autophagy Disorder, a variant of model collapse, the gradual degradation in the output of a generative artificial intelligence model trained on synthetic data intelligence
• Mothers against decapentaplegic, a protein
• MPEG Audio Decoder, software
• Multi-conjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator, an astronomical instrument
• Multi-wavelength anomalous dispersion, an X-ray crystallography technique
• Mitral annular disjunction, a structural abnormality of the heart

Statistics

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

Television and video

• Mad TV, a 1995–2009 US series
• The Mad, a 2007 Canadian horror/comedy film
• Mad (TV series), 2010–2013, on Cartoon Network
• MAD TV (TV channel), a music channel
• M.A.D. (Indian TV programme), 2005–2010, children's educational programme
• M.A.D., organization in Inspector Gadget
• "M.A.D." (Veronica Mars), a 2005 episode

Other uses

• Mad (magazine), an American humor magazine
• Mad (manga), a post-apocalyptic manga series written by Yusuke Otori
• Mad, a term for insanity used chiefly in British English
• Mad, a term for anger used chiefly in US English
• Mary Andrews Denison (1826–1911) American author, who wrote under these initials
• Madagascar, IOC country code
• Mutual assured destruction, nuclear warfare deterrence concept
• Mandibuloacral dysplasia
• Moroccan dirham, the currency of Morocco by ISO 4217 currency code
• mad, the ISO 639-2 code for the Madurese language

See also

• MADD (disambiguation)
• Mad TV (disambiguation)
• Rabies, (Latin rabies for "madness")
• Mad, a variant of the Hindi-Urdu word for alcohol, madhu
• Madness (disambiguation)
• List of people known as the Mad