NED

Ned is an English given name, sometimes short for Edward, Edmund, Edgar, or Edwin. "Ned" may have risen from generations of children hearing "mine Ed" as "my Ned" which is an example of a process linguists call rebracketing. It may refer to:

People

• Ned Beatty, American actor
• Ned Collette, Australian musician and singer-songwriter
• Ned Kelly, Australian outlaw and folk hero
• Ned Herrmann, creator of the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI)
• Ned Mandingo, a radio personality at the Bubba the Love Sponge talk show
• Ned Vizzini, American writer

Fictional

• Ned (Pushing Daisies), the main character from the television series Pushing Daisies
• Ned, a character from the television series The Tribe
• Ned Bigby, the main character of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
• Ned Flanders, a character in The Simpsons
• Ned Gerblansky, a character in the animated series South Park
• Ned Nickerson, the boyfriend of Nancy Drew
• Ned Stark, a character in A Song of Ice and Fire
• Ned Nederlander, a character played by Martin Short in Three Amigos
• Ned Plimpton, a character played by Owen Wilson in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
• Ned Ryerson, a character in Groundhog Day

Culture

• Ned (Scottish), a slang term for a Scottish urban youth who engages in hooliganism
• Ned (film), a 2003 Australian film
• Neds (film), a 2010 British film
• Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, a Nickelodeon TV show 7:00
• Ned's Newt, a 1990s Nelvana/Teletoon TV show

NED

NED can refer to:

In science and technology

• Nano-emissive display, a type of flat panel display
• NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database, a database of information on galaxies, quasars, and other astronomical objects outside the Milky Way galaxy
• National Elevation Dataset, topographic data
• A medical abbreviation for "No evidence of disease"
• North east down axial system

In business

• New England Digital, a synthesizer company
• A Non-executive director of a company

In organisations

• National Endowment for Democracy
• New English Dictionary, the original title of the Oxford English Dictionary
• NED University of Engineering and Technology in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
• Nederland 1 also known as NED 1, a Dutch television channel
• Nederland 2 also known as NED 2, a Dutch television channel
• Nederland 3 also known as NED 3, a Dutch television channel

In international relations

• IOC and FIFA code for the Netherlands

Other uses

• "New Engine Desperado", a type of UK railfan, see list of UK railfan jargon