Dud (disambiguation)
A dud is an ammunition round or explosive that fails to fire or detonate, respectively.
Dud or Dudd may also refer to:
People
[edit]- Dudd (died between 781 and 785), Bishop of Winchester
- William Odell Dud Bascomb (1916–1972), American jazz trumpeter
- Dudley Dud Beattie (1934–2016), Australian rugby league footballer
- Edgar Dudley Dud Branom (1897–1980), American Major League Baseball infielder
- Dudley DeGroot (1899–1970), American athlete and college and National Football League head coach
- Dudd or Dud Dudley (1600–1684), English metallurgist, soldier, military engineer and munitions supplier
- William Dudley Dud Lastrapes (born 1929), American businessman and politician - see List of mayors of Lafayette, Louisiana
- Ernest Dud Lee (1899–1971), American backup Major League Baseball infielder
- Dudley Dud Millard (1901–1954), Australian rugby league player
- Dudley Perkins (motorcyclist) (1893–1978), American champion motorcycle hillclimb competitor and Harley-Davidson motorcycle dealer
- Dudley Richards (1932–1961), American figure skater
- Yuri Dud (born 1986), Russian journalist and YouTuber
Fictional characters
[edit]- Dud, played by Dudley Moore - see Pete and Dud
- Dudley A. "Dud" Wash, one of The Darlings, recurring characters in the TV series The Andy Griffith Show
- Dudd, in Glumpers, a Spanish animated TV series
Other uses
[edit]- Delap-Uliga-Djarrit, an urban area in Majuro, Marshall Islands
- Duds, a 1920 American silent mystery film
- Dud, a village in the commune of Târnova, Arad, Romania
- dud, ISO 639-3 code for the Hun-Saare language of Nigeria
- DUD, IATA code for Dunedin Airport, Dunedin, New Zealand
- Dud, obsolete slang for clothing, now referred to as duds
See also
[edit]- Milk Duds, a candy
- USS Captain Dud (ID-3507), a US Navy floating derrick
- Dud Murra of Wadai (the lion of Murra), last independent ruler of the Wadai Empire (1901–1909)