Dread may refer to:
Feelings
- Angst (in existentialist thought), a deep-seated spiritual condition of insecurity and despair in the free human being
- Fear
People
Reggae musicians
- Doctor Dread (born 1954), American music producer
- Judge Dread (1945–1998), British musician
- Massive Dread (c. 1960–1994), Jamaican deejay
- Mikey Dread (1954–2008), Jamaican singer
- Ranking Dread (c. 1955–1996), Jamaican deejay
Other
- Adam Dread (born 1963), American lawyer and politician
- Zebulon Dread, South African writer
- Emmanuel Wilmer aka "Dread Wilmer" (died 2005)
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional entities
- Dread & Alive, the award-winning black comic book series created by Nicholas Da Silva aka ZOOLOOK
- Brig of Dread (Bridge of Dread), the mythological bridge to Purgatory
- Judge Dread, the alternate universe Judge Dredd from Dread Dominion
- Lord Dread, a character in the TV series Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future
Games
- Dread (role-playing game)
- Dread: The First Book of Pandemonium, a role-playing game
Other arts, entertainment, and media
- Dread (album) recorded by Living Colour
- Dread (film) directed by Anthony DiBlasi
- "Dread", a short story in Clive Barker's Books of Blood series, or the comic book or stage adaptation of the same
- Dread Broadcasting Corporation, a London pirate radio station
- Dread (forum), a Reddit-like dark web discussion forum
Other uses
- DREAD (risk assessment model)
- Dread, a model of centrifugal gun
- Dreadlocks, a hairstyle also known as dreads
See also
- Anti Dread, Polish punk rock band
- Dred (disambiguation)
- Dredd (disambiguation)
- Receptor activated solely by a synthetic ligand, also known as DREADD
- Vandread, animanga (Japanese cartoon)