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A dud is an ammunition round or explosive that fails to fire or detonate, respectively.

Dud or Dudd may also refer to:

People

• 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 sports editor

Fictional characters

• 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

• Delap-Uliga-Djarrit, an urban area in Majuro, Marshall Islands
• Duds, a 1920 American silent mystery film
• Der Blindgänger, or The Dud, a 2004 short German film by Andreas Samland
• 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
• Slang for clothing

See also

• 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)