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)