ARD
# ARD

ARD or Ard may refer to:

## Arts and media

* ARD (broadcaster), the German public broadcaster
   * Das Erste, their main television channel
   * ARD International Music Competition
* Ard, a character in the 1981 film Heavy Metal

## Military

* Army Reconnaissance Detachment 10, a special forces unit of the Swiss Armed Forces
* US Navy hull classification symbol for an auxiliary repair dry dock

## People

* Ard (surname), a surname of Scottish origin
* Ard (biblical figure), a son of Benjamin in the Bible
* Ard., abbreviation in scientific literature for botanist Pietro Arduino

## Places

### Republic of Ireland

* Ardpatrick, County Limerick
* Ardpatrick, a townland in County Louth

### United Kingdom

* Ard, Inverness, Scotland
* Ardgay railway station, Scotland
* Ardpatrick, Argyll, Scotland
* Ardpatrick, a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland

### United States

* Ard, Arkansas
* Ardmore station (Pennsylvania) (by Amtrak code)

### Elsewhere

* Arad, Iran
* Alor Island Airport, Indonesia (IATA: ARD)

## Politics

* Alliance for Restoration of Democracy, a Pakistani political movement
* Democratic Republican Alliance, Alliance Républicaine Démocratique or ARD, a French political party of the Third Republic
* Republican Alliance for Democracy, an opposition party in Djibouti (Alliance Républicaine pour le Développement)
* Right Romania Alliance, Alianţa România Dreaptăa, short-lived electoral alliance in Romania

## Science and technology

* Ard (plough), a simple plough
* Acid rock drainage, the outflow of acidic water from mines
* Acireductone dioxygenase (iron(II)-requiring), an enzyme
* Aging-associated disease, diseases of senescence
* Alcohol-related dementia
* Antimicrobial Removal Device, Marion Laboratories product
* Apple Remote Desktop, computer application
* Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator, ESA spacecraft
* Auxiliary repair dock

## Other uses

* Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition, an American pretrial intervention program
* American Research and Development Corporation, one of the first venture capital firms
* Ard Patrick (foaled 1899), a horse
