Read or READ may refer to:

• Read (computer), to retrieve data from a storage device
• Read (system call), a low-level IO function on a file descriptor in a computer
• Read (Unix), a command in Unix operating systems

• Read, Lancashire, England, a village
• Read, West Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community
• Read Township, Clayton County, Iowa, United States
• Read Township, Butler County, Nebraska, United States
• Read Mountains, Coats Land, Antarctica
• Mount Read, a mountain in Tasmania, Australia
• Read Island, British Columbia, Canada

• Read (surname), including a list of people with this surname
• Read Montague (born 1960) American neuroscientist and popular science author
• Read Viemeister (1922–1993), American industrial designer
• Miss Read (1913–2012), pen name of British author Dora Jessie Saint

• Reading Excellence and Discovery Foundation, a non-profit charitable organization founded in 1999
• READ Global, a non-profit organization operating in rural South Asia
• READ International, a charity that aims to improve access to education in East Africa
• Rural Educational and Development Foundation, a not-for-profit educational network in rural Pakistan
• Reading Education Assistance Dogs, an organization promoting literacy using therapy dogs

• Read (automobile), an American car manufactured from 1913 to 1915
• Read (biology), an inferred sequence of base pairs of a DNA fragment
• Read codes, a standard clinical terminology system used in General Practice in the United Kingdom
• Read Bridge, Singapore
• Read (magazine), a children's magazine
• Read School (disambiguation)
• Read (theatre), to perform the dialog of a play
• Read (transgender), a term in gender identity
• Chicago-Read Mental Health Center in Chicago, Illinois
• The Read, a weekly one-hour pop culture podcast
• Arthur Read, a fictional anthropomorphic aardvark

• Read's Island, Humber Estuary, England
• Reads (disambiguation)
• Justice Read (disambiguation)
• Reading (disambiguation)
• Reed (disambiguation)
• Reid (disambiguation)
• Redd (disambiguation)
• Red (disambiguation)
• Rede (disambiguation)
• Rhead
• Reade (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Read