Maud
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Not to be confused with Maude.
Maud may refer to:
As a feminine given name:
- Maud, 2nd Countess of Huntingdon (1074–1130), daughter of Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria and heir to his earldom of Huntingdon
- Maud Adams (born 1945), Swedish actress
- Maud Gonne (1866–1953), English-born Irish revolutionary, feminist, actress and long time poetic inspiration to William Butler Yeats
- Maud Mulder (born 1981), Dutch singer
- Maud of Wales (1869–1938), also known as "Maud, Queen of Norway", a member of the British Royal Family
- Princess Maud of Fife (1893–1945), a member of the British Royal Family
- Empress Matilda, (1102–1169), also known by her Saxon name "Maud" or "Maude", daughter of King Henry I of England and mother to King Henry II of England
As a placename:
- In Antarctica:
- Queen Maud Land (Norwegian: Dronning Maud Land), an area of 2.5 million square kilometers claimed by Norway in 1938
- In New Zealand:
- Maud Island, the second largest island in the Marlborough Sounds
- In Scotland:
- Maud, Aberdeenshire, a small town in the Buchan area of the county of Aberdeenshire
- In the United States:
- Maud, Oklahoma, a city in Pottawatomie County
- Maud, Texas, a city in Bowie County
In literature:
- Maud and other poems, an 1855 volume of poetry by English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- "Maud" (poem), title poem in the 1855 volume by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Maud, a werecat in the Inheritance trilogy
Maud may also refer to:
- Maud (ship), a ship used from 1918 to 1925 by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen in exploring the Northeast Passage (now known as the Northern Sea Route)
- MAUD Committee, the beginning of the British atomic bomb project, before the United Kingdom joined forces with the United States in the Manhattan Project
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