Red herring (disambiguation)

A red herring is a figurative expression in which a clue or piece of information is or is intended to be misleading, or distracting from the actual question.

Red herring may refer to:

• Red herring (fallacy), the informal fallacy of presenting an argument that may in itself be valid, but does not address the issue in question.
• Kipper, a fish having been dried, smoked, and salted
• Red Herring (magazine), a magazine focused on the new technology businesses
• "Red Herring" (song), a trance single from Union Jack
• Red herring prospectus, a preliminary financial prospectus offering a new stock (in red type)
• Red Herring Artists, an artist's collective based in Brighton, England
• Red Herring Surf, a brand of surfwear in Tasmania, Australia
• A character in the cartoon series A Pup Named Scooby-Doo