George Herbert Mead (1863-1931), philosopher

Margaret Mead (1901-1978), anthropologist

Mead usually refers to mead, the alcoholic drink made from honey. It may also refer to:

Mead, Oklahoma, US town

Mead, Colorado, US town

Lake Mead, artificial lake on the Colorado River created by the Hoover Dam

Phil Mead (1887-1958), English cricketer

Mead, Nebraska, US village

MEADS (Medium Extended Air Defense System)

Meade Instruments, optical instrument manufacturer

Syd Mead (b.1933), industrial designer, worked on films such as Blade Runner

MeadWestvaco, office and school products company; merger of Mead and Westvaco.

Walter Russell Mead (present day), American foreign thinker

Chris Mead (1940-2003), ornithologist

David Mead (b.1973), American singer-songwriter

Richard Mead (1673-1754), English physician

Elwood Mead (1858-1936), US politician and engineer, head of the Bureau of Reclamation

Meade (surname), alternate spelling of the Mead surname

Meads, an area of the town of Eastbourne

Darren Mead (b.1971), Australian rules footballer

Charlie Mead (b. 1921), Canadian baseball player

Courtland Mead (b.1987), US actor, best known for playing Danny Torrance in Stephen King's The Shining

Mead, Washington, US town

Mi'ad, also misspelled "mead", an Arabic term for resurrection

Walter Mead (1869-1954), Essex cricketer

William Rutherford Mead (1846-1928), structural engineer, co-founder of the architecture firm McKim, Mead, and White