ADW may refer to:

• Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic (German: Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, AdW)
• Addiewell railway station, West Lothian, Scotland
• Advance-deposit wagering
• ADW.Launcher, an alternative home screen for the Android operating system
• Amondawa language
• Andrew Dickson White, diplomat, historian and first president of Cornell University
• Animal Diversity Web, a natural sciences database at the University of Michigan
• Archdiocese of Washington
• Assault with a deadly weapon, an abbreviation used in sentencing descriptions
• Atlanta Daily World, a newspaper

• Air Andaman, a defunct Thai airline
• Andrews Field, a military airfield in Maryland, United States
• IATA airport code for Joint Base Andrews in Camp Springs, State of Maryland, USA