Red herring may refer to:
- Red herring (narrative), a technique used in literature to mislead the audience
- Kipper, a fish having been dried, smoked, and salted
- Red Herring (magazine), a magazine focused on the new technology businesses
- The Red Herring (magazine), a comedy magazine at McGill University in Montreal, Canada
- Red herring fallacy, a logical fallacy in which one purports to prove one's point by means of irrelevant arguments
- 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
- Red Herring, a character in the cartoon series A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
- A false clue or an unimportant location that can waste precious time in a criminal case by throwing an unsuspecting investigator for a loop.
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