VDW can refer to one of the following:
- Van der Waals:
- Johannes Diderik van der Waals, a Dutch physicist and thermodynamicist
- the van der Waals force
- the van der Waals equation
- the van der Waals radius
- Van der Waals (crater)
- Federation of German Scientists (Vereinigung Deutscher Wissenschaftler)
- Verbond tot Democratisering der Weermacht, a Dutch political party
- VDW (TV station), a digital television station in Western Australia