Elan
Appearance
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Elan or Élan may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
[edit]Fictional characters
[edit]- Elan (Order of the Stick), in the webcomic The Order of the Stick
- Elan (Dungeons & Dragons), a race in Dungeons & Dragons
- Elan (Star Wars Legends), a Star Wars character
Music
[edit]- Elán (band), a Slovak pop rock band
- "Élan" (song), by Nightwish, 2015
- Élan (Firefall album), 1978
- Elan (Mari Hamada album), 2005
Literature
[edit]- Elan (magazine), an online lifestyle publication
Business and organisations
[edit]- Elan (company), a Slovenian sports equipment company
- Élan, an Irish pharmaceutical company
- Elan Financial Services, a subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp
- Élan Motorsport Technologies, an American race car manufacturing consortium
- ELAN Microelectronics Corp., a Taiwanese manufacturer of microcontrollers
- Élan School, a school in Poland, Maine
People
[edit]- Elán (musician) (born 1983), Mexican singer
- Elan Atias (born 1975), American singer-songwriter
- Elan Carr (born 1968), American attorney and politician
- Elan Closs Stephens (born 1948), Welsh academic
- Elan Daley (born 2005), Bermudian swimmer
- Elan Gale (born 1983), American author
- Elan Lee, American game designer
- Elan Lee Buller (born 1979), American basketball player
- Elan Mastai, Canadian screenwriter and novelist
- Elan Portnoy, American musician
- Elan Sicroff (born 1950), American pianist
- Elan (director), Indian film director
Places
[edit]- Élan, Ardennes, France
- Elan, Bichursky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia
- Elan Valley, Wales
- Afon Elan, a river in Wales
- Elan (Prut), a river in Romania
- Élan School, an abusive behavioral correction facility that shut down in 2011
Science and technology
[edit]Computing and software
[edit]- AMD Élan, a microchip
- Elan, another name for the 1980s Enterprise home computer
- Elan Graphics, computer graphics architecture
- ELAN (programming language)
- ELAN software, for transcription and annotation
Medicine
[edit]- Early left anterior negativity, an event-related potential in electrophysiology
Other uses
[edit]- Greek People's Liberation Navy (Ελληνικό Λαϊκό Απελευθερωτικό Ναυτικό), commonly abbreviated as ELAN
- Lotus Elan, a car model, and later variant Kia Elan
- Elan (snowmobile), by Skidoo
- French sloop Élan, a minesweeping vessel
- Elan Sportif, a Beninese basketball club