Elan or Élan may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

  • 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

  • Elán (band), a Slovak pop rock band
  • "Élan" (song), by Nightwish, 2015
  • Élan (Firefall album), 1978
  • Elan (Mari Hamada album), 2005

Literature

  • Elan (magazine), an online lifestyle publication

Business and organisations

  • 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, a Taiwanese manufacturer of microcontrollers
  • Élan School, a behavior modification program in Poland, Maine

People

  • 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

  • Élan, Ardennes, France
  • Elan, Bichursky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia
  • Elan Valley, Wales
  • Elan Village
  • 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

Computing and software

  • 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

  • Early left anterior negativity, an event-related potential in electrophysiology

Other uses

  • 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

See also

  • Elan Vital (disambiguation)
  • Elaan (disambiguation)
  • Eland (disambiguation)
  • Elam (disambiguation)
  • Ilan (disambiguation)
  • Poets of Elan, a group of Ecuadorian poets