An elephant is a large, grey mammal native to Africa and southern Asia.

Elephant may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

  • Elephant (1989 film), directed by Alan Clarke
  • Elephant (1993 film), a public information film about seat belt use in the UK
  • Elephant (2003 film), directed by Gus Van Sant
  • Elephant (2020 film), a Disney nature documentary
  • "The Elephant" (Bagpuss), a 1974 children's television episode
  • "Elephants", a Series E episode of the television series QI (2007)

Music

  • Elephant (album), a 2003 album by the White Stripes
  • L'Éléphant, a movement of The Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saëns
  • "Elephant" (Alexandra Burke song), a 2012 song by Alexandra Burke
  • "Elephant" (Margaret song), a 2016 song by Margaret
  • "Elephants" (song), a 2008 song by Warpaint
  • "L'Elephant", a song from the album Tom Tom Club by Tom Tom Club
  • "Elephant", a song from the album 9 by Damien Rice
  • "Elephant" (Tame Impala song), a 2012 song by Tame Impala and covered by the Wiggles in 2021
  • "Elephants", a song from the album Them Crooked Vultures by Them Crooked Vultures
  • "Elephant", a song from the 2012 album Hannah Georgas by Hannah Georgas
  • "Elephant", from Excellent Italian Greyhound by Shellac
  • "The Elephant Song" (song), a 1975 song by Kamahl

Other

  • Elephant (sculpture), a 1934 sculpture in Szczecin, Poland
  • The Elephants (Los Elefantes), a 1948 painting by Salvador Dalí
  • Elephant and Other Stories, a 1988 story collection by Raymond Carver

Places

Antarctica

  • Elephant Flats, Signy Island
  • Elephant Island, South Shetland Islands
  • Elephant Moraine, Victoria Land
  • Elephant Point, Livingston Island
  • Elephant Ridge, Alexander Island
  • Elephant Rocks (Antarctica), Palmer Archipelago

Subantarctic

  • Elephant Cays, Falkland Islands
  • Elephant Cove, South Georgia
  • Elephant Lagoon, South Georgia
  • Elephant Spit, Heard Island

United States

  • Elephant, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community
  • Elephant Arch, a sandstone formation in Utah
  • Elephant Butte (Arches National Park)
  • Elephant Mountain (Oxford County, Maine)
  • Elephant Mountain (Piscataquis County, Maine)
  • Elephant Peak, a mountain in Montana
  • Elephant Point (Alaska)
  • Elephants Tooth, a pillar in Arizona

Elsewhere

  • Mount Elephant, Victoria, Australia
  • Dâmrei Mountains (Elephant Mountains), Cambodia
  • Elephant and Castle, an area of London, England, informally called "the Elephant"
  • The Elephant, a mountain in Milford Sound, New Zealand
  • Elephant Rock (disambiguation)

Buildings

  • Elephant Building, a high-rise in Bangkok, Thailand
  • Elephant Packing House, Fullerton, California
  • Edward Gorey House, also known as Elephant House, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
  • Elephant Hotel, Somers, New York

Military uses

  • Olifant (tank), main battle tank of the South African Army
  • Elefant, German WWII tank destroyer
  • , the name of various British Royal Navy ships
  • Martinsyde G.100 "Elephant", a British First World War bomber aircraft
  • 103 Squadron (Israel) or the Elephants Squadron
  • Operation Elephant, part of the World War II Battle for the Kapelsche Veer in the Netherlands

Business

  • Elephant.co.uk, a UK motor insurance company
  • Elephant Memory Systems, a computer floppy disk manufacturer
  • Elephant Field, an oilfield in Libya's Murzuq Basin
  • Elephant Gate and Tower, Carlsberg
  • Elephant beer, a beer brewed by Carlsberg Brewery of Denmark

Sports and games

  • Ivory Coast national football team, nicknamed the Elephants
  • Elephant Rally, a motorcycle rally in Germany
  • Elephant Gambit, a rarely used chess opening

Other uses

  • Al-Fil ("The Elephant"), the 105th sura of the Qur'an
  • Elephant (pharaoh), an ancient Egyptian protodynastic ruler
  • Elephant seal, two species of large seals in the genus Mirounga
  • Elephant (de Camp book), a science book by L. Sprague de Camp
  • Elephant, a digital fat face typeface
  • Elephant folio, a book size
  • Order of the Elephant, the highest order of Denmark
  • The Elephant, a nickname for the 426 cu in Chrysler V8 engine
  • White elephant, an idiom for impractical possessions that are expensive and hard to dispose of
  • Elephant in the room, an idiom for a large and obvious but unmentioned problem

See also

  • , the name of various Royal Danish Navy ships
  • ElePHPant, the mascot of the PHP scripting/programming language project
  • Elefant (disambiguation)
  • Oliphant (disambiguation), derived from an archaic spelling