Elan

Elan may refer to:

Real or fictional people:

  • Elan Atias, American singer-songwriter
  • Elán (recording artist), Mexican singer
  • Elan (Order of the Stick), a character in the webcomic The Order of the Stick
  • The poets of Elan, a group of Ecuadorian poets
  • Elan Morin Tedronai, the true name of Ishamael in Robert Jordan's fictional series The Wheel of Time

Places:

  • Élan, Ardennes, a commune of the Ardennes département in France
  • Elan Valley, a valley in Wales
  • Élan School, a private boarding school in Poland, Maine

Companies:

  • Elan (company), a Slovenian sports equipment company
  • Élan, a drug firm based in Athlone, County Roscommon, Ireland
  • Élan Motorsport Technologies, a race car manufacturing consortium based in the United States
  • Elan Group Ltd, a Manpower Inc. company in the UK
  • Elan Financial Services, a credit card issuer owned by U.S. Bancorp
  • ELAN Microelectronics Corp., a Taiwanese manufacturer of microcontrollers

Automobile-related:

  • Kia Elan, car model
  • Lotus Elan, a car model

Computer-related:

  • ELAN, an emulated LAN
  • Elan, another name for the 1980s Enterprise 128 home computer
  • Elan Graphics, computer graphics subsystem for mid-1990s Silicon Graphics workstations
  • ELAN (programming language), an educational programming language developed in the 1970s
  • Élan 5xx, a family of microcontrollers marketed by AMD based on the Am5x86 microprocessor
  • ELAN (EUDICO Linguistic Annotator), a tool for the creation of annotations on video and audio resources

Other uses:

  • Elan (properly élan), a French loanword for "zeal or ardor"
  • ELAN, acronym for Elliniko Laiko Apeleftherotiko Naftiko, the Greek People's Liberation Navy
  • Elan (surname), a common surname
  • Elan (Dungeons & Dragons), a fictional race in Dungeons & Dragons
  • Elán (band), a Slovak rock band
  • Elan (bass guitar), a bass guitar made by Alembic
  • Elan (snowmobile), a model of snowmobile made by Skidoo
  • Elán (journal), a Slovak poetry journal (1930–1947)
  • Canon Elan, a series of SLR cameras from Canon
  • Early left anterior negativity, an event-related potential in electrophysiology
  • Elan (IIT Hyderabad), the annual technical/cultural festival of Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad