Elan or Élan may refer to:

People

* Elan Atias (born 1975), American singer-songwriter * Elán (musician) (born 1983), Mexican singer * Poets of Elan, a group of Ecuadorian poets

Fictional characters

* Elan (Order of the Stick), a character in the webcomic ''The Order of the Stick'' * Elan (Dungeons & Dragons), a fictional race in ''Dungeons & Dragons'' * Elan (Star Wars Legends), a ''Star Wars'' character

Places

Élan, Ardennes Élan () is a former commune in the Ardennes department in the Grand Est region in northern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the commune Flize. The commune was the home of , founded in the 12th century by Roger of Ellant. Popula ...

, a commune of the Ardennes ''département'' in France *

Elan Valley The Elan Valley ( cy, Cwm Elan) is a river valley situated to the west of Rhayader, in Powys, Wales, sometimes known as the "Welsh Lake District". It covers of lake and countryside. The valley contains the Elan Valley Reservoirs and Elan Villa ...

, a valley in Wales *

Afon Elan The Afon Elan ( en, River Elan) is a tributary of the River Wye which runs through the wide expanse of upland moors, traditionally known as Elenydd, in central Wales. Its valley is the Elan Valley. The name probably arises from ''elain'' meani ...

, a river in Wales * Elan (Prut), a river in eastern Romania *

Élan School Élan School was a private, coeducational, and controversial residential behavior modification program and therapeutic boarding school in Poland, Androscoggin County, Maine. It was a full member of the National Association of Therapeutic Schools ...

, a private boarding school in Poland, Maine * Elan, Bichursky District, Republic of Buryatia

Companies

Elan (company) Elan is a Slovenian company, located in Begunje na Gorenjskem, specializing in the production of sporting goods. It is best known for its skis and snowboards. Other products include sailboats from length, motor yachts, apparel (mostly sportswe ...

, a Slovenian sports equipment company *

Élan Elan Corporation plc was a major drugs firm based in Dublin, Ireland, which had major interests in the United States. It was listed on the New York Stock Exchange as ELN, the Irish Stock Exchange as ELN.I, and the London Stock Exchange as ELN. ...

, a pharmaceutical company based in Athlone, County Roscommon, Ireland *

Élan Motorsport Technologies Élan Motorsport Technologies is an American enterprise that serves as an umbrella company containing the race car engineering, development and manufacturing companies owned by American racing and automotive company conglomerate Panoz Motor Spor ...

, a race car manufacturing consortium based in the United States * ELAN Microelectronics Corp., a Taiwanese manufacturer of microcontrollers

Music

Elán (band) Elán is a Slovak pop rock band founded in 1968 by elementary school classmates Jožo Ráž, Vašo Patejdl, Juraj Farkaš, and Zdeno Baláž. They became one of the most popular Czechoslovak bands during the 1980s, releasing ten successful ...

, a Slovak rock band * "Élan" (song), a 2015 single by Nightwish * ''Elan'' (Firefall album), 1978 * ''Elan'' (Mari Hamada album), 2005

Acronyms

Early left anterior negativity The early left anterior negativity (commonly referred to as ELAN) is an event-related potential in electroencephalography (EEG), or component of brain activity that occurs in response to a certain kind of stimulus. It is characterized by a negativ ...

, an event-related potential in electrophysiology * ELAN, acronym for ''Elliniko Laiko Apeleftherotiko Naftiko'', the

Greek People's Liberation Navy The Greek People's Liberation Navy (; ''Elliniko Laiko Apeleftherotiko Naftiko''), commonly abbreviated as ELAN (ΕΛΑΝ), was the naval force of the communist-led Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) resistance movement during World War II, a ...

Computing and software

*Elan, another name for the 1980s

Enterprise 128 The Enterprise is a Zilog Z80-based home computer announced in 1983, but through a series of delays, not commercially available until 1985. The specification as released was powerful and one of the higher end in its class (though not by the m ...

home computer *

Elan Graphics Elan Graphics is a computer graphics architecture for Silicon Graphics computer workstations. Elan Graphics was developed in 1991 and was available as a high-end graphics option on workstations released during the mid-1990s as part of the Expres ...

, computer graphics subsystem for mid-1990s Silicon Graphics workstations *

ELAN (programming language) ELAN is an interpreted educational programming language for learning and teaching systematic programming. It was developed in 1974 by C.H.A. Koster and a group at the Technical University of Berlin as an alternative to BASIC in teaching, and ap ...

, an educational programming language developed in the 1970s * ELAN (software) (The EUDICO Linguistic Annotator), software for transcription and annotation of audio and video

Other uses

Kia Elan Lotus Elan is the name of two separate ranges of automobiles produced by Lotus Cars. The first series of cars was produced between 1962 and 1975 as a rear-wheel drive vehicle. The second series was produced between 1989 and 1995 as a front-wheel ...

, car model *

Lotus Elan Lotus Elan is the name of two separate ranges of automobiles produced by Lotus Cars. The first series of cars was produced between 1962 and 1975 as a rear-wheel drive vehicle. The second series was produced between 1989 and 1995 as a front-wheel ...

, a car model *

Elan (snowmobile) The Élan was a popular snowmobile variant of Ski-Doo Ski-Doo is a brand name of snowmobile manufactured by Bombardier Recreational Products (originally Bombardier Inc. before the spin-off). The Ski-Doo personal snowmobile brand is so iconic, ...

, a model of snowmobile made by Skidoo * ''Elan'' (magazine), an online lifestyle publication * French sloop ''Élan''