Elan or Élan may refer to:

People

Elan Atias Elan Atias (born September 21, 1975) is an American singer-songwriter, reggae singer.Brown, MarisaElan Biography, Allmusic, retrieved May 20, 2011 Atias performed with The Wailers, which had been the backing band for Bob Marley, on and off from ...

(born 1975), American singer-songwriter *

Elán (musician) Elán DeFan (born 1 March 1983) is a Mexican singer. known for being one of the first Latin American female songwriters to begin her career with an English language album written completely on her own and the first independent artist from Latin A ...

(born 1983), Mexican singer *

Poets of Elan A group of Ecuadorian poets born between 1905 and 1920 representing the neosymbolism or lyrical vanguard movement. These poets gravitate towards an inner, cerebral lyric, but are also moved by the decisive influence of the social movements growin ...

, 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) This is an incomplete list of characters from the Star Wars expanded universe, ''Star Wars'' expanded universe, now rebranded ''Star Wars Legends''. The accompanying works were declared non-canon to the ''Star Wars'' franchise by Lucasfilm in 2 ...

, a ''Star Wars'' character

Places

* Élan, Ardennes, 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 Villag ...

, 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) The Elan is a right tributary of the river Prut in Romania.Evaluarea hidrologică a bazi ...

, 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 Elan (russian: Елань) is a rural locality (a selo) in Bichursky District, Republic of Buryatia Buryatia, officially the Republic of Buryatia (russian: Республика Бурятия, r=Respublika Buryatiya, p=rʲɪsˈpublʲɪkə bʊˈ ...

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 sportswear ...

, a Slovenian sports equipment company * Élan, 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 Sport ...

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

Music

* Elán (band), 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, 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 a ...

, 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, 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''