Electra Electra (; grc, Ήλέκτρα) is one of the most popular mythological characters in tragedies.Evans (1970), p. 79 She is the main character in two Greek tragedies, '' Electra'' by Sophocles and '' Electra'' by Euripides. She is also the centra ...

was a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra in Greek mythology. Electra or Elektra may also refer to:

Greek mythology

* Electra (Pleiad), one of the Pleiades * Electra, one of the Danaids, daughter of Danaus and

Polyxo Polyxo (; Ancient Greek: Πολυξώ ''Poluxṓ'') is the name of several figures in Greek mythology: *Polyxo, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys. *Polyxo, one of the Hyades.''Hygin ...

Electra (Oceanid) In Greek mythology, Electra (; ) was one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys. Family According to Hesiod, she was the wife of Thaumas, and by him, the mother of Iris, the goddess o ...

, the wife of Thaumas and mother of Iris and the Harpies

Places

Terrestrial features

Mount Electra Mount Electra () is a prominent peak, over high, immediately west of Mount Dido in the Olympus Range of Victoria Land. It was named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (1958–59) for Electra Electra (; grc, Ήλέκ ...

* Electra Lake

Outer space

Electra (star) Electra , designated 17 Tauri, is a blue-white giant star in the constellation of Taurus (constellation), Taurus. It is the third-brightest star in the Pleiades Open cluster, open star cluster (Messier object, M45); the most visible star ...

, 17 Tauri *

130 Elektra Elektra ( minor planet designation: 130 Elektra) is a large outer main-belt asteroid and quadruple system with three minor-planet moons. It was discovered on 17 February 1873, by astronomer Christian Peters at Litchfield Observatory, New York, ...

, an asteroid

Municipalities

Electra, California Electra (formerly, Whites Bar) is a former settlement in Amador County, California. It lay on the north bank of the Mokelumne River The Mokelumne River ( or ; ''Mokelumne'', Miwok for "People of the Fish Net") is a -long river in northern Ca ...

Electra, Texas Electra is a city in Wichita County, Texas, United States. It is part of the Wichita Falls metropolitan statistical area. The population was 2,791 at the 2010 census., down from 3,168 in 2000. Electra claims the title of Pump Jack Capital of ...

Electra, Queensland Electra is a rural locality in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ...

, a locality in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia

Buildings

Electra (San Diego) Electra is San Diego's tallest condominium community and was until 2014 the tallest residential high rise building in San Diego, California, United States, with a height of 144.8 meters. It comprises 43 floors and 248 rooms, and was completed in 2 ...

, a condominium tower located in downtown San Diego * Electra Building, Vancouver, a skyscraper * Electra House, a building at 84 Moorgate, London, England *

Electra High School Electra High School is a public high school in Electra, Texas. It is part of the Electra Independent School District located in western Wichita County. In 2013, Electra High School was rated " Improvement Required" by the Texas Education Agency. ...

Electra Tower The Electra Tower, previously Amkor Tower or Elco Tower, is an office skyscraper in Tel Aviv, Israel, located on Yigal Allon Street. At 165 meters, it is one of the tallest buildings in the city. Originally it was planned to be 235 meters in heigh ...

People

* Carmen Electra (born 1972), American model, actress, and singer * Elektra (name), female given name * Elektra (wrestling) (born 1970), stage name of Donna Adamo, professional wrestling valet and adult model * Electra Havemeyer Webb (1888–1960), American museum founder * Electra Waggoner Biggs (1912–2001) * Electra Carlin (1912–2000) * Electra Collins Doren (1861–1927), suffragette and library scientist * Dorian Electra (born 1992) * Justine Electra * Electra Waggoner (1882–1925) * Electra Elite, Serbian singer and sex worker * Electra Mustaine (born 1998)

Animals

* ''Electra'' (bryozoan), a genus of aquatic invertebrates * ''Elektra'' (bug), a genus of insects in the tribe Mirini * Electra (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse

Art, entertainment, and media

Comics

* '' Elektra: Assassin'' (1986), a comics miniseries dedicated to the Marvel character

Fictional characters

Electra (cat) Jellicle cats are a fictional type of feline from T. S. Eliot's 1939 light poetry book ''Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats''. Jellicle cats were first mentioned in Eliot's 1933 poem "Five-Finger Exercises" and later developed in ''Old Possu ...

, in T.S. Eliot's ''Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats'' and in the musical ''Cats'' *

Elektra (character) Elektra Natchios (, ) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Frank Miller, the character first appeared in '' Daredevil'' #168 (Jan. 1981). She is a love interest of the superhero Matt Mur ...

, a Marvel Comics character * "Electra", Cathy's dog in the ''Cathy'' comic strip *

Electra the Electric Train ''Starlight Express'' is a 1984 British musical, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Richard Stilgoe. It tells the story of a young but obsolete steam engine, Rusty, who races in a championship against modern engines in the hope of ...

, a character in ''Starlight Express'' * Elektra King, in ''The World is not Enough'' * Elektra (''Tracy Beaker Returns'' character) * Elektra, the princess of the Electric Eels from ''

Sea Princesses ''Sea Princesses '' (known as ''Princesas do Mar'' in Brazil) is a series of children's books created by the Brazilian writer and cartoonist Fábio Yabu. The first book was released in 2004 by publisher Panda Books; due to its success, three ot ...

Film

* ''Electra'' (1962 film), based on the Euripides play * ''Electra'', a 1996 Shannon Tweed film * ''Elektra'' (2005 film), a film based on the Marvel character * ''Elektra'' (2010 film), a Malayalam psychological drama film

Music

Groups

Electra (band) Electra was a British electronic-music band, founded in the late 1980s by Paul Oakenfold in close collaboration with his friend Steve Osborne. The band was made up of Oakenfold, Osborne, Nick Divaris,Johny Rocca and Micky. It released three ...

, an electronic musical band from the United Kingdom *

Electra (Israeli band) Electra is an Israeli rock'n'roll band, influenced by 1960s pop and soul, garage rock, and 1970s punk and ska. It is one of the most prominent bands at the Israeli rock'n'roll and indie scene. The band members are Nitzan Horesh (lead singer, ...

, an Israeli rock'n'roll band *

Elektra (band) Elektra is a pop rock band from Iceland formed in 2009. History Elektra is an all-female band from Reykjavík. The lead singer is Nana Alfreds. Their manager is Valgeir Magnússon. In February 2009, with the song "Got No Love", they finishe ...

, a pop rock band from Iceland

Albums

* ''Electra'' (album), by Alice Caymmi * ''Electra'' (Arild Andersen album) * ''Elektra'' (Suspekt album), 2011 * '' Elektra: The Album'', the soundtrack to the 2005 film

Songs

* "Electra" (song), a 2009 song by heavy metal band Dio

Operas

* ''Elektra'' (opera), by Richard Strauss * ''Electra'', by

Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner (2 March 1759 in Oberschönau – 28 May 1833 in Uppsala) was a German-born Swedish composer. Hæffner received his first musical education with the Schmalkalden organist Johann Gottfried Vierling. He st ...

* ''Elektra'', by Mikis Theodorakis

Plays

* ''Electra'' (Euripides play) * ''Electra'' (Sophocles play) * ''Electra'' (Giraudoux play), 1930 * ''Electra'' (Wijesinha play), 1986 * ''Elektra'', by Hugo von Hofmannsthal after Sophocles * ''Elektra'' (started in 1949, first performed 1987), a play by

Ezra Pound Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a Fascism, fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works ...

and Rudd Fleming * ''Electra'', a 1901 play written by

Benito Pérez Galdós Benito Pérez Galdós (May 10, 1843 – January 4, 1920) was a Spanish Spanish Realist literature, realist novelist. He was the leading literary figure in 19th-century Spain, and some scholars consider him second only to Miguel de Cervantes ...

Business

* Electra (company), electricity and water company in Cape Verde *

Electra Bicycle Company Electra Bicycle Company, a subsidiary of Trek Bicycle Company since 2014, was founded in Leucadia, California, in 1993, by Benno Bänziger and Jeano Erforth. Electra offers a wide range of modern cruiser bicycles. Additionally Electra designed an ...

, Vista, California-based bicycle brand/company *

Electra Guitars Electra was a brand of electric guitars and basses manufactured in Japan and distributed in the US by two companies owned by brothersSaint Louis Music(SLM) and Pacific Coast Music in the 1970s and early 1980s. In 2013, the brand launched a succ ...

, brand of imported electric guitar of the 70s and 80s * Electra Partners Europe, European private equity firm renamed Motion Equity Partners *

Unbound Group Unbound Group, formerly Electra Private Equity, is a British-based online company specialising in clothing and specialist footwear. Listed on the London Stock Exchange until 2022, it is listed on the Alternative Investment Market. History The ...

, formerly Electra Private Equity, London-based listed investment trust *

Elektra Records Elektra Records (or Elektra Entertainment) is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group, founded in 1950 by Jac Holzman and Paul Rickolt. It played an important role in the development of contemporary folk and rock music between the 1 ...

, U.S. record label *

Grupo Elektra Grupo Elektra is a Mexican financial and retailing corporation established by Hugo Salinas Price. The company has operations in Latin America and is the largest non-bank provider of cash advance services in the United States. It is listed on th ...

, Mexican corporation *

Electra Airways Electra Airways ( bg, Електра Еъруейс) is a Bulgarian charter and ACMI airline. History The airline was founded in 2016 and commenced flight operations one year later in August 2017 with a single Airbus A320 The Airbus A320 ...

, airline

Technology

Elektra (layout engine) Presto was the browser engine of the Opera web browser from the release of Opera 7 on 28 January 2003, until the release of Opera 15 on 2 July 2013, at which time Opera switched to using the Blink engine that was originally created for Chromium. P ...

Electra (radio) Electra, formally called the Electra Proximity Link Payload, is a telecommunications package that acts as a communications relay and navigation aid for Mars spacecraft and rovers. The use of such a relay increases the amount of data that can be ...

, telecommunications transceiver for Mars spacecraft *

Electra (satellite) Electra is a satellite development project initiated by the European Space Agency (ESA) as the first partnership project under its ARTES-33 programme. In conjunction with satellite operator SES S.A., SES and satellite builder OHB SE, OHB Systems, th ...

, a project for a communications satellite with all-electric propulsion *

Electra (teletext) Electra was a teletext service in the United States that was in operation from the early 1980s up until 1993, when it was shut down due to a lack of funding, and discontinuation of teletext-capable television sets by the only US television manuf ...

, a teletext service from the early 1980s to the early 1990s * Electra, a satellite also known as

Explorer-1 Prime Explorer-1 rime'', also known as E1P and Electra, was a CubeSat-class picosatellite built by the Space Science and Engineering Laboratory (SSEL) at Montana State University. It was launched aboard a Taurus-XL rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Bas ...

* Elektra, a navigation system developed from the

Lorenz beam The Lorenz beam was a blind-landing radio navigation system developed by C. Lorenz AG in Berlin. The first system had been installed in 1932 at Berlin-Tempelhof Central Airport, followed by Dübendorf in Switzerland (1934) and others all over the ...

* Electra, an iOS jailbreak app

Transportation

* Buick Electra, full-size premium automobiles built by the Buick division of General Motors * Lockheed L-188 Electra, an American turboprop airliner built by Lockheed * Lockheed Model 10 Electra, a twin-engine, all-metal monoplane airliner from the 1930s * Lockheed Model 12 Electra Junior, an eight-seat, six-passenger all-metal twin-engine transport aircraft of the late 1930s * Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra, a civil cargo and passenger aircraft * Electra, an express electric locomotive of the type

British Rail Class 77 The British Rail Class 77, also known as Class EM2, is a class of 1.5 kV DC, Co-Co electric locomotive. They were built by Metropolitan-Vickers in 1953–1954 for use over the Woodhead Line between Manchester and Sheffield. Description Seve ...

built in 1953 for the Woodhead Line * Electra, an early codename for the

British Rail Class 91 The British Rail Class 91 is a high-speed rail, high-speed electric locomotive, which produces power of ; it was ordered as a component of the East Coast Main Line modernisation and electrification programme of the late 1980s. The Class 91s wer ...

electric locomotive * Electra, a

Great Western Railway The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...

Firefly class 2-2-2 locomotive * Harley-Davidson Electra Glide, a motorcycle in the FL model series since 1965 * HMS ''Electra'', five ships * USS ''Electra'' * HS ''Elektra''

Organizations

Electra (arts organisation) Electra is a London-based non-profit arts organisation that commissions new work by artists working across sound art, moving image, performance and visual art. The organisation particularly works with feminist concerns and overlooked histories. One ...

, London-based non-profit arts organisation *

Elektra Berlin Elektra Berlin was a German association football club from the city of Berlin and was a predecessor of current-day club ''FC Treptow''. The club was the team of the city's power utility workers, established in 1928 as ''Workverein der BEWAG Ber ...

, a German association football club

Other uses

Electra (typeface) Electra is a serif typeface designed by William Addison Dwiggins and published by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company from 1935 onwards. A book face intended for body text, Dwiggins described the design as intended to be a 'modern roman type letter' ...

, a serif typeface * Electra complex, a psychiatric concept