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.'' ...

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 The Antarctic Research Centre (ARC) is part of the S ...

* 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, 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), a condominium tower located in downtown San Diego *

Electra Building, Vancouver The Electra Building is a major structure in Vancouver, British Columbia. History The structure was built by John Laing Group, John Laing & Sons in 1957 as the new headquarters for the BC Electric Company, under its president Dal Grauer. A few da ...

, a skyscraper *

Electra House Electra House is a building at 84 Moorgate, London, England. It is notable as the wartime London base of Cable & Wireless Limited, and office of Department EH — one of the three British organisations that merged in World War II to form the Spec ...

, 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 Tara Leigh Patrick (born April 20, 1972), known professionally as Carmen Electra, is an American actress, model, singer, and media personality. She began her career as a singer after moving to Minneapolis, where she met Prince, who produced h ...

(born 1972), American model, actress, and singer *

Elektra (name) Elektra is a female given name. Its Greek origin ( Ἠλέκτρα, Ēlektra) means "amber", and thus "shining", "incandescent". Names with similar meanings are Lucy and Svetlana. Variants are Ela, Elka, Elke, Elek, Elektrine. Name days *Czech: ...

, female given name *

Elektra (wrestling) Donna Adamo (born November 12, 1970) is an American retired professional wrestling valet and professional wrestler, better known by her ring name, Elektra. She is best known for her appearances with the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based promotion ...

(born 1970), stage name of Donna Adamo, professional wrestling valet and adult model *

Electra Havemeyer Webb Electra Havemeyer Webb (August 16, 1888 – November 19, 1960) was a collector of American antiques and founder of the Shelburne Museum. Early life Electra Havemeyer was born on August 16, 1888. She was the youngest child of Henry Osborne Have ...

(1888–1960), American museum founder *

Electra Waggoner Biggs Electra Waggoner Biggs (November 8, 1912 – April 23, 2001) was a Texas-born heiress, socialite and sculptor, widely known as owner of the Waggoner Ranch in Texas as well as her sculptures of Will Rogers, Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, Bob Ho ...

(1912–2001) *

Electra Carlin Electra Carlin (September 28, 1912 – February 19, 2000) was an American art dealer and gallery owner in Fort Worth, Texas. She operated Fort Worth's longest-running private art gallery, which was also the first in the area founded and operated ...

(1912–2000) *

Electra Collins Doren Electra Collins Doren (December 4, 1861 – March 4, 1927) was a suffragist and library scientist who started the United States' first book wagon service. She was the longtime director of the Dayton Public Library and Museum in the early 20th c ...

(1861–1927), suffragette and library scientist *

Dorian Electra Dorian Electra Fridkin Gomberg (born 1992) is an American singer, songwriter, and performance artist. Their debut studio album, ''Flamboyant'', was released in 2019, followed by their second studio album, ''My Agenda,'' in 2020. Electra is know ...

(born 1992) *

Justine Electra Justine Electra (born Justine Beatty) is an Australian-born multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and tech house DJ. She is based in Berlin, Germany. Her debut album, ''Soft Rock'' was released in June 2006 to a positive reception. The seco ...

Electra Waggoner Electra Waggoner (January 6, 1882 – November 26, 1925) was an American rancher and socialite from Texas. She was an heiress to the Waggoner Ranch, one of the largest ranches in the United States. The town of Electra, Texas was named in her honor ...

(1882–1925) *

Electra Elite Electra Elite ( sr-cyr, Електра Елит, Elektra Elit) is a Serbian singer and sex worker. Early and personal life Assigned male at birth, Elite was born and raised in Knin, modern-day Croatia, in a Serbs of Croatia, Serb family. She gra ...

, Serbian singer and sex worker *

Electra Mustaine Electra Nicole Mustaine (born January 28, 1998) is an American musician. The daughter of heavy metal musician Dave Mustaine, she was raised in Fallbrook, California and currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee. Family Mustaine is the daughte ...

(born 1998)

Animals

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

Mirini Mirini is a tribe of plant bugs belonging to the subfamily Mirinae. Genera '' Acanthocranella'' - '' Acanthopeplus'' - '' Actinonotus'' - '' Adelphocoridea'' - ''Adelphocoris'' - '' Adelphocorisella'' - '' Adnotholopus'' - '' Adphytocoris'' - ...

Electra (horse) Electra (1906 – 1918) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. A a two-year-old she showed considerable promise as she won four time from eight starts and finished second on three occasions. In the following year she won the 100 ...

, a Thoroughbred racehorse

Art, entertainment, and media

Comics

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

Fictional characters

* Electra (cat), 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 Elektra Vavra King is a character in the James Bond film ''The World Is Not Enough'', played by actress Sophie Marceau. In the film Elektra is the daughter of Scottish oil magnate Sir Robert King and his Azerbaijani wife. Her father had acquired ...

, 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 Shannon Lee Tweed Simmons (born March 10, 1957) is a Canadian actress and model. One of the most successful actresses of mainstream erotica, she is identified with the genre of the erotic thriller. Tweed has appeared in more than 60 films and i ...

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), 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 Michail "Mikis" Theodorakis ( el, Μιχαήλ "Μίκης" Θεοδωράκης ; 29 July 1925 – 2 September 2021) was a Greek composer and lyricist credited with over 1,000 works. He Film score, scored for the films ''Zorba the Greek (film) ...

Plays

* ''Electra'' (Euripides play) * ''Electra'' (Sophocles play) * ''Electra'' (Giraudoux play), 1930 * ''Electra'' (Wijesinha play), 1986 * ''Elektra'', by

Hugo von Hofmannsthal Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (; 1 February 1874 – 15 July 1929) was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist. Early life Hofmannsthal was born in Landstraße, Vienna, the son of an upper-class ...

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) Electra is the main electricity and water company in Cape Verde. It was founded as a public company on April 17, 1982 (under decree-law no. 37/1982) by the merger of Electricidade e Água do Mindelo (EAM - Mindelo Electricity and Water), Central E ...

, electricity and water company in Cape Verde * Electra Bicycle Company, 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 Motion Equity Partners is a private equity firm focused on leveraged buyout and growth capital investments in European middle-market companies across a range of industries. The firm, has office in Paris. It was founded in 1989 as Electra Partner ...

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 Airbus SE (; ; ; ) is ...

, 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), 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 The Buick Electra is a full-size luxury car manufactured and marketed by Buick from 1959 to 1990, over six generations. Introduced as the replacement for the Roadmaster lines, the Electra served as the flagship Buick sedan line through its e ...

, full-size premium automobiles built by the Buick division of General Motors *

Lockheed L-188 Electra The Lockheed L-188 Electra is an American turboprop airliner built by Lockheed. First flown in 1957, it was the first large turboprop airliner built in the United States. Initial sales were good, but after two fatal crashes that led to expensiv ...

, an American turboprop airliner built by Lockheed *

Lockheed Model 10 Electra The Lockheed Model 10 Electra is an American twin-engined, all-metal monoplane airliner developed by the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation in the 1930s to compete with the Boeing 247 and Douglas DC-2. The type gained considerable fame as one was fl ...

, a twin-engine, all-metal monoplane airliner from the 1930s *

Lockheed Model 12 Electra Junior The Lockheed Model 12 Electra Junior, more commonly known as the Lockheed 12 or L-12, is an eight-seat, six-passenger all-metal twin-engine transport aircraft of the late 1930s designed for use by small airlines, companies, and wealthy private ind ...

, an eight-seat, six-passenger all-metal twin-engine transport aircraft of the late 1930s *

Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra The Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra was an American civil passenger and cargo aircraft built by the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation during the late 1930s. An outgrowth of the earlier Model 10 Electra, the Model 14 was also developed into larger, ...

, 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), London-based non-profit arts organisation * Elektra Berlin, 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 In neo-Freudian psychology, the Electra complex, as proposed by Carl Jung in his ''Theory of Psychoanalysis'', is a girl's psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father. In the course of her psychosexual development, the c ...

, a psychiatric concept