EL, El or el may refer to:

Religion

El (deity) (also Il, uga, 𐎛𐎍 ''ʾīlu''; phn, 𐤀𐤋 ''ʾīl''; he, אֵל ''ʾēl''; syr, ܐܺܝܠ ''ʾīyl''; ar, إيل or ; cognate to akk, 𒀭, ilu) is a Northwest Semitic word meaning "god" or " deity", or referring (as a prope ...

, a Semitic word for "God"

People

EL (rapper) Elom Adablah (born 28 June 1989), better known by his stage name E.L, is a Ghanaian Afrobeats musician, rapper, singer and producer. E.L's singles include "Obuu Mo", "Kaalu", "One Ghana", "Auntie Martha", "Shelele", "Mi Naa Bo Po", "Koko" an ...

(born 1983), stage name of Elorm Adablah, a Ghanaian rapper and sound engineer *

El DeBarge Eldra Patrick "El" DeBarge (born June 4, 1961) is an American singer, songwriter and musician. He was the focal point and primary lead singer of the family group DeBarge. Popular songs led by El DeBarge include " Time Will Reveal", " Who's Hold ...

, music artist *

El Franco Lee El Franco Lee (January30, 1949January3, 2016) was an American politician who served as a Harris County commissioner from 1985 to his death in 2016. Before becoming a county commissioner, he served as a member of the Texas House of Representative ...

(1949–2016), American politician *

Ephrat Livni Ephrat Livni, also known as el (born 1972), is an Israeli-American artist, writer and lawyer who creates large scale street art projects. Biography Livni wrote for the ''Jerusalem Report'' in Israel and for ABC News in New York. Art career She b ...

(born 1972), American street artist

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

* El, a character from the manga series ''Shugo Chara!'' by Peach-Pit * El, short for Eleven, a fictional character in the TV series '' Stranger Things'' * El, family name of Kal-El (Superman) and his father Jor-El in '' Superman'' *E.L. Faldt, character in the road comedy film '' Road Trip''

Literature

* ''Él'', 1926 autobiographical novel by

Mercedes Pinto Mercedes Pinto Armas ( La Laguna, Tenerife, 12 October 1883 – Ciudad de México, 21 October 1976) was a Spanish writer. Her 1926 novel ''He'' is the basis of the Luis Buñuel Luis Buñuel Portolés (; 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) w ...

* ''Él'' (visual novel), a 2000 Japanese adult visual novel

Music

* Él Records, an independent record label from the UK founded by Mike Alway * ''Él'' (Lucero album), a 1982 album by Lucero * "Él", Spanish song by Rubén Blades from ''Caminando'' (album) * "Él" (Lucía song), the Spanish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1982, performed by Lucía

Other media

* ''Él'' (film), a 1953 film by Luis Buñuel based on the 1926 novel

Science and technology

Computing

* .el, a computer file extension used for

Emacs Lisp Emacs Lisp is a dialect of the Lisp programming language used as a scripting language by Emacs (a text editor family most commonly associated with GNU Emacs and XEmacs). It is used for implementing most of the editing functionality built into Em ...

source code *

Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español (English: Universal Free Encyclopedia in Spanish) is a Spanish-language wiki-based online encyclopedia, released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. It uses the MediaWiki software. It started as a fork of the Spa ...

, a spin-off project of the Spanish Wikipedia *

Erase Line (ANSI) ANSI escape sequences are a standard for in-band signaling to control cursor location, color, font styling, and other options on video text terminals and terminal emulators. Certain sequences of bytes, most starting with an ASCII escape charac ...

, an ANSI X3.64 escape sequence *

Unified Expression Language The Jakarta Expression Language (EL; formerly Expression Language and Unified Expression Language) is a special purpose programming language mostly used in Jakarta EE web applications for embedding and evaluating expressions in web pages. The ...

, a feature of the JavaServer Pages software technology

Other uses in science and technology

* El (crater), a crater on Ganymede * Electroluminescence ** Electroluminescent display, a display made with electroluminescent material *

Electrum Electrum is a naturally occurring alloy of gold and silver, with trace amounts of copper and other metals. Its color ranges from pale to bright yellow, depending on the proportions of gold and silver. It has been produced artificially, and ...

(El), an alloy of gold and silver * Encephalitis lethargica, a neurological disease * Equilibrium level, the height in the atmosphere at which a rising parcel of air reaches surrounding air of the same temperature * NIST Engineering Laboratory, a NIST laboratory since 2010

Sport

* Eastern League (disambiguation), a Class AA League in Minor League Baseball * Euroleague Basketball, highest level tier and most important professional club basketball competition in Europe * UEFA Europa League, formerly the UEFA Cup, a competition for eligible European football clubs

Transportation

* Acura EL, an automobile * EL, Air Nippon's IATA code * EL, Ellinair's IATA code * EL, Erie Lackawanna Railway's reporting mark * El, shortened name of elevated railway systems, such as the Chicago "L" * El, one name of the elevated railway system on SEPTA, the Market-Frankford

Other uses

* The spelled-out version of the letter L in English * El (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet * Al- aka "El-" ( ar, ال, links=no), Arabic prefix meaning "the" (definite article in Arabic), used in many family names * Estée Lauder Companies, American cosmetics manufacturer * Party of the European Left, a political party * Greece in (EU VAT identification EL) * Greek language (ISO 639-1 language code EL) * El, the number eleven in the duodecimal system