Elan or Élan may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

Elan (Order of the Stick) ''The Order of the Stick'' (''OOTS'') is a comedic webcomic that satirizes tabletop role-playing games and medieval fantasy. The comic is written and drawn by Rich Burlew, who illustrates the comic in a stick figure style. Taking place in a mag ...

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

Music

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

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

Literature

* ''Elan'' (magazine), an online lifestyle publication

Business and organisations

Elan (company) Elan is a sporting goods manufacturer in Begunje na Gorenjskem, Slovenia. It is best known for its skis and snowboards. Other products include sailboats from length, motor yachts, apparel (mostly sportswear), and equipment for sports facilit ...

, 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 ...

, an Irish pharmaceutical company * Elan Financial Services, a subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp *

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 Sports ...

, an American race car manufacturing consortium * ELAN Microelectronics Corp., a Taiwanese manufacturer of microcontrollers *

Élan School Élan School was an abusive behavior modification program and therapeutic boarding school located in Poland, Maine. It was a full member of the National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs (NATSAP) and was considered to be a part of ...

, a school in Poland, Maine

People

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 *

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

(born 1975), American singer-songwriter *

Elan Carr Elan Somekh Carr (born November 25, 1968) is an Americans, American lawyer, diplomat, politician, and chief executive. He is the CEO of the Israeli-American Council, Israeli American Council. Previously, he served as the United States Special En ...

(born 1968), American attorney and politician *

Elan Closs Stephens Dame Elan Closs Stephens (' Roberts; born 1948) is a Welsh academic who has been a non-executive director of the BBC Board since 2017, and Chair of the BBC between 27 June 2023 and 4 March 2024. She is Electoral Commissioner for Wales and Pr ...

(born 1948), Welsh academic *

Elan Daley Elan Nichele Daley (born 27 February 2005) is a Bermudian swimmer Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a s ...

(born 2005), Bermudian swimmer *

Elan Gale Elan Gale (born October 27, 1983) is an American author, television writer, and television producer. He worked on the reality series ''The Bachelor'' and created '' FBoy Island''. Gale also produced ''The Bachelorette'', '' Bachelor Pad'', '' Bac ...

(born 1983), American author *

Elan Lee Elan Lee is an American game designer, developer, and creator. He has designed games for the Xbox; helped create the world’s first Alternate Reality Games; and with Matthew Inman created the card game '' Exploding Kittens'', whose Kickstarter ...

, American game designer *

Elan Lee Buller Elan Lee Buller (born February 16, 1979) was a U.S. University Division I WCC basketball player for the Pepperdine University Waves in Malibu, California. He won an Olympic gold medal at the Maccabiah Games (July 2001) in Israel and broke two Gui ...

(born 1979), American basketball player *

Elan Mastai Elan Mastai is a Canadian screenwriter and novelist. He is best known for '' The F Word'', for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014. His other screenwriting credits include ...

, Canadian screenwriter and novelist *

Elan Portnoy Elan Portnoy is an American record producer and a guitarist in three bands: The Headless Horsemen, The Fuzztones and The Waspmen. Music history The Headless Horsemen In the late 1980s, Portnoy was a guitarist for The Headless Horsemen, a New Yor ...

, American musician *

Elan Sicroff Elan David Sicroff () is a concert pianist, recording artist, and educator. He interprets the music composed by Thomas de Hartmann (1885–1956) and the spiritualist George Gurdjieff (1866 or 1867–1949). Early life and education As a teen, S ...

(born 1950), American pianist *

Elan (director) Elan is an Indian film director, screenwriter and lyricist who predominantly works in the Tamil film industry. Personal life Elan was making short films since he finished his schooling in 2007. He is the son of Stills Pandian, a photographer. ...

, Indian film director

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. Popu ...

, France *

Elan, Bichursky District, Republic of Buryatia Elan () is a rural locality (a selo) in Bichursky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 1,082 as of 2010. There are 9 streets. Geography Elan is located 28 km southwest of Bichura Bichura () is the name of several ...

, Russia *

Elan Valley The Elan Valley () 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 Village, desi ...

, Wales **

Elan Village Elan Village () is a small purpose-built community in Powys, Wales. It was designed by architect Herbert Tudor Buckland as part of Birmingham Corporation's scheme to construct a series of water supply reservoirs in the Elan Valley between 1892 an ...

Afon 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'' meaning 'hind' or 'fawn' in referenc ...

, a river in Wales *

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

, a river in Romania *

, an abusive behavioral correction facility that shut down in 2011

Science and technology

Computing and software

AMD Élan AMD Élan is a family of 32-bit embedded SoCs marketed by AMD based on x86 microprocessors. All of these products were backed with a long-term supply guarantee to meet the needs of embedded processors. However, when AMD acquired the Geode divis ...

, a microchip *Elan, another name for the 1980s

Enterprise Enterprise (or the archaic spelling Enterprize) may refer to: Business and economics Brands and enterprises * Enterprise GP Holdings, an energy holding company * Enterprise plc, a UK civil engineering and maintenance company * Enterpris ...

home computer * Elan Graphics, computer graphics architecture *

ELAN (programming language) ELAN is an interpreted educational programming language for learning and teaching systematic programming. (Note: In May 2023 design commenced on a new programming language named 'Elan' also designed for teaching and learning programming in sc ...

* ELAN software, for transcription and annotation

Medicine

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

Other uses

* Greek People's Liberation Navy (Ελληνικό Λαϊκό Απελευθερωτικό Ναυτικό), commonly abbreviated as ELAN *

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, and later variant Kia Elan * Elan (snowmobile), by Skidoo * French sloop ''Élan'', a minesweeping vessel *

Elan Sportif Elan Sportif is a Beninese basketball club based in Porto-Novo , , ; ; ; also known as Hogbonu and Ajashe) is the Capital (political), capital and List of cities in Benin, second-largest city of Benin. The commune covers an area of and as of ...

, a Beninese basketball club