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, a school in Poland, Maine

People

* Elán (musician) (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 (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, American game designer * Elan Lee Buller (born 1979), American basketball player * Elan Mastai, Canadian screenwriter and novelist * Elan Portnoy, 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), Indian film director

Places

* Élan, Ardennes, France * Elan, Bichursky District, Republic of Buryatia, 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 *

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), a river in Romania * Élan School, an abusive behavioral correction facility that shut down in 2011

Science and technology

Computing and software

* AMD Élan, 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 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