Elan Explained

Elan or Élan may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

• Elan (Order of the Stick), 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), 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), a Slovenian sports equipment company
• Élan, an Irish pharmaceutical company
• Elan Financial Services, a subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp
• Élan Motorsport Technologies, 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 (born 1975), American singer-songwriter
• Elan Carr (born 1968), American attorney and politician
• Elan Closs Stephens (born 1948), Welsh academic
• Elan Daley (born 2005), Bermudian swimmer
• Elan Gale (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 (born 1950), American pianist
• Elan (director), Indian film director

Places

• Élan, Ardennes, France
• Elan, Bichursky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia
• Elan Valley, Wales
  • Elan Village
• Afon Elan, 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 home computer
• Elan Graphics, computer graphics architecture
• ELAN (programming language)
• ELAN software, for transcription and annotation

Medicine

• Early left anterior negativity, an event-related potential in electrophysiology

Other uses

• Greek People's Liberation Navy (Ελληνικό Λαϊκό Απελευθερωτικό Ναυτικό), commonly abbreviated as ELAN
• Lotus Elan, a car model, and later variant Kia Elan
• Elan (snowmobile), by Skidoo
• French sloop Élan, a minesweeping vessel
• Elan Sportif, a Beninese basketball club

See also

• Elan Vital (disambiguation)
• Elaan (disambiguation)
• Eland (disambiguation)
• Elam (disambiguation)
• Ilan (disambiguation)
• Poets of Elan, a group of Ecuadorian poets