Electra (disambiguation)

Electra was a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra in Greek mythology.

Electra or Elektra may also refer to:

Greek myth

• Electra (Pleiad), one of the Pleiades
• Electra, one of the Danaids, daughter of Danaus and Polyxo
• Electra, an Oceanid, wife of Thaumas

Works based on the Greek myth

• Electra (Euripides play), a play by Euripides
• Electra (Sophocles play), a play by Sophocles
• Electra (Giraudoux play), a 1930 play by Giraudoux
• Electra (Wijesinha play), a 1986 play by Rajiva Wijesinha
• Elektra (Hofmannsthal play), a play by the Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal after Sophocles
• Elektra (opera), a 1909 opera by Richard Strauss to a libretto by Hofmannsthal adapted from the above play
• Electra (1962 film), a film by Michael Cacoyannis, based on the Euripides play
• Elektra (Theodorakis opera), an opera by Mikis Theodorakis
• Elektra (started in 1949, first performed 1987), a play by Ezra Pound and Rudd Fleming

Places

Outer space

• Electra (star), 17 Tauri
• 130 Elektra, an asteroid

Municipalities

• Electra, California
• Electra, Texas

Buildings

• Electra (San Diego), a condominium tower located in downtown San Diego
• Electra Building, Vancouver, a skyscraper

People with the given, professional or family name Electra or Elektra

• Carmen Electra (born 1972), American model, actress, and singer
• Elektra (name), female given name
• Elektra (wrestling) (born 1970), stage name of Donna Adamo, professional wrestling valet and adult model
• Elektra, Professional name of Efva Attling in modeling career
• Elektra Ring name of Salina Bartunek, competed from 1992–1994 in American Gladiators
• Elektra King, character in the film The World is Not Enough
• Paul Oakenfold (born 1963), British producer and Trance music DJ
• Electra Havemeyer Webb, American museum founder

Art, entertainment, and media

Comics

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

Fictional entities

• Electra (cat), a fictional character in T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and in the musical Cats
• Elektra (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• "Electra", Cathy's dog in the Cathy comic strip
• Electra the Electric Train, a character in Starlight Express
• Elektra King, a character in the 1999 James Bond film The World is not Enough portrayed by Sophie Marceau
• Mandy "Elektra" Perkins, a character in Tracy Beaker Returns and The Dumping Ground

Film

• Electra, My Love (1974), a Hungarian drama film directed by Miklós Jancsó
• Electra (1996 film), a Shannon Tweed film
• Elektra (2005 film), a film based on the Marvel character
• Elektra (2010 film), a Malayalam psychological drama film

Music

Groups

• Electra (band), an electronic musical band from the United Kingdom
• Electra (Israeli band), an Israeli rock'n'roll band
• Elektra (band), a pop rock band from Iceland
• The Electra, an underground rock group from California

Albums and opera

• Elektra (opera) (1909), by Richard Strauss
• Electra (album), an album by Arild Andersen
• Elektra (Suspekt album), a 2011 album by Danish band Suspekt
• Elektra: The Album, the soundtrack to the 2005 film

Songs

• "Electra" (song), a song by heavy metal band Dio

Plays

• Mourning Becomes Electra, a 1931 play cycle written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill

Business

• Elektra (espresso machines), an Italian producer of high-quality espresso machines
• Electra Bicycle Company, a Vista, California-based bicycle brand/company
• Electra Guitars, a brand of imported electric guitar of the 70s and 80s
• Electra Partners Europe, the pan-European private equity firm renamed Cognetas
• Electra Private Equity, the London-based listed investment trust
• Elektra Records, a U.S. record label
• Grupo Elektra, a Mexican corporation

Science and technology

• Electra (radio), telecommunications transceiver for Mars spacecraft
• Electra (bryozoan), a prehistoric genus of bryozoan
• Electra (teletext), a teletext service from the early 1980s to the early 1990s
• Electra complex, a psychiatric concept
• Electra, a satellite also known as Explorer-1 Prime
• Elektra (layout engine)
• Elektra, a navigation system developed from the Lorenz beam
• Electra (satellite), a project for a communications satellite with all-electric propulsion

Transportation

• Elektra (smartcard), a planned Hungarian smartcard-based fare payment system
• Buick Electra, full-size premium automobiles built by the Buick division of General Motors
• Lockheed L-188 Electra, an American turboprop airliner built by Lockheed
• Lockheed Model 10 Electra, a twin-engine, all-metal monoplane airliner from the 1930s
• Lockheed Model 12 Electra Junior, an eight-seat, six-passenger all-metal twin-engine transport aircraft of the late 1930s
• Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra, a civil cargo and passenger aircraft
• Electra, an express electric locomotive of the type British Rail Class 77 built in 1953 for the Woodhead Line
• Electra, an early codename for the British Rail Class 91 electric locomotive
• Electra, a Great Western Railway 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

Organizations

• Electra (arts organisation), London-based non-profit arts organisation
• Elektra Berlin, a German association football club

Other uses

• Elektra Festival is an International Digital Arts Festival in Montreal
• Electra, a modern serif typeface, designed by William Addison Dwiggins