Electra (disambiguation)

Electra was daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra in Greek mythology.

Electra or Elektra may also refer to:

Greek myth

• Electra (Pleiad), one of the Pleiades
• Electra, an Oceanid, wife of Thaumas
• Electra, one of the Danaids, daughter of Danaus and Polyxo. She married (and murdered) Peristhenes, son of Aegyptus and Caliadne

Works based on the Greek myth

• Electra (Sophocles), a play by Sophocles
• Electra (Euripides), a play by Euripides
• Electra (Giraudoux), a 1930 play by Giraudoux
• Electra (Rajiva Wijesinha), a 1986 play by Rajiva Wijesinha
• Elektra (Hofmannsthal), 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
• Electra (album), an album by Arild Andersen
• Elektra (Theodorakis), an opera by Mikis Theodorakis
• Elektra (started in 1949, first performed 1987), a play by Ezra Pound and Rudd Fleming

Other fictional works

• Elektra Natchios, a Marvel Comics character
  • Elektra: Assassin, a 1986 miniseries dedicated to the Marvel character
  • Elektra (2005 film), a film based on the Marvel character
  • Elektra: The Album, the soundtrack to the 2005 film
• Electra the Electric Train, a character in Starlight Express
• "Electra", Cathy's dog in the Cathy comic strip
• Electra (1996 film), a Shannon Tweed film
• Mourning Becomes Electra, a 1931 play cycle written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill
• Electra (cat), a character in the musical Cats
• Elektra King, a character in the 1999 James Bond film The World is not Enough portrayed by Sophie Marceau
• Elektra (2010 film), a Malayalam psychological drama film

Places

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

Business

• Electra Private Equity, the London-based listed investment trust
• Electra Partners Europe, the pan-European private equity firm renamed Cognetas
• Elektra Records, a U.S. record label
• Grupo Elektra, a Mexican corporation
• Electra Guitars, a brand of imported electric guitar of the 70s and 80s

Transportation

• Elektra (smartcard), a planned Hungarian smartcard-based fare payment system
• 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
• Lockheed L-188 Electra, an American turboprop airliner built by Lockheed
• Buick Electra, full-size premium automobiles built by the Buick division of General Motors
• Electra Bicycle Company, a Vista, California-based bicycle brand/company
• Electra, a express electic 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

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

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

Music

• Elektra (album), a 2011 album by Danish band Suspekt
• "Electra" (Dio song), the thirteenth and final single by heavy metal band Dio

Other uses

• Elektra Festival is an International Digital Arts Festival in Montreal
• HMS Electra, four ships
• Electra (star), 17 Tauri
• Electra (teletext), a teletext service from the early 1980s to the early 1990s
• 130 Elektra, an asteroid
• Electra complex, a psychiatric concept
• Elektra Initiative, an alternative back-end for text configuration files
• Electra (cat), a fictional cat in T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
• Electra, one of the first popular modern serif typefaces, designed by W. A. Dwiggins
• Elektra (layout engine)
• Elektra (name), female given name
• Electra, My Love, a 1974 Hungarian drama film directed by Miklós Jancsó
• Electra (bryozoan), a prehistoric genus of bryozoan
• Electra is another name for satellite Explorer-1 Prime