Elephant (disambiguation)

An elephant is a large, grey mammal native to Africa and southern Asia.

Elephant may also refer to:

Films

• Elephant (1989 film), a film by Alan Clarke set in Northern Ireland
• Elephant (2003 film), a film by Gus Van Sant set in the United States
• Elephant, about seatbelt use in the UK
• The Elephant Man, 1980 David Lynch film, the story of Joseph Merrick, who was known as the Elephant Man

Literature

• Elephant (stories), a 1988 collection of short stories by Raymond Carver
• Oliphaunt a poem in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings

Military machines

• HMS Elephant, several ships of the Royal Navy
• Martinsyde G.100 "Elephant", a British World War I bomber aircraft
• Elefant, a German Panzerjäger.
• Olifant, a South African modification of the British Centurion tank.

Music

• Elephant (album), a 2003 recording by alternative rock/blues rock band The White Stripes
• Elephant Stone Records, a U.S. record label
• Elephants... Teeth Sinking Into Heart, a 2008 pop album
• Elephant Stone, a 1988 single by the Stone Roses
• L'Éléphant (The Elephant), the fifth movement of The Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saëns
• L'Elephant, a song on the self-titled album Tom Tom Club
• Elephant, a song from the album 9 by Damien Rice.

People

• Marco Pantani, nicknamed Elefantino (little elephant) by Lance Armstrong
• "The Elephants", nickname for the Côte d'Ivoire national football team

Places

• Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands off Antarctica
• The Elephant, a mountain in Milford Sound, New Zealand
• Elephant Hill Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
• Elephant Trunk Hill, Guilin, China
• Elephant and Castle, a region of London, England
• Elephant Ridge, in Antartica
• Elephant Spit, Heard Island, Australia

Science

• Elephant trunks, formations of interstellar matter found in space
• Elephant's Trunk nebula

Other

• A symbol of the Republican Party (United States)
• Al-Fil (The Elephant), a chapter of the Qur'an
• Bishop (chess), a chess piece (originally represented as an elephant)
• Chang (beer), Elephant beer in Thai
• De Olifant, Burdaard, a windmill in Friesland
• Elephant.co.uk, a U.K. motor insurance company
• Elephant beer, a "strong beer" brewed by Carlsberg Brewery of Denmark
• Elephant folio, a book size
• Elephant Memory Systems, a computer floppy disk manufacturer
• Ivory, a material made from elephant teeth/tusks, in poetic usage (imitating Latin and Greek)
• A computer network with a large Bandwidth-delay product
• Order of the Elephant, the highest Order of Denmark

See also

• Elefant (disambiguation)
• Elephant fish (disambiguation)
• Elephant in the room, an English idiomatic expression referring to an obvious truth that is being ignored
• The Elephant seal, a marine mammal
• The Elephant House, a sculpture in Toronto
• A heffalump, a fictional elephant-like creature in Winnie the Pooh
• Elephant, a vehicle from the video game series Halo
• Elephant walk (disambiguation), a term for a song, a form of hazing, and a Tradition at Texas A&M University
• Elephantiasis, a human medical condition which results in disproportionate growth of parts of the body
• Pachydermata
• Oliphant, family name derived from an archaic spelling of "Elephant"