Electra (disambiguation)
Appearance
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, an Oceanid, wife of Thaumas
- Electra, one of the Danaids, daughter of Danaus and Polyxo
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
- 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 (comics), a Marvel Comics character
- Elektra: Assassin, a 1986 miniseries dedicated to the Marvel character
- Elektra (2005 film), a film based on the Marvel character
- 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
- Mandy "Elektra" Perkins, a character in Tracy Beaker Returns and The Dumping Ground
- Electra (cat), a fictional cat in T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
- Electra, My Love, a 1974 Hungarian drama film directed by Miklós Jancsó
Places
- Electra, California
- Electra, Texas
- Electra Building, Vancouver, a skyscraper
- Electra (San Diego), a condominium tower located in downtown San Diego
Business
- Elektra (espresso machines), an Italian producer of high-quality espresso machines
- 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, 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
People with the given, professional or family name Electra or Elektra
- Carmen Electra (born 1972), American model, actress, and singer
- Electra Havemeyer Webb, American museum founder
- Paul Oakenfold (born 1963), 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
- Elektra (name), female given name
Music
- 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
- "Electra" (song), a song by heavy metal band Dio
- 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
Science and technology
- Electra (teletext), a teletext service from the early 1980s to the early 1990s
- 130 Elektra, an asteroid
- Electra (star), 17 Tauri
- Elektra (layout engine)
- Electra (radio), telecommunications transceiver for Mars spacecraft
- Electra (bryozoan), a prehistoric genus of bryozoan
- Electra is another name for satellite Explorer-1 Prime
- Electra complex, a psychiatric concept
- Elektra and Elektra-Sonnen were German radio navigation systems in 1930s and 1940s
Other uses
- Elektra Festival is an International Digital Arts Festival in Montreal
- Electra, a modern serif typeface, designed by William Addison Dwiggins
- Elektra Berlin, a German association football club
- Electra (arts organisation), London-based non-profit arts organisation