Electra (disambiguation)

Greek myth

Electra (Pleiad), one of the Pleiades

Electra, one of the Danaids, daughter of Danaus and Polyxo

Electra (Oceanid), the wife of Thaumas and mother of Iris and the Harpies

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

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

Electra, a 1901 play written by Spanish writer Benito Perez Galdos

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

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

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

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

Elektra (bug), a genus of insects in the tribe Mirini

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