# El

EL, El or el may refer to:

## Arts and entertainment
### Fictional entities

* El, a character from the manga series Shugo Chara! by Peach-Pit
* Eleven (Stranger Things) (El), a fictional character in the TV series Stranger Things
* El, family name of Kal-El (Superman) and his father Jor-El in the Superman dynasty
* E.L. Faldt, character in the road comedy film Road Trip

### Music

* Él Records, an independent record label from the UK founded by Mike Alway
* Él (Lucerito album), a 1982 album by Lucerito
* "Él", Spanish song by Rubén Blades from the album Caminando
* "Él" (Lucía song), the Spanish entry performed by Lucía in the Eurovision Song Contest 1982

### Other media

* Él, 1926 autobiographical novel by Mercedes Pinto
* Él (film), a 1953 film by Luis Buñuel based on the 1926 novel
* Él (visual novel), a 1991 Japanese adult visual novel
* EL TV, an Azerbaijani regional television channel

## Companies and organizations

* Estée Lauder Companies (NYSE:EL), American cosmetics manufacturer
* EssilorLuxottica (Euronext Paris:EL), French-Italian eyewear conglomerate
* NIST Engineering Laboratory, a NIST laboratory since 2010

## Science and technology

* El (crater), a crater on Ganymede
* Electroluminescence, in physics
** Electroluminescent display, a display made with electroluminescent material
* Electrum (El), an alloy of gold and silver
* Encephalitis lethargica, a neurological disease
* Equilibrium level, the height in the atmosphere at which a rising parcel of air reaches surrounding air of the same temperature
* El (number), a pronunciation of the symbol for the number eleven in some duodecimal system notations

### Computing

* .el, a computer file extension used for Emacs Lisp source code
* Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español, a spin-off project of the Spanish Wikipedia
* Erase Line (ANSI), an ANSI X3.64 escape sequence
* Unified Expression Language, a feature of the JavaServer Pages software technology

## Sport

* Eastern League (disambiguation), a Class AA League in Minor League Baseball
* Euroleague Basketball, highest level tier and most important professional club basketball competition in Europe
* UEFA Europa League, formerly the UEFA Cup, a competition for eligible European football clubs

## Transportation

* Acura EL, an automobile
* Air Nippon (former IATA code: EL), a former Japanese regional airline
* Ellinair (former IATA code: EL), a former Greek airline
* Erie Lackawanna Railway (reporting mark: EL), US
* Elevated railway
** Chicago "L", the rapid transit system in Chicago, US
** El, one name of the elevated railway system on SEPTA, the Market–Frankford Line, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
* Elizabeth line, a commuter rail line in London

## Language

* Al- or "El-" (Arabic: ال), Arabic prefix meaning "the" (definite article in Arabic), used in many family names
* El (Cyrillic) (Л, л), a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet
* Greek language (ISO 639-1 language code EL)
* L (spelled-out version), a letter in the Latin alphabet

## People

* EL (rapper) (born 1983), stage name of Elorm Adablah, a Ghanaian rapper and sound engineer
* El DeBarge (born 1961), music artist
* El Franco Lee (1949–2016), American politician
* Ephrat Livni (born 1972), American street artist

## Other uses

* El (deity), Semitic word for "god" and proper name of certain deities
* Party of the European Left, a political party
* Greece (EU VAT identification: EL)