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Elm

Ulmus (elms), genus of trees in Ulmaceae, Rosales, native to temperate Eurasia, North Africa, and the Americas; 37 accepted species; devastated by Dutch elm disease (Ophiostoma) spread by bark beetles.

Elm (programming language)

Elm, also known as Elmlang, is a purely functional, statically typed programming language for building web browser user interfaces, created by Evan Czaplicki in his 2012 Harvard thesis.

Elm Road power station

Elm Road Generating Station is a two-unit coal-fired power plant at We Energies' Oak Creek site on Lake Michigan, Wisconsin, operating since 2010 with about 1,268 MW capacity.

ELM327

The ELM327 is an interpreter chip by Canada's Elm Electronics, produced since 2005, that turns a vehicle's OBD-II data into plain text commands over a serial link.

Elma Saiz Delgado

Elma Saiz Delgado, born 1975 in Pamplona, is a Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politician serving as Minister for Inclusion, Social Security and Migration since November 2023.

ELMAN (musician)

ELMAN, born Elman Zeynalov in Sumgait, Azerbaijan, in 1993, is a Russian pop singer and producer who founded RAAVA Music, home of JONY, and was Russia's most-listened singer on Yandex Music in July 2024.

Elman neural network

The Elman neural network, also called a simple recurrent network, is a recurrent network that copies its hidden layer's previous activations into a context layer, enabling sequence prediction.

Elmar Borrmann

Elmar Borrmann (born 1957, Stuttgart) is a German épée fencer, twin brother of Igor Borrmann, with Olympic team gold 1984 and 1992, silver 1988, and individual world title 1983.

Elmar Thoma

Elmar Thoma (1926–2002) was a German mathematician who worked in harmonic analysis and representation theory, known for Thoma's theorem on countable discrete groups of type I.

Elmedin Konaković

Elmedin Konaković is a Bosnian politician who serves as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina and leads the party Naroda i Pravde, a central figure in the Trojka coalition.

Elmendorf Air Force Base

Elmendorf Air Force Base was a US Air Force installation near Anchorage, Alaska, built in 1940 and the state's largest until merging with Fort Richardson in 2010.

Elmenteita Badlands

Elmenteita Badlands (Ututu), a Holocene pyroclastic cone and basalt lava field in the Kenya Rift between Lake Elmenteita and Eburru volcano; highest cone 2,126 m, volcano number 222071, no confirmed Holocene eruptions.

Elmer Ambrose Sperry

Elmer Ambrose Sperry (1860–1930) was an American inventor and engineer who founded the Sperry Gyroscope Company and pioneered the gyrocompass, ship stabilizers, and automatic pilots.

Elmer Bernstein

Elmer Bernstein (1922–2004), American film composer of over 150 movie scores and nearly 80 TV scores; 14 Oscar nominations, winning for Thoroughly Modern Millie; known for The Magnificent Seven, The Man with the Golden Arm, and To Kill a Mockingbird.

Elmer Diktonius

Elmer Diktonius was a Finland-Swedish poet, writer, critic, and composer, born and died in Helsinki, who pioneered modernism in Nordic literature; his leftist-influenced debut was Min dikt (1921).

Elmer Drew Merrill

Elmer Drew Merrill (1876–1956) was an American botanist who described over 3,000 Far Eastern plant species, built the Manila herbarium, and directed the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard.

Elmer Fudd

Elmer Fudd (Elmer J. Fudd), Warner Bros. Looney Tunes hunter and Bugs Bunny's foil, assembled from Egghead, named in A Feud There Was (1938), voiced by Arthur Q. Bryan, known for "Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting wabbits."

Elmer G. Gilbert

Elmer G. Gilbert (Elmer Grant Gilbert, 1930–2019) was an American control theorist and aerospace engineer at the University of Michigan, known for the Gilbert realization and the reference governor.

Elmer Gantry (film)

Elmer Gantry (1960), Richard Brooks's United Artists drama adapted from Sinclair Lewis's 1927 novel, stars Burt Lancaster as a revivalist con man with Jean Simmons and Oscar winner Shirley Jones; it won three Academy Awards.

Elmer Keiser Bolton

Elmer Keiser Bolton (1886–1968) was an American organic chemist who directed DuPont's Chemical Department from 1930 to 1951, directing the research organizations that produced neoprene, nylon, and Teflon.

Elmer L. Gaden

Elmer L. Gaden (1923–2012) was an American biochemical engineer called the father of biochemical engineering, whose oxygen-transfer research enabled large-scale antibiotic production and who founded Biotechnology and Bioengineering.

Elmer Layden

Elmer Layden (1903-1973), American football fullback, one of Notre Dame's Four Horsemen; 1925 Rose Bowl star and 1924 national champion; Notre Dame head coach 1934-1940; first NFL commissioner 1941-1946.

Elmer McCollum

Elmer McCollum (1879–1967) was an American biochemist who discovered vitamin A, helped establish the alphabetical naming of vitamins, and pioneered rat-based nutrition research at Wisconsin and Johns Hopkins.

Elmer McCurdy

Elmer J. McCurdy (1880–1911) was an American outlaw killed by an Oklahoma posse in 1911, whose embalmed body spent decades as a traveling sideshow attraction until rediscovered in 1976.

Elmer Niklander

Elmer Konstantin Niklander (1890–1942), nicknamed Oitin kanuuna, Finnish weight thrower; 1920 Olympic discus gold, 1912 both-hands discus silver, 44 Finnish titles, 1911 discus world record 44.01.

Elmer Peter Kohler

Elmer Peter Kohler (1865–1938) was an American organic chemist and Harvard professor known for work on unsaturated compounds, including the first resolution of an allene.

Elmer Rafael Cuba Bustinza

Elmer Rafael Cuba Bustinza is a Peruvian economist who has served as Minister of Economy and Finance since July 2026, sworn in by President Keiko Fujimori.

Elmer Wayne Henley

Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. (born 1956) is an American murderer serving six consecutive 99-year terms for his role in the Houston Mass Murders; he killed Dean Corll in 1973.

Elmidae

Elmidae, riffle beetles, a beetle family (Coleoptera, Byrrhoidea) of small 1-8 mm aquatic beetles whose adults and larvae live underwater in clean flowing streams, breathe via a plastron and abdominal gills, and serve as water quality bioindicators.

Elmiene

Elmiene, stage name of Abdala Elamin (born 2001), is a British-Sudanese R&B and neo-soul singer from Oxford who went viral in 2021 covering D'Angelo, released EPs including EL-MEAN and For the Deported, and the 2026 debut album sounds for someone.