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Elf Bar

Elf Bar, sold in the US as EBCreate, is a Chinese-owned brand of flavored disposable e-cigarettes that became Britain's top vape brand in 2022 and was the most used among American teens by 2024.

Elf Bowling

Elf Bowling is a 1999 freeware Windows game by NStorm in which Santa bowls his striking elves as pins; it spread virally in early internet culture, spawned sequels including the shuffleboard Elves in Paradise, and a 2005 GBA/DS port scored 12 on Metacritic.

ELF3

ELF3 (ESE-1, ESX, ERT, EPR-1), E74 like ETS transcription factor 3 at 1q32.1, is an epithelium-specific ETS transcription factor regulating differentiation, EMT, inflammation, and cancers, acting as tumor suppressor or oncogene by context.

Elfatih A. B. Eltahir

Elfatih A. B. Eltahir is a Sudanese hydrologist and climatologist who holds the H. M. King Bhumibol Professorship at MIT, known for research on the Nile, extreme heat, and malaria.

Elfen Lied (エルフェンリート)

Elfen Lied (エルフェンリート) is Lynn Okamoto's 2002-2005 seinen manga about the horned mutant Diclonius Lucy and her invisible vector arms, adapted as a 13-episode 2004 ARMS anime with an original ending, later an influence on Stranger Things.

Elfenland

Elfenland is a 1998 Alan R. Moon board game from Amigo, winner of the Spiel des Jahres 1998, in which 2-6 elves visit 20 towns in four rounds using dragons, unicorns, and magic clouds; a simplified Elfenroads.

Elfetabart drozuntecan

DB-1311 (BNT324, elfetabart drozuntecan) is a DualityBio-discovered, BioNTech-partnered antibody-drug conjugate targeting B7-H3 with a topoisomerase-I inhibitor payload P1021, in phase 3 development for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Elfreth's Alley

Elfreth's Alley is a cobblestone residential street in Old City, Philadelphia, opened 1702-1704, with 32 Georgian and Federal houses, a National Historic Landmark, and a museum at 124-126.

Elfrid Payton

Elfrid Payton (born 1994, Gretna, Louisiana) is an American NBA point guard, 10th pick of the 2014 draft, All-Rookie First Team, known for triple-doubles with Orlando and play for five teams including the Hornets and Pelicans.

Elfrida Karlsone

Elfrīda Karlsone (Elfrīda Kukaine, later Bērziņa), Latvian athlete and one of Latvia's first women Olympians (Amsterdam 1928 discus, 14th); 52 Latvian records, unratified world marks in shot and javelin; later University of Western Ontario women's sport director. Not the Swedish skier Frida Karlsson.

Elfriede Geiringer

Elfriede "Fritzi" Geiringer-Markovits (1905–1998), Viennese-born Auschwitz survivor, wife of Erich Geiringer and mother of Eva Schloss; married Otto Frank in 1953 and lived with him in Basel.

Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede Jelinek, born in 1946 in Mürzzuschlag, Styria, is an Austrian novelist and playwright who won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature for works like The Piano Teacher.

ElGamal encryption

ElGamal encryption, also known as the ElGamal cryptosystem, is a public-key encryption scheme published by Taher ElGamal in 1985, based on the Diffie-Hellman key exchange.

Elgaugol

Elgaugol (Эльгауголь) is a Russian coal mining company, established in 2013, holding the license for the Elga coking coal deposit in Yakutia, one of the world's largest.

Elgie Sims

Elgie R. Sims Jr. is an American attorney and Democratic member of the Illinois Senate from the 17th district, covering Chicago's South Side and south suburbs.

Elgin Baylor

Elgin Baylor (1934-2021), Lakers forward 1958-71, first above-the-rim player; 27.4 ppg career, 71-point game, 61 in a Finals game, 1959 Charleston civil rights boycott, no championship.

Elgin City F.C.

Elgin City F.C. is a Scottish senior football club based in Elgin, Moray, that plays in Scottish League Two, the fourth tier of Scottish football, at Borough Briggs.

Elgin Marbles

The Elgin Marbles, also called the Parthenon Marbles, are classical Greek sculptures removed from the Parthenon in Athens by Lord Elgin and held in the British Museum since 1816.

Elgin National Watch Company

The Elgin National Watch Company, formerly the National Watch Co, was an American watch manufacturer in Elgin, Illinois, and by the late 1920s the world's leading mass producer of watches.

Elgin Oil and Gas Field

The Elgin Oil and Gas Field is a high-pressure, high-temperature gas and condensate field in the Central Graben of the UK North Sea, developed with the adjacent Franklin field by TotalEnergies.

Elgin Rogers

Elgin Rogers, Jr. is an American Democratic politician in the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 42nd district around Toledo since 2025 after first winning election in 2022.

Elgin, Illinois

Elgin, Illinois: Fox River city about 38 miles northwest of Chicago, founded 1835, incorporated 1854; 2020 population 114,797, sixth largest in Illinois; historic dairy and Elgin National Watch Company center.

Elgin, Moray

Elgin, Moray: Scottish city and royal burgh, administrative capital of Moray; cathedral founded 1224, burned by the Wolf of Badenoch in 1390; population about 24,640.

Elginhaugh Roman fort

Elginhaugh Roman fort: Flavian (late 1st-century AD) Roman auxiliary fort in Midlothian, Scotland, above the North Esk. Identified by aerial photography in 1979, fully excavated 1986; the most completely excavated timber-built auxiliary fort in the Roman Empire, garrisoned by a cavalry vexillation.

Elginskiy Coal Mine

The Elginskiy Coal Mine (Эльгинское месторождение, also called the Elga deposit) is a large open-pit coking coal mine in the Neryungri Region of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia.

ElGrandeToto

ElGrandeToto, born Taha Fahssi in 1996, is a Moroccan rapper from Casablanca who raps in Darija, French, and English, and has topped Morocco's Spotify rankings every year since 2020.

Elhanan Helpman

Elhanan Helpman (אלחנן הלפמן) is an Israeli economist, cofounder of new trade theory and new growth theory, and Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade at Harvard.

Eli (2019 film)

Eli (2019) is an American supernatural horror film directed by Ciarán Foy, starring Charlie Shotwell as a boy with an autoimmune disorder haunted at an isolated clinic. Sold by Paramount to Netflix, released October 18, 2019.

Eli (musician)

Eli (Eli Miller, born 2000) is an American trans pop singer-songwriter from Norfolk, Massachusetts, who rose via TikTok ballads and the 2025 debut album Stage Girl, later reissued on RCA as Stage Girl (Not A Dream Anymore).

Eli (עלי) (biblical figure)

Eli, also known as Eli HaCohen, is the high priest and judge who led the sanctuary at Shiloh, trained Samuel, and died at 98 when the ark was captured.