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Elite Ice Hockey League
Elite Ice Hockey League (EIHL), Motorpoint Elite Ice Hockey League, UK top-tier professional ice hockey founded 2003 with 10 teams playing 54 games; record 1,321,128 attendance in 2025/26.
Elite League (speedway)
Elite League (speedway): top division of British league speedway until 2016, also called Elite League. Play-off champions from 2002 included Poole (five titles) and Wolverhampton; replaced in 2017 by the SGB Premiership.
Elite League (엘리트 리그) (TV series)
Elite League is a Coupang Play South Korean reality survival series, first released November 3, 2023, in which top students from Seoul National University, KAIST, and other elite universities compete in brain battles; season 3 used a medical vs. STEM format.
Elite Model Management
Elite Model Management, founded in Paris in 1972 by John Casablancas, is an international modeling agency network behind Elite Model Look and the supermodel era, now part of Elite World Group with offices worldwide.
Elite Squad
Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite) is José Padilha's 2007 Brazilian drama about Rio's BOPE police unit, starring Wagner Moura as Captain Nascimento; it won the 2008 Berlin Golden Bear and sparked national controversy over police brutality.
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (Tropa de Elite 2) is a 2010 Brazilian crime-political film directed by José Padilha, starring Wagner Moura as Colonel Nascimento.
Elite Syncopations (ballet)
Elite Syncopations is Kenneth MacMillan's 1974 one-act ragtime ballet for The Royal Ballet, set to Scott Joplin and others with an onstage band, Spurling costumes, premiered 7 October 1974 at Covent Garden.
Elite theory
Elite theory: political and sociological doctrine from Pareto, Mosca, and Michels holding that a ruling minority always governs, including in democracies; includes Michels' iron law of oligarchy, democratic elitism, and pluralist rivals.
Elite wheelchair tennis seasons and match records
Elite wheelchair tennis seasons are the year-by-year competitive records of top players on the ITF wheelchair tour, whose 2017 Wheelchair World Champions were Yui Kamiji, Gustavo Fernandez, and David Wagner.
EliteBus
EliteBus is a satellite bus product line developed by Thales Alenia Space in France for telecommunications constellations, serving as the common platform for second-generation Globalstar, O3b, and Iridium NEXT.
Eliteserien
Eliteserien, also known as the Norwegian Premier League or Tippeligaen, is the top men's football division in Norway, contested by 16 clubs over 30 matches since 2017.
Elitism
Elitism, or elite theory, is the political-sociological doctrine of Mosca, Pareto, and Michels that every society is ruled by an organized minority, with concepts like circulation of elites and the iron law of oligarchy.
Elitloppet
Elitloppet, the Elite Race, is Sweden's premier Group 1 harness race for trotters, run over 1,609 m at Solvalla, Stockholm, on the last Sunday in May since 1952; 16 invited horses, two heats plus final, first prize five million kronor, Allegiant's world record 1.07.1 in 2026.
Elitni Odredi
Elitni Odredi (Елитни Одреди) were a Serbian pop-rap duo from Belgrade formed in 2005 by rappers Relja Popović and Vladimir Matović, who split in 2015.
Elitzur–Vaidman bomb tester
The Elitzur–Vaidman bomb tester, proposed by Avshalom Elitzur and Lev Vaidman in 1993, is a quantum scheme that detects objects without a photon touching them.
Elitzur's theorem
Elitzur's theorem, proved by Shmuel Elitzur in 1975, is a result in lattice gauge theory stating that a local gauge symmetry cannot be spontaneously broken, so gauge-variant observables vanish.
Eliud Kipchoge
Eliud Kipchoge (born 1984), Kenyan marathon runner, two-time Olympic champion, world records 2:01:39 (2018) and 2:01:09 (2022), first under two hours unofficially (1:59:40, Vienna 2019), ten straight marathon wins 2014-2019.
Elivagar Flumina
Elivagar Flumina is a 260 km braided, radar-bright river channel and alluvial fan system on Titan east of Menrva crater, IAU-named in 2007 after the Norse Élivágar rivers, likely shaped by flash floods of methane rain.
Elivaldogene autotemcel
Elivaldogene autotemcel (SKYSONA, eli-cel) is bluebird bio's autologous lentiviral HSC gene therapy for boys 4-17 with early, active cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy, FDA-approved 2022, carrying a boxed warning for insertional-oncogenesis-related blood cancers.
Elixir
Elixir: a clear, sweetened hydroalcoholic oral drug solution (ethanol roughly 3–40%), a traditional dosage form from Paracelsus-era pharmacy; distinct from syrups by alcohol content, now deprecated by USP in favor of "solution".
Elixir (programming language)
Elixir, also known as the Elixir language, is a dynamic, functional programming language created by José Valim in 2012, running on the Erlang virtual machine for scalable, fault-tolerant applications.
Elixir of life
Elixir of life: a potion believed in Chinese alchemy (waidan, neidan) and Western alchemy to confer immortality; notably pursued by Qin Shi Huang and compounded chiefly from toxic cinnabar (mercury sulfide), causing documented elixir poisoning.
Eliya Cohen (אלי-ה כהן) (hostage)
Eliya Cohen (אלי-ה כהן), Israeli Nova festival hostage abducted 7 October 2023, held chained in Gaza tunnels 505 days, starved and wounded, released 22 February 2025 in the ceasefire deal's first phase; husband of survivor and campaigner Ziv Abud.
Eliyahou Harari
Eliyahou (Eli) Harari is a physicist and entrepreneur who invented the first practical floating-gate EEPROM, co-founded SanDisk in 1988, and led it as chief executive until 2010.
Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron
Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron (אליהו בקשי דורון) was an Israeli rabbi who served as Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, holding the title Rishon LeZion, from 1993 to 2003.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Eliyahu M. Goldratt was an Israeli physicist, management consultant, and author who created the Theory of Constraints and introduced it through his 1984 business novel The Goal.
ELIZA
ELIZA, also known as Eliza AI, is a natural language conversation program written by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT and published in 1966, usually considered the first chatbot.
Eliza (English singer)
ELIZA, born Eliza Sophie Caird in 1988, is the English singer-songwriter formerly known as Eliza Doolittle, whose 2010 debut hit No 3 in the UK before she went independent with the neo-soul albums A Real Romantic, A Sky Without Stars, and The Darkening Green.
Eliza (given name)
Eliza is a feminine given name, a short form of Elizabeth introduced by Elizabethan poets and now used independently in English, Polish, Hungarian, and other languages. US rank #115 (2025), Poland rank 129 with 29,641 bearers.
Eliza Bennett
Eliza Bennett, English actress and singer born 1992 in Reading, Berkshire; began in West End's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, starred as Meggie in Inkheart, Jules Thomas in Sweet/Vicious, Amanda Carrington in Dynasty, and Marjorie Kern in Sexy Beast.