Elektra (name)

Elektra, also spelled Electra, is a female given name. Its Greek origin (Ἠλέκτρα, Ēlektra) means "amber", and thus "shining", "incandescent". Names with similar meanings are Lucy and Svetlana. Variants are Ilektra, Ela, Elka, Elke, Elek, Elektrine.

People with the given name

• Electra, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra in Greek mythology
• Electra (Pleiad), one of the Pleiades in Greek mythology
• Electra Waggoner Biggs (1912–2001)
• Electra Carlin (1912–2000)
• Electra Collins Doren (1861–1927), suffragette and library scientist
• Electra Elite, Serbian singer and sex worker
• Electra Mustaine (born 1998)
• Electra Waggoner (1882–1925)
• Electra Havemeyer Webb (1888–1960), American museum founder

• Elektra, name used by Salina Bartunek, competitor on American Gladiators
• Elektra, ring name of Donna Adamo (born 1970), American wrestler
• Elektra Fence, English drag queen
• Elektra Shock (born 1992), New Zealand drag performer

• Elecktra Bionic, Italian drag queen

Fictional characters

• Electra (cat), in T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and in the musical Cats
• Electra the Electric Train, in Starlight Express
• Electra, Cathy's dog in the Cathy comic strip
• Electra, a stripper in the musical Gypsy
• Elektra (character), a Marvel Comics character
• Elektra (Tracy Beaker Returns character)
• Elektra, the princess of the Electric Eels from Sea Princesses
• Elektra Abundance, main character on the television show Pose
• Electra au Barca, in the Iron Gold science fiction series
• Electra Heart, central character of Marina Dimandis' 2012 album, Electra Heart
• Elektra King, in the 1999 James Bond film The World is Not Enough
• Mandy "Elektra" Perkins, in the TV series Tracy Beaker Returns and The Dumping Ground

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