List of individual elephants
This is a list of famous elephants
Historic elephants
- Abul-Abbas - Charlemagne's elephant
- Hanno - pet elephant of Pope Leo X
- Jumbo - P. T. Barnum's elephant
- Kandula - the most famous elephant in Sri Lanka was given to an infant prince some 2000 years ago. The king and his elephant grew up together.
- Mary the Elephant - For reasons unknown, Mary, touring with Charles H. Sparks's World Famous Show, killed her inexperienced keeper Walter "Red" Eldridge on September 12, 1916, and was executed for that "crime" on September 13, 1916 in Erwin, Tennessee by being hanged by a railroad derrick car at the Clinchfield Railroad yard. The first attempt failed, as the chain suspending her snapped, and she dropped to the ground, breaking a hip. She was resuspended, and died.
- Tuffi - a young elephant who fell from Wuppertal's suspended monorail into the river Wupper on July 21, 1950 (she survived the fall)
Fictional elephants
- Babar
- Dumbo - son of Mrs. Jumbo
- Effervescing Elephant from the song of the same name by Syd Barrett
- Hathi and his three sons from The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (renamed Colonel Hathi in the Disney cartoons)
- Horton (from Horton Hears a Who), by Dr. Seuss
- Kala Nag the working elephant from the short stories "Moti Guj - Mutineer" and "Toomai of the Elephants" by Rudyard Kipling
- Lots-A-Heart - from the Care Bears
- Nellie - from the childrens song of the same name
- Snorky - from the Banana Splits
- Uncle - from J.P. Martin's Uncle series
- Stampy - from The Simpsons
Real things shaped like elephants
- Lucy - an architectural folly in Margate, New Jersey
Fictional elephant-like things
- Aloysius Snuffleupagus - from Sesame Street
- Heffalumps - honey eating elephants from Winnie the Pooh
- The Oliphaunt, sung about by Sam Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings (in Peter Jackson's movie The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers the oliphaunts are depicted as huge elephant-like creatures with four mammoth-like tusks apiece)
Elephants in mythology
- Ganesh, an elephant-headed Hindu deity
See also
- Hatari!
- Operation Dumbo Drop
- History of elephants in Europe
- List of fictional animals
- Joseph Merrick, who was called "the Elephant Man" for his affliction, which actually had nothing to do with elephants