EL or El may mean:

• El (god), a Semitic word for 'god' and the name of a particular northwest Semitic father god who was head of many pantheons and identified with God in the Tanakh.
• El is a 1953 movie directed by Luis Buñuel
• el is the language code for Greek
• An elevated railway passenger line, as in "take the el"
• "el" is Spanish for "the" and thus occurs in many place names and other names.
• "el" is Romanian for "he".
• "el" is a spelled out form of the letter L in English, and is often used in Scrabble.