Elder can refer to various topics:

• Elder (administrative title)
• Elder (religious)
• Elder (Mormonism)
• Elderly person - see: Old age

People

• William Henry Elder (1819 - 1904) bishop and Archbishop of Cincinnati
• Joycelyn Elders (born 1933), former United States Surgeon General
• Larry Elder (born 1952), an American broadcaster and talk show host
• Alexander Elder, is a professional stock trader and author in the USA
• Alexander Lang Elder (1815 - 1885) founded Elders Limited in 1840
• Thomas Elder, nineteenth-century businessman and philanthropist in South Australia

Places

• Electoral district of Elder, a state electoral district in South Australia named after Thomas Elder
• Elder Range, part of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia

Nature

• Elderberry plant (Sambucus)
• Manitoba maple plant, also known as Box-elder (maple)
• Box elder bug (Leptocoris trivittatus or Boisea trivittatus)

Fiction

• Elder (Charmed) Class of enlightened whitelighters overseeing good magic in the Charmed television series
• Elder race, any of a number of alien species in science fiction.

Other

• Elder High School, a parochial high school in Cincinnati named for William Henry Elder
• Elders Limited, an Australian agribusiness company
• Elder Vodka, produced by Znaps