Akela may refer to:
- Akela (The Jungle Book), the wolf featured in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories collected in The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book
- Akela (Scouting), a symbol of wisdom in the Cub Scout program, usually (but not necessarily) Cubmaster or Den Leader; intentionally named after The Jungle Book character
- Akela (cyclecar), legendary 1922 4 valves per cylinder race version of the vee twin engined GN cyclecar produced by Ron Godfrey and Capt “Archie” Frazer Nash ; intentionally named after The Jungle Book character. There were also Kim, Mogli and Riki-Tikki named cars.
- Akela (spider), spider genus
- Akela (film), a 1941 Indian film
- Akayla, a 1991 Indian film
- Akella, a Russian software developing company
- Akeelah and the Bee, a 2006 family film
- USS Akela (SP-1793), formerly steam yacht Akela, built in 1899