Excelsior can refer to the following:

• Excelsior, Minnesota
• Excelsior, Wisconsin
• The Excelsior District, a neighborhood in San Francisco, California
• Excelsior College, a bachelor's and master's degree-granting institution in Albany, New York
• Excelsior Rotterdam, a football club
• USS Excelsior, a starship in Star Trek
• Excelsior (car)
• Excelsior (chess) , a chess engine
• A type of packaging material similar to wood shavings.
• Excelsior, Free State is a town in South Africa
• Excelsior (comics), a support group for former teenage superheroes. Introduced in the first arc of Runaways second series.
• Several historical motorcycle manufacturers are called Excelsior — see: "Excelsior (motorcycle manufacturer)"
• The Excelsior is a hotel in Hong Kong