To provide an electron emitting element which can perform easily electric field concentration and has excellent electron emitting capacity with good uniformity and stability, and uses a nano carbon material that can be fabricated with a simple process of high controllability, its manufacturing method, and a surface light-emitting element.

The electron emitting element of field emission type that emits electrons with a strong electric field is equipped with a substrate and a nano carbon material of fiber shape on the substrate having a projection shape with a diameter of 10 nm or more and a height of 100 nm or more and 100 m or less.