Sylvia

Sylvia

Sylvia may refer to:
*a feminine given name of Latin origin, also spelled Silvia.

Persons

*Sylvia Boots, an adult film star transsexual
*Sylvia Browne, a American psychic
*Sylvia Crawley (born 1972), an American basketball player
*Sylvia (singer) (Sylvia Jane Kirby), a country music singer, who had a number of hits during the early 1980s
*Sylvia Likens
*Sylvia Plath, American poet
*Sylvia Robinson, member of Mickey & Sylvia and 1970s disco singer
*Sylvia Ruuska (born 1942), American medley and freestyle swimmer
*Sylvia Sleigh, artist, feminist, noted for placing men in traditionally female poses within her paintings
*Sylvia Tyson, née Fricker, of the Canadian duet Ian and Sylvia
*Sylvie Vartan, a famous French singer
*Sylwia Gruchała, Polish fencer
*Tim Sylvia, former UFC heavyweight champion

In science

*"Sylvia", a genus of birds (see typical warbler)
*87 Sylvia, an asteroid

In culture

*Sylvia's Restaurant of Harlem
*"Sylvia" (novel), a 2006 historical novel by Bryce Courtenay
*one of three films:
**"Sylvia" (1965 film)
**"Sylvia" (1985 film), a New Zealand film
**"Sylvia" (2003 film), a British film
*"Sylvia" (play), a play about a dog by A.R. Gurney
*"Sylvia" (ballet) or "Sylvia ou La Nymphe de Diane", a classical ballet with music written by Léo Delibes in 1876
*"Tales from Planet Sylvia", a collection of comic strips by Nicole Hollander

ee also

* Silvia


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