Sybil
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In antiquity, the oracular seeresses of the Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean were referred to by the Greek term "sibyls". In modern times, when "Sibyl" is adopted for a woman's name, the conventional spelling is "Sybil".[citation needed]
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[edit] People
- Sibil, a pseudonym for Zabel Sibil Asadour (1863–1934), an Armenian poet, writer, publisher and philanthropist
- Sybil Dorsett, a pseudonym for Shirley Ardell Mason, a woman with alleged dissociative identity disorder
- Sibyl Buck (born 1972), an American musician
- Sibyl of Burgundy (1126–1150), a Queen Consort of Sicily
- Sybil Colefax (1874-1950) British interior designer
- Sybil Connolly (1921-1998), an Irish fashion designer
- Sybil Leek (1917-1982) an English witch
- Sybil Lynch, an American singer
- Sibyl Mary Hathaway (1884–1974), a Dame of Sark
- Sibyl Moholy-Nagy (1903–1971), a German non-fiction writer
- Sibyl Morrison (1895–1961), an Australian lawyer
- Cybill Shepherd, an American actress
[edit] Entertainment
- Sybil (book), a book written by Flora Rheta Schreiber
- Sybil (1976 film), a 1976 film starring Sally Field
- Sybil (2007 film), a 2007 remake starring Tammy Blanchard and Jessica Lange
- Sybil Lynch, American singer
- Sybil (Auchincloss), 1952 novel by Louis Auchincloss
- The Sybil English version of 1956 Swedish novel "Sibyllan" by Noble Laureate, Par Fabian Lagerkvist (Nobel Prize Literature - 1951)
- Sybil (novel) or The Two Nations, 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli
- Sybil (1921 film), a 1921 film adaptation of the novel
- Sybil, English-language version of the operetta Szibill by Victor Jacobi
- Sybil Fawlty, a character played by Prunella Scales in the British sitcom Fawlty Towers
- Sybil Birling, a character in the play, An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestley
- Sybill Trelawney, a character in the Harry Potter series, professor of Divination at Hogwarts.
- Lady Sybil Vimes, a character in the Discworld series.
- Sybil Stone, a character played by Diane Keaton in the American film The Family Stone
- Sybil Pandemik, a character in Telltale Games' Sam & Max episodes.
- Sybil Ludington, teenager who rode into town to warn people that the British were coming.
- Lady Sybil Crawley, a character played by Jessica Brown-Findlay in the British television period drama series Downton Abbey
[edit] Others
- SS Sybil (1901), a Uganda Railway Lake Victoria ferry scuttled in 1967
- Sybil attack, the use of stolen or forged multiple identities for defeating a reputation system
- "Sybil", a type of card flourishing in which a deck of cards is split into "packets" and manipulated
- Sybil (cat), a cat employed at Downing Street in the United Kingdom
[edit] In Music
- "The Song of the Sibyl", a Gregorian chant sung on Christmas Eve in Majorca
[edit] See also
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