Sylvia
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Sylvia may refer to:
- a feminine given name of Latin origin, also spelled Silvia, and like Sylvan/Silvan refers to an association with the woods.
- Sylvia, Kansas, a town in Kansas
Sylvia can also be a surname like Tim Sylvia, a former UFC heavyweight champion.
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[edit] Persons
- Sylvia, Sylvia Jane Kirby, country music singer who had a number of hits during the early 1980s
- Sylvia Anderson, British voice artist and film producer
- Sylvia Baldwin, artist
- Sylvia Boots, adult film star transsexual
- Sylvia Browne, American psychic
- Sylvia Chang, Taiwanese actress, producer and director
- Sylvia Crawley American basketball player
- Sylwia Gruchała, Polish fencer
- Sylvia Hanika, German tennis player
- Sylvia Likens, American murder victim
- Sylvia Plath, American poet
- Sylvia Pankhurst, British suffragette and Marxist
- Sylvia Robinson, member of Mickey & Sylvia, rhythm & blues singer and record label executive
- Sylvia Ruuska American medley and freestyle swimmer
- Sylvia Redrobe, American actress
- Sylvia Sidney, American actress
- Sylvia Sleigh, feminist artist
- Sylvia Syms, British actress
- Sylvia Tyson, née Fricker, member of Ian and Sylvia, Canadian singer
- Sylvie Vartan, French singer
- Tim Sylvia, American mixed martial arts fighter
[edit] In science
- Sylvia, a genus of birds (see typical warbler)
- 87 Sylvia, an asteroid
[edit] In culture
- Sylvia's Restaurant of Harlem
- Sylvia, 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, a play about a dog by A.R. Gurney
- The cat: or, Who Is Sylvia?, a play about a cat by Edward Albee
- Sylvia 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
- Le Père De Sylvia a song by Sacha Distel from the album by the same title
- Sylvia, 1914 love song by Oley Speaks, sung by Paul Robeson ([1])
- Sylvia, a single from the 1972 Focus album Focus III
[edit] In sports
- IF Sylvia is a Swedish football club
[edit] See also
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