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Look up sylvia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Sylvia may refer to:
- A feminine given name of Latin origin, also spelled Silvia. The French form is Sylvie.
- Sylvia, Kansas, a town in Kansas
Persons
- Saint Silvia
- Queen Silvia of Sweden
- Sylvia (singer), American country singer born Sylvia Jane Kirby
- Sylvia, American rhythm & blues singer born Sylvia Vanderpool Robinson - member of Mickey & Sylvia, and record label executive
- Sylvia Anderson, British voice artist and film producer
- Sylvia Browne, American psychic
- Silvia Cartwright, Governor-General of New Zealand
- 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
- Silvia Monfort, French actress
- Silvia Pinal, Mexican actress
- Sylvia Plath, American poet
- Sylvia Pankhurst, British suffragette and Marxist
- Sylvia Ruuska American medley and freestyle swimmer
- 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
In science
- 87 Sylvia, an asteroid
- Sylvia, a genus of birds (see typical warbler)
In culture
- Sylvia (comic strip), a long-running comic strip by cartoonist Nicole Hollander
- Sylvia (1965 film), an American drama
- Sylvia (1985 film), a New Zealand film
- Sylvia (2003 film), a British film
- Sylvia (ballet) or Sylvia ou La Nymphe de Diane, a classical ballet with music written by Léo Delibes in 1876
- Sylvia (novel), a 2006 historical novel by Bryce Courtenay
- Sylvia (1913 novel), a novel published as the work of Upton Sinclair, written by his wife Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair
- Sylvia (play), a play by A.R. Gurney
- Sylvia's Restaurant of Harlem
- "Sylvia", 1914 love song by Oley Speaks, sung by Paul Robeson
- "Sylvia", a single from the 1972 Focus album Focus III
In sports
- IF Sylvia, a Swedish football club
Ships
- USS Sylvia, the name of more than one United States Navy ship