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* [[Sybil (1976 film)|''Sybil'' (1976 film)]], a 1976 film starring Sally Field |
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* [[Sybil (2007 film)|''Sybil'' (2007 film)]], a 2007 remake starring Tammy Blanchard and Jessica Lange |
* [[Sybil (2007 film)|''Sybil'' (2007 film)]], a 2007 remake starring Tammy Blanchard and Jessica Lange |
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* SYBIL In Her Own Words: The Untold Story of Shirley Mason, Her Multiple Personalities and Paintings (2011), a book written by Patrick Suraci, Ph.D. [ISBN |
* SYBIL In Her Own Words: The Untold Story of Shirley Mason, Her Multiple Personalities and Paintings (2011), a book written by Patrick Suraci, Ph.D. [ISBN 9780615560472] |
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* [[Sybil Lynch]], American singer |
* [[Sybil Lynch]], American singer |
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*''[[Sybil (Auchincloss)]]'', 1952 novel by [[Louis Auchincloss]] |
*''[[Sybil (Auchincloss)]]'', 1952 novel by [[Louis Auchincloss]] |
Revision as of 19:54, 7 January 2012
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]
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 whose story was told in:
- 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
- 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
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 In Her Own Words: The Untold Story of Shirley Mason, Her Multiple Personalities and Paintings (2011), a book written by Patrick Suraci, Ph.D. [ISBN 9780615560472]
- 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
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
In Music
- "The Song of the Sibyl", a Gregorian chant sung on Christmas Eve in Majorca