Sylvia
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Sylvia may refer to:
People
- Sylvia (given name)
- Sylvia (singer), American country music and country pop singer and songwriter
- Sylvia Vrethammar, Swedish singer credited as "Sylvia" and best-known for her version of the song "Y Viva Espana"
- Sylvia Robinson, American R&B and hip-hop singer/producer, half of Mickey & Sylvia and founder of Sugar Hill Records
- Tim Sylvia, American mixed martial arts fighter
- Colin Sylvia, Australian football player
Characters
- Sylvia (Ice Age), a character in the 2002 film Ice Age
Places
- Mount Sylvia, a former name of Xueshan on Taiwan Island
- Sylvia, Kansas, a town in Kansas
- Sylvia's Restaurant of Harlem
Art, entertainment, and media
Comics
- Sylvia (comic strip), a long-running comic strip by cartoonist Nicole Hollander
Films
- Sylvia (1961 film), an Australian television play
- Sylvia (1965 film), an American drama film
- Sylvia (1985 film), a New Zealand film about New Zealand educator Sylvia Ashton-Warner,
- Sylvia (2003 film), a British biographical drama film about the romance between prominent poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
Literature
- Sylvia (1913 novel), a novel published as the work of Upton Sinclair, written by his wife Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair
- Sylvia (novel), a 2006 historical novel by Bryce Courtenay
- Sylvia (play), a play by A.R. Gurney
Music
- An Sylvia, an 1826 work by Franz Schubert
- "Sylvia", a 1914 love song by Oley Speaks, sung by Paul Robeson
- "Sylvia" (Focus song), a single from the 1972 Focus album Focus III
- "Sylvia", a single from the 2009 album Hospice by The Antlers
- "Sylvia's Mother", 1972 single
- "Sylvia" (Elvis Presley song), a song by Elvis Presley from the 1972 album Elvis Now
Stage performances
- Sylvia (ballet) or Sylvia ou La Nymphe de Diane, a classical ballet with music written by Léo Delibes in 1876
- Sylvia (musical), a musical on the life of Sylvia Pankhurst, premiered at the Old Vic in September 2018
Video games
- Sylvia Christel, a character in the No More Heroes series
Science
- Sylvia (bird), a genus of birds containing the "typical warblers"
- 87 Sylvia, an asteroid
Sports
- IF Sylvia, a Swedish football club
Ships
- USS Sylvia, the name of more than one United States Navy ship