Sylvia

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 can also be a surname like Tim Sylvia, a former UFC heavyweight champion.

Persons

• Sylvia, Sylvia Jane Kirby, country music singer who had a number of hits during the early 1980s
• Sylvia Baldwin, artist
• Sylvia Boots, adult film star transsexual
• Sylvia Browne, American psychic
• Sylvia Crawley American basketball player
• Sylwia Gruchała, Polish fencer
• Sylvia Likens, American murder victim
• Sylvia Plath, American poet
• Sylvia Robinson, member of Mickey & Sylvia, rhythm & blues singer and record label executive
• Sylvia Ruuska American medley and freestyle swimmer
• Sylvia Sleigh, feminist artist
• Sylvia Tyson, née Fricker, member of Ian and Sylvia, Canadian singer
• Sylvie Vartan, French singer

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• Tim Sylvia, American mixed martial arts fighter

In science

• Sylvia, a genus of birds (see typical warbler)
• 87 Sylvia, an asteroid

In culture

• Sylvia's Restaurant of Harlem
• Sylvia (novel), 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 Goat: or, Who Is Sylvia? (play), a play about a goat 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
• Sylvia, 1914 love song by Oley Speaks, sung by Paul Robeson ([1])
• Sylvia, a single from the 1972 Focus album Focus III

See also

• Silvia