Silvanus

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Silvanus may refer to:

  • Silvanus (mythology), a Roman tutelary spirit of woods, apparently inherited from the Etruscan deity Selvan
  • Silvanus, also called Silas, an early Christian and companion of Paul
  • Silvanus of the Seventy, another early Christian and traditionally among Jesus' seventy apostles
  • Saint Silvanus was one of the seven sons of Saint Felicity of Rome (2nd century).
  • Saint Sylvanus, Bishop of Emesa in Phoenicia, martyred in the company of Saint Luke the Deacon and Saint Mucius the Lector in the persecutions of Maximian, c. 311
  • Claudius Silvanus, a Roman usurper in 355.
  • Teachings of Silvanus, a Gnostic text among the texts of the Nag Hammadi library, hidden in Egypt when heterodox writings were being collected and burned and rediscovered in 1945
  • Silvanus Melea Otieno, posthumously controversial Kenyan lawyer
  • Silvanus Trevail Cornish architect
  • Silvanus Trust, a charitable organization that works to develop the viable and sustainable management of small woodlands, concentrating in the southwest of England
  • Silvanus (Forgotten Realms), a Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons deity.

A variant, Sylvanus, may refer to:

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