Sylvia
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Sylvia may refer to:
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[edit] Persons
- Sylvia Boots, an adult film star transsexual
- Sylvia Browne, a American psychic
- Sylvia Crawley (born 1972), an American basketball player
- Sylvia Likens
- Sylvia Plath, American poet
- Sylvia Ruuska (born 1942), American medley and freestyle swimmer
- Sylwia Gruchała, Polish fencer
- Tim Sylvia, Former UFC Heavyweight Champion
- one of three singers who have achieved success billed simply as "Sylvia":
- Sylvia Robinson, member of Mickey & Sylvia and 1970s disco singer.
- Sylvia, a country music singer, who had a number of hits during the early 1980s
- Sylvia Sleigh, artist, feminist, noted for placing men in traditionally female poses within her paintings
- Sylvia Tyson, née Fricker, of the Canadian duet Ian and Sylvia
- Sylvia Vartan, a famous French singer
[edit] In science
- a genus of birds, commonly known as typical warblers.
- an ornithological journal published by the "Czech Society for Ornithology".
- the asteroid 87 Sylvia
[edit] In culture
- Sylvia's Restaurant of Harlem
- Sylvia, a 2006 historical fiction novel by Bryce Courtenay
- one of three films:
- Sylvia (1965 film), a 1965 film.
- Sylvia (1985 film), a 1985 New Zealand film.
- Sylvia (2003 film), a 2003 British film.
- "Sylvia", a guitar instrumental by Focus
- Sylvia, a play about a dog by A.R. Gurney
- Sylvia or Sylvia ou La Nymphe de Diane, a classical ballet with music written by Léo Delibes in 1876
- Sylvia, a syndicated American newspaper comic strip by Nicole Hollander
- "Sylvia", a song by Pulp from the album This is Hardcore