Sybil

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".

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 978-0-615-44600-4]
• 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

See also

• Sibylla (disambiguation)
• Sibyl