Silvestre

Silvestre is a Spanish and Portuguese given name or surname, or a French surname. Notable people with the name include:

Surname

• Franck Silvestre (born 1967), a retired French footballer,
• Israel Silvestre (1621 – 1691), called the Younger to distinguish him from his father, was a prolific French draftsman,
• Louis de Silvestre(1675 – 1760), a French portrait and history painter, (son of Israel Silvestre)
• Manuel Silvestre (born 1965), a former Spanish water polo player,
• Matías Silvestre (born 1984), Argentine football (soccer) player,
• Mikaël Silvestre (born 1977), French football (soccer) player,
• Paul Armand Silvestre (1837 – 1901), French poet and conteur,
• Silvestre de Sacy (1758 – 1838), a French linguist and orientalist.

Part of combined surname

• Manuel Fernández Silvestre (1871 – 1921), was a Spanish military general,
• Paulo Sérgio Silvestre do Nascimento (born 1969), a former Brazilian footballer.

Fictional

• José Silvestre in H. Rider Haggard's adventure novel King Solomon's Mines (1885).

Given name

• Silvestre S. Herrera
• Silvestre Igoa
• Silvestre Selva
• Silvestre Rasuk
• Silvestre Reyes
• Silvestre Dangond
• Silvestre Vélez de Escalante
• Silvestre Siale Bileka
• Silvestre Varela

See also

• Silvestre, Rio de Janeiro, a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro
• Encina de San Silvestre
• San Silvestre School
• San Silvestre Vallecana