Sylva

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Sylva may refer to:

Geography

• Sylva, North Carolina, a town in the United States
• Sylva River, a river in Russia
• Sylva, Russia, several rural localities in Russia

Music

• Sylva (Snarky Puppy album), the 9th album by American jazz fusion group Snarky Puppy with the Metropole Orkest

Organizations

• Sylva Autokits, a kit car manufacturer in England
• Sylva Foundation, a tree and forestry charity operating in Britain

Other uses

• Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber, a 1664 work by John Evelyn, first published in the 17th century

People with the given name

• Sylva Kelegian (born 1962), American actress
• Sylva Koscina (1933–1994), Italian actress
• Sylva Langova (1921–2010), Czech actress

People with the surname

• Buddy DeSylva (1895–1950), American songwriter
• Carmen Sylva (1843–1916), German writer and poet, nom de plum of Elisabeth of Wied, queen consort of Romania
• Marguerite Sylva (1875–1957), Belgian mezzo-soprano
• Rene Sylva (1929–2008), American botanist
• Timipre Sylva (born c. 1960), Nigerian politician
• Tony Sylva (born 1975), Senegalese footballer
• Vincent Da Sylva (born 1973), Senegalese basketball player

See also

• Silva (disambiguation)
• Sylvanian Families, a line of collectible anthropomorphic animal figures made of flocked plastic