Sylvia
Encyclopedia
Sylvia may refer to:
- A feminine given name of Latin origin, also spelled Silvia. The French form is Sylvie.
- Sylvia, KansasSylvia, KansasSylvia is a city in Reno County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 218.-Geography:Sylvia is located at . According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....
, a town in Kansas
Persons
- Saint SilviaSaint SilviaSaint Silvia was the mother of St. Gregory the Great; she had another son but his name did not survive through the ages. She is also venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church...
- Queen Silvia of SwedenQueen Silvia of Sweden|align=right|Queen Silvia of Sweden is the Queen consort of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. Styled Her Majesty The Queen, Silvia is the mother of the heir apparent to the throne, Crown Princess Victoria.-Childhood:Queen Silvia was born in Heidelberg, Germany, on 23 December 1943...
- Sylvia (singer)Sylvia (singer)Sylvia Jane Kirby is an American country music and country pop singer and songwriter. More commonly known by the singular name Sylvia, she enjoyed crossover music success with the song "Nobody" in 1982....
, American country singer born Sylvia Jane Kirby - Sylvia AndersonSylvia AndersonSylvia Anderson , born 25 March 1937, is a British voice artist and film producer, most notable for collaborations with Gerry Anderson, to whom she was married from 1962 to 1975....
, British voice artist and film producer - Sylvia BrowneSylvia BrowneSylvia Browne is an American author who describes herself as a psychic and spiritual medium...
, American psychic - Silvia CartwrightSilvia CartwrightDame Silvia Rose Cartwright, PCNZM, DBE, QSO, DStJ was the 18th Governor-General of New Zealand.She is a graduate of the University of Otago, where she gained her LL.B degree in 1967, and a former student at Otago Girls' High School.- Public life and family :In 1989, she became the first female...
, Governor-General of New Zealand - Sylvia ChangSylvia ChangSylvia Chang is a Taiwanese actress, writer, singer, producer and director. In 1992, she was a member of the jury at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival.- Actress :...
, Taiwanese actress, producer and director - Sylvia CrawleySylvia CrawleySylvia Crawley is a former collegiate and professional women's basketball forward, licensed minister and motivational speaker...
American basketball player - Sylwia Gruchała, Polish fencer
- Sylvia HanikaSylvia HanikaSylvia Hanika is a former professional tennis player from Germany. She is best remembered for finishing runner-up at the French Open in 1981, and for winning the Avon Championships in 1982. She was ranked as high as No. 5 in the world and played left-handed.-Career:Hanika turned professional in 1977...
, German tennis player - Sylvia LikensSylvia LikensSylvia Marie Likens was an American murder victim from Indiana. She was tortured to death by Gertrude Baniszewski , Gertrude's children, and other young people from their neighborhood...
, American murder victim - Silvia MonfortSilvia MonfortSilvia Monfort was a French actress and theatre director. Daughter of the sculptor Charles Favre-Bertin and wife of Pierre Gruneberg....
, French actress - Silvia PinalSilvia PinalSilvia Pinal is a Mexican actress, who had roles in several of Luis Buñuel's movies such as El ángel exterminador and Viridiana...
, Mexican actress - Sylvia PlathSylvia PlathSylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. Born in Massachusetts, she studied at Smith College and Newnham College, Cambridge before receiving acclaim as a professional poet and writer...
, American poet - Sylvia PankhurstSylvia PankhurstEstelle Sylvia Pankhurst was an English campaigner for the suffragist movement in the United Kingdom. She was for a time a prominent left communist who then devoted herself to the cause of anti-fascism.-Early life:...
, British suffragette and Marxist - Sylvia RobinsonSylvia RobinsonSylvia Robinson was an American singer, musician, record producer, and record label executive, most notably known for her work as founder/CEO of the hip hop label Sugar Hill Records. She is credited as the driving force behind two landmark singles in the genre...
, American rhythm & blues singer (member of Mickey & SylviaMickey & SylviaMickey & Sylvia was an American R&B duo, composed of Mickey Baker and Sylvia Robinson. They were the first big seller for Groove Records.Mickey was a music instructor and Sylvia one of his pupils. Baker was inspired to form the group by the success of Les Paul & Mary Ford. They had a Top 20 hit...
), and record label executive - Sylvia RuuskaSylvia RuuskaSylvia Elina Ruuska is a retired medley and freestyle swimmer from the United States, who won two Olympic medals at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia when she was aged fourteen. She captured silver with the women's relay team in the 4x100 m freestyle and bronze in the individual 400...
American medley and freestyle swimmer - Sylvia SidneySylvia SidneySylvia Sidney was an American actress who rose to prominence in the 1930s appearing in numerous crime dramas.-Early life:...
, American actress* - Sylvia SleighSylvia SleighSylvia Sleigh was a Welsh-born naturalised American realist painter...
, feminist artist - Sylvia SymsSylvia SymsSylvia M. L. Syms OBE is a British actress. She is probably best known for her roles in the films Woman in a Dressing Gown , Ice-Cold in Alex , No Trees in the Street , Victim and The Tamarind Seed...
, British actress - Sylvia TysonSylvia TysonSylvia Tyson, CM , is a musician, performer, singer-songwriter and broadcaster. From 1959 to 1974, she was half of the popular folk duo Ian & Sylvia with Ian Tyson....
, née Fricker, member of Ian and Sylvia, Canadian singer - Sylvie VartanSylvie VartanSylvie Vartan is a French singer. She was one of the first rock girls in France. Vartan was the most productive and active of the yé-yé style artists, considered as the toughest-sounding of those. Her performance often featured elaborate show-dance choreography. She made many appearances on French...
, French singer - Sylvia WeneSylvia WeneSylvia Wene , also known as Sylvia Wene Martin, is an American former bowler.Wene is Jewish, and was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
, American bowler
- Tim SylviaTim SylviaTimothy Deane Sylvia is an American professional mixed martial arts fighter, professional wrestler, and former Ultimate Fighting Championship Heavyweight Champion. He trains as a member of the Miletich Fighting Systems camp and is part of their MFSE group...
, American mixed martial arts fighter
In culture
- Sylvia (comic strip)Sylvia (comic strip)Sylvia is a long-running comic strip by American cartoonist Nicole Hollander that offers commentary on political, social and cultural topics, and on cats, primarily in the voice of its title character, Sylvia...
, a long-running comic strip by cartoonist Nicole HollanderNicole HollanderNicole Hollander is an American cartoonist and writer. Her daily comic strip Sylvia is syndicated to newspapers nationally by Tribune Media Services and also can be seen on her blog, BadGirl Chats.... - Sylvia (1965 film)Sylvia (1965 film)Sylvia is a drama film directed by Gordon Douglas, written by Sydney Boehm and starring George Maharis, Carroll Baker and Peter Lawford.Released by Paramount Pictures, it was filmed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.-Plot:...
, an American drama - Sylvia (1985 film)Sylvia (1985 film)Sylvia is a 1985 New Zealand biographical film about author Sylvia Ashton-Warner. The film was directed by Michael Firth, and stars Eleanor David, Nigel Terry, and Tom Wilkinson....
, a New Zealand film - Sylvia (2003 film)Sylvia (2003 film)Sylvia is a 2003 British biographical drama film directed by Christine Jeffs and starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig, Jared Harris, and Michael Gambon. It tells the true story of the romance between prominent poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes...
, a British film - Sylvia (ballet)Sylvia (ballet)Sylvia, originally Sylvia, ou La nymphe de Diane, is a full-length ballet in two or three acts, first choreographed by Louis Mérante to music by Léo Delibes in 1876. Sylvia is a typical classical ballet in many respects, yet it has many interesting features which make it unique...
or Sylvia ou La Nymphe de Diane, a classical ballet with music written by Léo Delibes in 1876 - Sylvia (novel)Sylvia (novel)Sylvia is a 2006 novel by Australian author, Bryce Courtenay. It follows a teenage girl, Sylvia Honeyeater, during the Children's Crusade. It explores themes of religion, womanhood, abuse and childhood.- Plot summary :...
, a 2006 historical novel by Bryce Courtenay - Sylvia (1913 novel), a novel published as the work of Upton SinclairUpton SinclairUpton Beall Sinclair Jr. , was an American author who wrote close to one hundred books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle . It exposed conditions in the U.S...
, written by his wife Mary Craig Kimbrough SinclairMary Craig SinclairMary Craig Sinclair was a writer and the wife of Upton Sinclair.-Early life and education:She was born Mary Craig Kimbrough in Greenwood, Mississippi on February 12, 1882, the oldest child of Mary Hunter and her husband Allan McCaskill Kimbrough, a judge... - Sylvia (play)Sylvia (play)Sylvia is a play about a dog, the couple who adopts her,and the drama that results. It was written by A. R. Gurney and first produced in 1995....
, a play by A.R. Gurney - Sylvia's Restaurant of HarlemSylvia's Restaurant of HarlemSylvia's Restaurant of Harlem is a soul food restaurant in New York City. It was founded in 1962 by Sylvia Woods. It has since expanded to a much larger space at 328 Lenox Avenue , and an adjacent building...
- "Sylvia", 1914 love song by Oley SpeaksOley SpeaksOley Speaks was an accomplished composer and songwriter who was born in Canal Winchester, Franklin County, Ohio...
, sung by Paul Robeson - "Sylvia", a single from the 1972 Focus album Focus IIIFocus IIIFocus 3 is a double-album by progressive rock band Focus, which was released in 1972, peaking #6 on the UK charts. It includes "Sylvia", a worldwide hit that reached #4 on the UK charts and #89 on the US charts...