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Sylvia (given name)

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Sylvia is feminine given name of Latin origin, also spelled Silvia. The French form is Sylvie.

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Namesakes

  • Saint Silvia
  • Queen Silvia of Sweden
  • Sylvia (singer), American country singer born Sylvia Jane Kirby
  • Sylvia Anderson, British voice artist and film producer
  • Sylvia Ashton-Warner, New Zealand writer, poet and educator
  • Sylvia Browne, American psychic
  • Silvia Cartwright, Governor-General of New Zealand
  • Sylvia Chang, Taiwanese actress, producer and director
  • Sylvia Constantinidis, Venezuelan-American pianist, conductor and composer
  • Sylvia Crawley, American basketball player
  • Sylvia Earle, American oceanographer and aquanaut
  • Sylwia Gruchała, Polish fencer
  • Sylvia Hanika, German tennis player
  • Sylvia Klimaki, Greek news anchor and TV host
  • Sylvia Likens, American murder victim
  • Silvia Monfort, French actress
  • Sylvia Pedlar, American lingerie designer
  • Silvia Pinal, Mexican actress
  • Sylvia Plath, American poet
  • Sylvia Poggioli, Radio news anchor
  • Sylvia Pankhurst, British suffragette and Marxist
  • Sylvia Rivera, American transgender activist
  • Sylvia Robinson, American rhythm & blues singer, member of Mickey & Sylvia, and record label executive
  • Sylvia Ruuska, American medley and freestyle swimmer
  • Sylvia Sidney, American actress*
  • Sylvia Sleigh, feminist artist
  • Sylvia Syms, British actress
  • Sylvia Tyson, née Fricker, member of Ian and Sylvia, Canadian singer
  • Sylvie Vartan, French singer
  • Sylvia Vrethammar, Swedish singer, known for 'Y Viva España' in 1971
  • Sylvia Wene, American bowler

    • Fictional characters

  • Sylvia Costas, Assistant District Attorney in the American television drama NYPD Blue
  • Sylvia Rosen, a neighbor who is friendly with Don and Megan Draper in Mad Men (season 6)
  • Sylvia Goodwin, the mother of Roy Cropper in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street.
  • Sylvia, character in the animated series Wander Over Yonder
  • Sylvia Lyyneheym, a Character in the light novel and anime of "The Asterisk War".

    • References

    Sylvia (given name) Wikipedia
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