Sylvia

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Sylvia may refer to:

People

• Sylvia (given name)
• Sylvia (singer), American country music and country pop singer and songwriter
• Sylvia Robinson, American singer, record producer, and record label executive
• Sylvia Vrethammar, Swedish singer credited as "Sylvia" in Australia and the UK
• Tim Sylvia, American mixed martial arts fighter
• Colin Sylvia, Australian football player

Places

• Mount Sylvia, a former name of Xueshan on Taiwan Island
• Mount Sylvia, Queensland, Australia
• Sylvia, Kansas, a town in Kansas, United States
• Sylvia's Restaurant of Harlem, New York City, New York, United States
• Fort Sylvia, now Kapit, Sarawak, Malaysia

Art, entertainment, and media

Comics

• Sylvia (comic strip), a long-running comic strip by cartoonist Nicole Hollander

Films

• Sylvia (1961 film), an Australian television play
• Sylvia (1965 film), an American drama film
• Sylvia (1985 film), a New Zealand film about New Zealand educator Sylvia Ashton-Warner
• Sylvia (1985 Canadian film), a Canadian animated short film
• Sylvia (2003 film), a British biographical drama film about the romance between prominent poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

Literature

• Sylvia is a character in The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. The book was published in 1962.
• Sylvia, a 1913 novel published as the work of Upton Sinclair, written by his wife Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair
• Sylvia (novel), a 2006 historical novel by Bryce Courtenay
• Sylvia (play), a play by A.R. Gurney

Music

• An Sylvia, an 1826 work by Franz Schubert
• "Sylvia", a 1914 love song by Oley Speaks, sung by Paul Robeson
• "Sylvia" (Focus song), a single from the 1972 Focus album Focus III
• "Sylvia", a single from the 2009 album Hospice by The Antlers
• "Sylvia's Mother", 1972 single by Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show
• "Sylvia" (Elvis Presley song), a song by Elvis Presley from the 1972 album Elvis Now

Stage performances

• Sylvia (ballet) or Sylvia ou La Nymphe de Diane, a classical ballet with music written by Léo Delibes in 1876
• Sylvia (musical), a musical on the life of Sylvia Pankhurst, premiered at the Old Vic in September 2018

Video games

• Sylvia Christel, a character in the No More Heroes series

Science

• Sylvia (bird), a genus of birds containing the "typical warblers"
• 87 Sylvia, an asteroid

Sports

• IF Sylvia, a Swedish football club

Ships

• USS Sylvia, the name of more than one United States Navy ship

See also

• "Who is Sylvia?", a song in Shakespeare's play The Two Gentlemen of Verona
• Nissan Silvia
• Silvia (disambiguation)
• Sylvie (disambiguation)
• Sylwia (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Sylvia

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This page was last edited on 21 April 2024, at 10:54