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
  • Mark Sylvia, American politician
  • Michael Sylvia, American politician

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

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

See also

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  • Nissan Silvia
  • Silvia (disambiguation)
  • Sylvi, given name
  • Sylvie (disambiguation)
  • Sylwia, given name
  • "Who is Sylvia?", a song in Shakespeare's play The Two Gentlemen of Verona