- Colin Sylvia
Colin Sylvia (born November 8, 1985) is an Australian rules footballer currently playing with the Melbourne Football Club. Sylvia was the 3rd pick in the 2003 AFL Draft, but was held back in his debut season due to a nagging groin injury. He managed just 3 senior games for the year. 2005 saw Sylvia play 16 senior games and earn a Rising Star nomination. His season was cut short due to a shoulder dislocation while playing for the Demons' VFL affiliate Sandringham Zebras.
- Lim Swee Lian Sylvia
Lim Swee Lian Sylvia (born 28 March 1965) is the Chairman of the Workers' Party of Singapore and a Lecturer and manager of Continuing Education and Training at Temasek Polytechnic in Singapore. She is presently the only Non-Constituency Member of Parliament in the Singapore Parliament.
- Tim Sylvia
Timothy Deane "The Maine-iac" Sylvia (born March 5 1976) is an American professional mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter. He is the former Ultimate Fighting Championship Heavyweight Champion and holds a professional record of 23 wins and 3 losses. He trains as a member of the Miletich Fighting Systems (MFS) camp and is part of their MFSE (Miletich Fighting System Elite) group.
- Ted Hughes
Edward James Hughes OM (17 August 1930 - 28 October 1998) was an English poet and children's writer, known as Ted Hughes. Critics routinely rank him as one of the best poets of his generation. Hughes was British Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death. Ted Hughes was married from 1956-63 to the American poet Sylvia Plath, who committed suicide in 1963 at the age of 30. His part in the relationship became controversial, …
- A. R. Gurney
A.R. Gurney (b. November 1, 1930) is an American playwright and novelist. The playwright is known for works including Love Letters, The Cocktail Hour, and The Dining Room. Gurney currently lives in both New York and Connecticut.
- Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Sylvia Constance Ashton-Warner, New Zealand writer, poet and educator, was born on December 17, 1908, in Stratford, New Zealand. She spent many years teaching Māori children, using stimulating and often pioneering techniques which she wrote about in her 1963 treatise "Teacher" and in the various volumes of her autobiography.
- Amira Casar
Amira Casar is a British-born French actress. Born on July 1, 1971, the daughter of a Kurdish father and a Russian opera singer, Casar grew up in England and Ireland. Discovered by photographer Helmut Newton, she worked as a model for Chanel and Jean-Paul Gaultier, studying drama in the "Conservatoire National D'Art Dramatique" in Paris.
- Christine Jeffs
"Christine Jeffs" is a New Zealand born film director perhaps best known for directing the British motion picture Sylvia, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Daniel Craig.
- Leonard Michaels
Leonard Michaels (January 2, 1933- May 10, 2003) was an American writer of short stories, novels, and essays. He was born in New York City and earned a B.A. from New York University and a M.A. as well as a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Michigan, before spending most of his adult life in Berkeley, California. "Going Places", his first book of short stories, …
- Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez (born London, August 5 1929) is an English poet, writer and critic who publishes under the name A. Alvarez and Al Alvarez. Born Alfred Alvarez, he was educated at Oundle School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he took a First in English. After teaching briefly in Oxford and the USA, he became a fulltime writer in his late twenties.
- Jack Llewelyn Davies
John "Jack" Llewelyn Davies, was the second oldest of the Llewelyn Davies boys befriended by J. M. Barrie. He and his older brother George - and to a lesser extent his younger brother Peter - took part in play adventures with Barrie which provided much of the inspiration for the adventures in the 1904 stage play "Peter Pan". The character of John Darling was named after him. Following the deaths of his parents Arthur and Sylvia, …
- Taylor Hawkins
Oliver Taylor Hawkins (born on February 16, 1972 at Harris Hospital, Fort Worth, Texas) is an American musician, best known as the drummer of the rock band Foo Fighters. Prior to joining the band in 1997, he was the touring drummer for Alanis Morissette on her Jagged Little Pill tour, as well as the drummer in a short-lived experimental band called Sylvia. He started a band named Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders, in which he plays drums and sings.
- Sylvia Kirby
Sylvia (born Sylvia Jane Kirby December 9, 1956 in Kokomo, Indiana) is an American country music and country pop singer and songwriter, who enjoyed crossover music success with the song "Nobody" in 1982. Although she released several records from the late 1970s until the 1990s, she is best known for her crossover pop hit "Nobody", which reached #13 Pop and #1 Country in 1982.
- Alison Owen
Alison Owen is a British film producer and mother of pop singer Lily Allen and actor Alfie Owen-Allen with her ex-husband, comedian Keith Allen. Her credits as a producer include "Elizabeth" (1998), "Sylvia" (2003), "Shaun of the Dead" (2004) and "Proof" (2005).
- Nancy Kovack
Nancy Kovack (b. March 11 1935, Flint, Michigan) is an American actress.
- Hadoram Shirihai
Hadoram Shirihai (born Israel 1962) is an Israeli ornithologist and writer. Shirihai grew up in Jerusalem where he became fascinated with birds when he was 13 and spent much time documenting shorebird behaviour, raptor breeding biology and participating in bird migration surveys. During the 1980s and 1990s, he lived in Eilat on Israel's Red Sea coast, where he founded the International Birdwatching Center, becoming its first director.
- Tariq Anwar
Tariq Anwar is an Iranian film editor, whose credits include "Center Stage", "The Good Shepherd", and "Sylvia". He is the father of actress Gabrielle Anwar. He is Iranian born but is based in the United Kingdom
- Mary Beth Peil
Mary Beth Peil (born June 25, 1940) is an American opera singer and actress. Born in Davenport, Iowa, Peil (pronounced "peel") trained as an opera singer at Northwestern University under Lotte Lehmann. There she became a member of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority. In the 1960s, the soprano toured with Boris Goldovsky's opera company and the Metropolitan Opera's national company singing such roles as Susannah in Mozart and da Ponte's "The Marriage of Figaro".
- Sonia Rodriguez
Sonia Rodriguez is a Canadian ballet dancer. Born in Toronto, Ontario, she moved to Madrid, Spain, at age five. Rodriguez received dance training there with Pedro de la Cruz and also at the Princess Grace Academy in Monaco. In 1989, at an international competition in Capri, Rodriguez won the Enrico Cecchetti award, and the following year she returned to Canada to join the National Ballet of Canada.
- John Tillinger
John Tillinger (born June 28, 1938) is theatre director and actor. Born in Tabriz, Iran, Tillinger was raised in England, where he first was exposed to the theatre. He spent his early years on Broadway as an actor, appearing in "A Day in the Death of Joe Egg" (1968), "Othello" (1970), "Hay Fever" (1970), and "The Changing Room" (1973). Tillinger's first Broadway directing credit was "Solomon's Child" in 1982.
- Jules Barbier
Jules Barbier was a French poet, writer and opera librettist who often wrote in collaboration with Michel Carré.
- Louis Mérante
Louis Alexandre Méranté was a dancer and choreographer, the "Maître de Ballet" (First Balletmaster/Chief Choreographer) at the Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique until it's destruction by fire in 1873, and subsequently the first Ballet Master of the Palais Garnier, Paris. He is best remembered as the choreographer of Léo Delibes' "Sylvia, ou la nymphe de Diane" (1876).
- Adela Pankhurst
Adela Pankhurst Walsh (1885-1961) was an Australian suffragette, political organizer, and co-founder of both the Communist Party of Australia and the Australia First Movement. Adela was born in England into a politicized family: her father, Richard Pankhurst was a socialist and candidate for Parliament, and her mother Emmeline Pankhurst and sisters Sylvia and Christabel were leaders of the British suffragist movement.
- Sylvia Del del Villard
Sylvia del Villard (February 28, 1928-February 28, 1990) born in Santurce, a section of San Juan, Puerto Rico, was an actress, dancer, choreographer and Afro-Puerto Rican activist. As a young child, Del Villard would entertain her parents, Agustin and Marcoline Del Villard, with her dances. Her family considered her very talented and she was also a good student at school.
- Rod Beattie
Rod Beattie is a Canadian actor who is best known for performing the Wingfield Series of plays by Dan Needles. In these plays Beattie plays all the characters, employing changes in voice or facial expression to denote which character he is playing. He has appeared in productions of these plays across Canada and on TV, and in 1991-2 he won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for best actor in leading role for his performances in the first three Wingfield plays.
- Sylvia Fedoruk
Sylvia Olga Fedoruk . Born Canora, Saskatchewan May 5, 1927. An excellent academic achiever she established her reputation for achievement in nuclear medical research early in her career. She was instrumental in the development of the first cobalt radiation unit which is now in side use as a chemotherapy treatment for cancer. She was the first woman named to the position of Chancellor at the University of Saskatchewan.
- Thomas Buchanan Read
Thomas Buchanan Read (1822 - 1872), American poet, was a portrait-painter, and lived much abroad. He wrote a prose romance, "The Pilgrims of the Great St. Bernard", and several books of poetry, including "The New Pastoral", "The House by the Sea", "Sylvia", and "A Summer Story". Some of the shorter pieces included in these, e.g., "Sheridan's Ride," "Drifting," and "The Closing Scene," have great merit.
- Sylvia Sackville Countess De La Warr
Sylvia Sackville, Countess De La Warr DBE (1904 - 10 June 1992) was a distinguished public servant and a former Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party (1951-1954). She was born as Sylvia Mary Harrison in 1904, the second daughter of William Reginald Harrison of Liverpool. Her brother was the actor Sir Rex Harrison. She was married twice: * 1) David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir (1925 - 1967), by whom she had two daughters.
- Sylvia Ashton-Warner
- Sylvia Hermon
Sylvia Hermon was educated at Dungannon High School for Girls, and Aberstwyth University, Wales, from where she graduated in 1977 with a first class honours degree in Law. After completing her Part II Solicitors' Qualifying Examinations in 1978 she took up a lecturing post at Queen's University Belfast in European, International and Constitutional law (1978-88).
- Sylvia Browne
Most assuredly you've heard the phrase "innocent until proven guilty." I'm pretty much a believer in that saying. Our legal system is built around it -- and justifiably so. But what if an alleged psychic makes three promises on international television to test her extraordinary claims, yet makes no effort to do so? Should the phrase for that person become "guilty until proven innocent?"
- Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Sylvia Ann Hewlett, PhD Founder and President Center for Work-Life Policy
- Abe Sylvia
- Abe Sylvia
- Walter Sylvia
- Gabriella Zignani
- Ramos Sylvia
- Scott Sylvia
- Sunyovszky Sylvia
- Dawn De Sylvia