Sylvia

People

Sylvia (singer) (born 1956), American country singer born Sylvia Jane Kirby

Sylvia Anderson (1927–2016), British voice artist and film producer

Sylvia Ashby (1908–1978), Australian market-researcher

Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1908–1984), New Zealand writer, poet and educator

Sylvia Beach (1887–1962), American-born bookseller and publisher

Sylvia Bermann (1922–2012), Argentine psychiatrist, public health specialist, essayist, and montenero

Sylvia Browne (1936–2013), American psychic

Sylvia Chang (born 1953), Taiwanese actress, producer and director

Sylvia Chase (1938–2019), American broadcast journalist

Sylvia Coleman, American health journalist, author, speaker and expert in sexual abuse prevention

Sylvia Constantinidis (born 1962), Venezuelan-American pianist, conductor and composer

Sylvia Crawley (born 1972), American basketball player

Sylvia Day (born 1973), American romance writer

Sylvia Earle (born 1935), American oceanographer and aquanaut

Sylvia Martínez Elizondo (1947–2020), Mexican politician

Sylvia Esterby, Canadian statistician

Sylvia Fernando (1904–1983), Sri Lankan educator and family planning advocate

Sylvia Gale (1950– 2020), American activist and politician

Sylvia Gray (1909–1991), English businessperson

Sylvia Gyde (1936–2024), British public health doctor and medical researcher

Sylwia Gruchała (born 1981), Polish fencer

Sylvia Hanika (born 1959), German tennis player

Sylvia La Torre (1933–2022), Filipina singer and actress

Sylvia Laughter (1950s-2022), American politician

Sylvia Likens (1949–1965), American murder victim

Sylvia Marsters (born 1962), New Zealand and Cook Islands artist

Sylvia McNair (born 1956), American singer

Sylvia Meagher, World Health Organization analyst who devoted the last decades of her life to researching and writing about the JFK assassination.

Sylvia Mendez (born 1936), American civil rights activist

Sylvia Michel (footballer) (born 1972), German footballer

Sylvia Michel (minister) (1935–2025), Swiss Reformed Church minister

Sylvia Mitchell (born 1937), Australian long jumper

Sylvia Molloy (writer) (1938–2022), Argentine academic and writer

Sylvia Namutebi, Uganda beauty pageant titleholder

Sylvia Pankhurst (1882–1960), British suffragette and Marxist

Sylvia Pedlar (1900–1972), American lingerie designer

Sylvia Pille-Steppat (born 1967), German adaptive rower

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963), American confessional poet

Sylvia Poggioli (born 1946), Radio news anchor

Sylvia Ratonel (born 1988), Singaporean singer and spokesmodel

Sylvia Rivera (1951–2002), American transgender activist

Sylvia Robinson (1935–2011), American rhythm & blues singer, member of Mickey & Sylvia, and record label executive

Sylvia Ruuska (1942–2019), American medley and freestyle swimmer

Sylvia Sanchez, (born 1971 as Josette Campo), Filipino actress

Sylvia Schofield (1916–2006), British writer and traveller

Sylvia Siddell (1941–2011), New Zealand artist

Sylvia Sidney (1910–1999), American actress

Sylvia Sleigh (1916–2010), Welsh-American painter

Sylvia Steinbrecht (born 1977) Andorran artistic film director and production designer

Sylvia Syms (1934–2023), English actress

Sylvia Thalberg (1907–1988), American screenwriter

Sylvia Tyson (born 1940), Canadian musician, performer, singer-songwriter and broadcaster

Sylvie Vartan (born 1944), Bulgarian-French singer and actress

Sylvia Vrethammar (born 1945), Swedish singer

Sylvia Wene (1928–2013), American ten-pin bowler

Sylvia Weve (born 1954), Dutch illustrator

Sylvia Whitman (born 1981), Anglo-French bookseller

Fictional characters

Sylvia, the character played by Anita Ekberg in the Italian film La Dolce Vita (1960)

Sylvia, the character voiced by Kristen Johnston in the American animated film Ice Age (2002)

Sylvia, character in the animated series Wander Over Yonder

Sylvia, the protagonist in the short story A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett

Sylvia Costas, Assistant District Attorney in the American television drama NYPD Blue

Sylvia Fine, the character played by Renee Taylor in the television series The Nanny

Sylvia Goodwin, the mother of Roy Cropper in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street

Sylvia Hollamby Character in the ITV prison drama Bad Girls (TV series) played by Helen Fraser

Sylvia Lyyneheym, a character in the light novel and anime of The Asterisk War

Sylvia Noble, a character from British science fiction TV series Doctor Who

Sylvia Rosen, a neighbor who is friendly with Don and Megan Draper in Mad Men (season 6)