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Sylvia Browne
Sylvia Browne, born Sylvia Shoemaker (1936–2013), was an American psychic, trance medium, and author who founded the Gnostic Christian Society of Novus Spiritus in 1986.
Sylvia Burka
Sylvia Burka (Burka-Lovell), born 1954 in Winnipeg, is a Canadian long track speed skater and cyclist; three-time Olympian, 1976 world allround and 1977 world sprint champion, first to win both world titles, later 12 national cycling sprint titles.
Sylvia Cheeseman
Sylvia Cheeseman (Sylvia Cheeseman-Disley), born 19 May 1929, British sprinter; 1952 Olympic 4x100m relay bronze, 1948 and 1952 Olympic 200m semifinalist, six British 200m titles 1946-1952; wife of John Disley.
Sylvia curruca
Sylvia curruca, the Lesser Whitethroat (Curruca curruca, 白喉林莺), is a small Palearctic Sylviidae warbler, a full migrant wintering in Africa, Arabia and India; Least Concern with 27.9-47.7 million mature individuals and six debated subspecies.
Sylvia Earle
Sylvia Earle (Sylvia Alice Earle) is an American marine biologist, oceanographer, and aquanaut who in 1990 became the first woman to serve as NOAA's chief scientist.
Sylvia family
The Sylvia family is a group of asteroids in the outer main belt's Cybele region, thought to originate from the large asteroid (87) Sylvia and identified in 2006.
Sylvia Fine
Sylvia Fine (1913–1991), American lyricist, composer, and producer, wife of Danny Kaye; wrote "Anatole of Paris" and songs for The Inspector General and The Five Pennies, and won a Peabody Award for Musical Comedy Tonight.
Sylvia Fowles
Sylvia Fowles (Sylvia Shaqueria Fowles), born 1985 in Miami, is a retired WNBA center (Chicago Sky, Minnesota Lynx), 2017 MVP, two-time champion and Finals MVP, four-time Defensive Player of the Year, four-time Olympic gold medalist, and the league's all-time leading rebounder.
Sylvia Garcia
Sylvia R. Garcia, born 1950, is an American Democratic politician representing Texas's 29th congressional district in the U.S. House since 2019, after serving as a Texas state senator, Harris County commissioner, and Houston City Controller.
Sylvia Gerasch
Sylvia Gerasch, born 1969 in Cottbus, East German and German breaststroke swimmer; 1986 world champion 100 m breaststroke (WR 1:08.11) and medley relay; banned 1993-96 for caffeine doping; swam at Sydney 2000.
Sylvia Hoeks
Sylvia Hoeks (Sylvia Gertrudis Martyna Hoeks), Dutch actress born 1983 in Maarheeze, known for Luv in Blade Runner 2049, Queen Kane in See, a 2007 Golden Calf for Duska, and upcoming Lords of War.
Sylvia Kristel
Sylvia Maria Kristel (1952–2012), Dutch actress famous as the title role of Emmanuelle (1974); over fifty films, Hollywood years, later painter and memoirist; died of cancer in Amsterdam.
Sylvia Luke
Sylvia Luke is an American Democratic politician serving as the 16th Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii, elected in 2022 after 24 years in the Hawaiʻi State House chairing its Finance Committee.
Sylvia Miles
Sylvia Miles (1924–2019), American character actress born Sylvia Scheinwald, earned two Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominations for brief roles in Midnight Cowboy and Farewell, My Lovely, and was a famed Manhattan partygoer.
Sylvia Pankhurst
Sylvia Pankhurst (Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst, 1882–1960), British suffragette, artist, socialist, and anti-fascist; WSPU designer, East London Federation founder, pacifist, later Ethiopia campaigner who died in Addis Ababa.
Sylvia Plachy
Sylvia Plachy, Hungarian-born American photographer (born 1943, Budapest), Village Voice staff photographer and creator of the captionless weekly column Unguided Tour; Guggenheim fellow, author of Self Portrait with Cows Going Home, mother of Adrien Brody.
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963), American confessional poet and novelist, author of The Colossus, The Bell Jar, and posthumous Ariel; married Ted Hughes, died by suicide at 30, won a posthumous Pulitzer.
Sylvia Rivera
Sylvia Rae Rivera (1951–2002) was an American gay liberation and transgender rights activist who said she took part in the 1969 Stonewall uprising and co-founded STAR to shelter homeless queer youth.
Sylvia Robinson
Sylvia Robinson (1936–2011), American singer, producer, and co-founder of Sugar Hill Records; produced "Rapper's Delight" (1979) and "The Message" (1982), launching recorded hip-hop commercially.
Sylvia Rose
Sylvia Rose (Sylvia Müller), born 1962 in Barth, Germany, is an East German rowing cox who won Olympic gold in the women's coxed fours at Seoul 1988 and World Championship silvers in 1986 and 1987.
Sylvia Ruuska
Sylvia Eliina Ruuska (1942-2019), American swimmer; 1956 Olympic bronze 400 m freestyle and silver 4x100 m freestyle relay at age 14; 1960 Rome team captain; five world medley records.
Sylvia Santana
Sylvia Santana is an American Democratic politician who has served in the Michigan Senate from the 2nd district, covering Dearborn and parts of Detroit, since her election in November 2018.
Sylvia Scarlett
Sylvia Scarlett is a 1935 RKO comedy-drama directed by George Cukor, the first of four Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant pairings, in which Hepburn disguises herself as a boy; a notorious flop later embraced as a queer cult classic.
Sylvia Sidney
Sylvia Sidney (Sophia Kosow, 1910-1999), American actress of stage and screen; Paramount star of 1930s Depression dramas like Fury and Street Scene, Oscar-nominated for Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams, later in Beetlejuice and Mars Attacks!.
Sylvia Syms
Sylvia Syms (1934–2023) was an English actress known for Ice Cold in Alex (1958), Victim (1961), and Margaret Thatcher in Thatcher: The Final Days, working into her eighties.
Sylvia T. Ceyer
Sylvia T. Ceyer is an American physical chemist at MIT, the John C. Sheehan Professor of Chemistry, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1997.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978), English novelist, poet, and translator; author of Lolly Willowes, Summer Will Show, and Kingdoms of Elfin; Communist Party member, partner of Valentine Ackland, New Yorker short-story writer.
Sylvia Vaughn Thompson
Sylvia Vaughn Sheekman Thompson, American cookbook author (Economy Gastronomy 1963, Feasts and Friends 1988, The Kitchen Garden Cookbook 1995), daughter of actress Gloria Stuart, whose 1977 slow-cooker book was recalled in 1978 over an explosive caramel recipe.
Sylvia Wynter
Sylvia Wynter, born 1928, is a Cuban-born Jamaican novelist, playwright, and cultural theorist known for her critique of Western "Man" and her concept of genres of the human.
Sylvia Young Theatre School
Sylvia Young Theatre School (SYTS), founded 1981 in Drury Lane by Sylvia Young OBE, is an independent co-ed performing arts school in Marylebone, London, with a split week: academics Monday–Wednesday, vocational training Thursday–Friday; alumni include Amy Winehouse, Billie Piper, and Dua Lipa.