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Silvina Ocampo
Silvina Ocampo (1903–1993) was an Argentine writer of fantastic short stories and poetry, co-editor with Borges and Bioy Casares of the 1940 Antología de la literatura fantástica.
Silvio Aime
Silvio Aime is an Italian chemist, professor emeritus at the University of Turin, who developed lanthanide-based MRI contrast agents, CEST probes, and hyperpolarized agents for molecular imaging.
Silvio Antoniano
Silvio Antoniano (1540–1603) was an Italian cardinal, papal secretary under Clement VIII, and writer on education whose 1584 treatise earned him the name educator of the Counter-Reformation.
Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi (1936–2023), Italian media tycoon and founder of Forza Italia, served four times as prime minister (1994–95, 2001–06, 2008–11), built Mediaset and Fininvest, and was definitively convicted only of Mediaset tax fraud in 2013.
Silvio C. E. Tosatto
Silvio C. E. Tosatto is an Italian computational biologist, Full Professor of Bioinformatics at the University of Padua, who heads the BioComputing UP laboratory studying protein intrinsic disorder.
Silvio Danese
Silvio Danese is an Italian gastroenterologist and inflammatory bowel disease researcher, professor and gastroenterology head at San Raffaele in Milan, and president of the European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation from 2018 to 2020.
Silvio Dante
Silvio Dante (Silvio Manfred Dante) is the consigliere to Tony Soprano and Bada-Bing club owner in HBO's The Sopranos, played by Steven Van Zandt in a role David Chase wrote for him after HBO blocked his casting as Tony.
Silvio E. Inzucchi
Silvio E. Inzucchi is an American endocrinologist and diabetes researcher at Yale School of Medicine, where he directs the Yale Diabetes Center and studies diabetes drugs and heart disease.
Silvio Erkens
Silvio Erkens (born 1990) is a Dutch VVD politician, a member of the House of Representatives since 2021 and State Secretary for Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Nature since 2026.
Silvio Fauner
Silvio Fauner, born 1968 in Pieve di Cadore, is an Italian cross-country skier, Olympic 4x10 km relay champion at Lillehammer 1994 and 50 km world champion 1995, later national team coach and Sappada deputy mayor.
Silvio Garattini
Silvio Garattini is an Italian pharmacologist born in Bergamo in 1928 who founded the Mario Negri Institute in Milan in 1963 and directed it for 55 years.
Silvio Leonard
Silvio Leonard Sarría (born 1955, Cienfuegos), Cuban sprinter; 1980 Olympic 100m silver (10.25, photo behind Allan Wells), Pan Am 100m gold 1975 and 1979, Cuban record 9.98 (1977).
Silvio Martinello
Silvio Martinello, born 1963 in Padua, is an Italian former racing cyclist who won Olympic points race gold at Atlanta 1996 and five world track titles.
Silvio Micali
Silvio Micali, born in Palermo, Italy in 1954, is an MIT computer scientist known for co-inventing zero-knowledge proofs and probabilistic encryption and for winning the 2012 Turing Award.
Silvio Pettirossi International Airport
Silvio Pettirossi International Airport (Aeropuerto Internacional Silvio Pettirossi) is Paraguay's principal international airport, located in Luque about 15 km from central Asunción and serving as the hub for LATAM Paraguay and Paranair.
Silvio Piola
Silvio Piola (1913-1996), Italian striker, all-time Serie A top scorer with 274 goals in 537 games for Pro Vercelli, Lazio, Juventus, and Novara; 1938 World Cup winner who scored twice in the final against Hungary.
Silvio Rodríguez
Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez (born 1946, San Antonio de los Baños) is a Cuban singer-songwriter, founder of Nueva Trova with Pablo Milanés and Noel Nicola, composer of "Ojalá", "Playa Girón", "La maza", and "Unicornio".
Sílvio Romero
Sílvio Romero (1851–1914) was a Brazilian literary critic, folklorist, and historian of literature, a founder of Brazilian literary criticism and a founding member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
Silvio Santos
Silvio Santos, stage name of Senor Abravanel (1930–2024), Brazilian TV host and entrepreneur, founder-owner of the SBT network and Grupo Silvio Santos, host of Programa Silvio Santos.
Silvio Savarese
Silvio Savarese is an Italian computer scientist who serves as Chief Scientist of Salesforce AI Research and is an adjunct professor of computer science at Stanford University.
Silvio Scaglia
Silvio Scaglia, also known as Silvio Scaglia Haart, is an Italian telecommunications entrepreneur who co-founded Fastweb in 1999, led Omnitel, and later built La Perla and Elite World.
Silvio Schembri
Silvio Schembri is a Maltese politician serving as Minister for the Economy, Technology and Strategic Projects, leading economic policy, investment attraction, and technology, and announcing Malta's largest foreign direct investment.
Silviu Itescu
Silviu Itescu is a physician-scientist in transplant immunology and stem-cell medicine who described diffuse infiltrative lymphocytosis syndrome in HIV in 1989 and leads the Australian cell-therapy company Mesoblast.
Silvius (crater on Dione)
Silvius is a 74 km diameter impact crater on Saturn's moon Dione at 32.70° S, 332.26° W, IAU-approved March 17, 2008 and named for the son of Aeneas and Lavinia; its walls in the Wispy Terrain are crosscut by putative tectonic faults.
Silvr
Silvr was a Paris-based French fintech founded in 2020 by Nima Karimi and Grégory Tappero that provided revenue-based financing to e-commerce and digital businesses; it entered judicial restructuring in 2025.
Silwa Bahari
Silwa Bahari is a place in the Aswan region of Upper Egypt, known for previously unrecorded rock art discovered in Wadi Silwa Bahari in 2008.
Silwan necropolis
The Silwan necropolis is an Iron Age rock-cut cemetery in Jerusalem, on the cliff opposite the City of David, dating from the 9th to the mid-7th century BC.
Silybum
Silybum (milk thistle genus), two Asteraceae thistle species including Silybum marianum, Mediterranean-native medicinal herb source of silymarin, naturalized worldwide and used for liver remedies for over 2000 years.
Silybum marianum
Silybum marianum (milk thistle, Mary thistle, holy thistle) is a Mediterranean Asteraceae herb, 1-2 m tall with purple flower heads, whose seed extract silymarin is a widely used but clinically unproven liver supplement.
Silyl ether protecting groups
Silyl ether protecting groups are trialkylsilyl substituents that mask alcohol hydroxyls during organic synthesis; TBS is the most widely used, and fluoride ion removes them cleanly.