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Silvia Saint
Silvia Saint (Silvie Tomčalová, born 1976, Kyjov) is a Czech former pornographic actress, 1996 Czech Penthouse Pet, 1997 Best Newcomer winner, Uranus Experiment freefall scene, AVN Hall of Fame 2012.
Silvia Salis
Silvia Salis is an Italian politician and former hammer thrower who has been Mayor of Genoa since 2025, elected at the head of a center-left coalition.
Silvia Sperber
Silvia Sperber (Sperber-Seiderer), born 1965 in Erpfting, German sports shooter; 1988 Seoul Olympic gold in small-bore rifle three positions and silver in air rifle; 1983/1984 air rifle team world champion.
Silvia Stroescu
Silvia Stroescu (Silvia Alexandra Stroescu, born 1985, Bucharest) is a Romanian artistic gymnast, 2004 Athens Olympic team gold medalist, 2001 world and 2004 European team champion; later a FIG judge and researcher.
Silvia Vignolini
Silvia Vignolini, born 1981, is an Italian physicist who studies bio-inspired structural color and directs the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam.
Silvia Zane
Silvia Zane is an astrophysicist and Professor of Astrophysics at University College London's Mullard Space Science Laboratory, where she has led the Astronomy Group since 2022.
Silvicultural system
A silvicultural system is a planned, rotation-long series of treatments for tending, harvesting, and regenerating a forest stand, combining a regeneration method with intermediate treatments.
Silviculture
Silviculture is the science of controlling forest establishment, growth, composition, and health. Covers even-aged (clearcut, shelterwood, seed-tree) versus uneven-aged (selection) systems, their biodiversity, economic, and carbon trade-offs.
Silvina Bullrich
Silvina Bullrich (1915–1990) was an Argentine novelist, translator, journalist, and screenwriter; her bestseller Los burgueses (1964) sold over 60,000 copies, and she also translated Simone de Beauvoir.
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.