Sylvester or Silvester is a given name and a surname.
Sylvester may also refer to:
Film
edit- Sylvester (film), a 1985 film starring Richard Farnsworth
- New Year's Eve (1924 film) or Sylvester, a 1924 German film by Lupu Pick
People
edit- Pope Sylvester I (died 335), Saint Sylvester
- Pope Sylvester II (c. 946–1003)
- Pope Sylvester III (died 1062 or 1063)
- Sylvester of Marsico (c. 1100-1162), Count of Marsico in the Kingdom of Sicily
- Sylvester of Kiev (c. 1055–1123), clergyman and writer in Kievan Rus
- Antipope Sylvester IV, a claimant from 1105 to 1111
- Sylvester of Assisi (died 1240), companion of Saint Francis of Assisi
- Sylvester of Worcester, early 13th-century Bishop of Worcester
- Sylvester (priest), 15th-century priest of the Cathedral of the Annunciation and close advisor to Ivan IV
- Sylvester of Antioch, 18th-century Greek bishop
- Sylvester (singer)
- Sylvester Stallone (actor)
Places
edit- Lake Sylvester System, Australia
- Sylvester, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Mount Sylvester, Canada
- Sylvester, Georgia, U.S.
- Sylvester, Texas, U.S.
- Sylvester, West Virginia, U.S.
- Sylvester, Wisconsin, U.S.
- St. Silvester, Fribourg, Switzerland
Other uses
edit- Sylvester's criterion, to determine whether a Hermitian matrix is positive-definite.
- Sylvester (crater), a crater on the Moon
- Sylvester the Cat, a Looney Tunes character
- Euploea sylvester, a butterfly species
- Sylvester, a donkey in the children's book Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
- Sylvester, a device for safely removing pit props in mines, invented by Walter Sylvester
- Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle, a novel by Georgette Heyer