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Sylvain
Sylvain is the French form of Silvanus. It may refer to: People *Sylvain Archambault, Canadian director *Sylvain Bied (1965–2011), French footballer and manager *Sylvain Cappell (born 1946), American mathematician *Sylvain Chavanel (born 1979), French cyclist *Sylvain Chomet (born 1963), French animator *Sylvain Cossette (born 1963), Canadian pop vocalist *Sylvain Côté (born 1966), Canadian former ice hockey player * Sylvain Cros (born 1980), French freestyle swimmer *Sylvain Distin (born 1977), French footballer *Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (born 1986), British footballer *Sylvain Eugène Raynal (1867–1939), French army officer *Sylvain Estibal (born 1967), French journalist, writer, and film director * Sylvain Garel (born 1956), French politician and human-rights activist *Sylvain Grenier (born 1977), Canadian wrestler *Sylvain Guintoli (born 1982), French motorcycle racer *Sylvain Arend (1902–1992), Belgian astronomer *Sylvain Lefebvre (born 1967), former NHL player *Sylvain Là ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvain Sylvain
Sylvain Mizrahi (February 14, 1951 – January 13, 2021), known professionally as Sylvain Sylvain, was an American rock guitarist, most notable for being a member of the New York Dolls. Early years Sylvain was born in Cairo, Egypt, to a Jewish family, but his family fled in the 1950s, first to France and finally to New York, United States. The Mizrahis lived first on Lafayette Avenue in Buffalo, New York, but later moved to the New York City neighborhood of Rego Park, Queens, while he was still a child. Sylvain had dyslexia. He attended Newtown High School in Queens and Quintano's School for Young Professionals in Manhattan. Prior to joining the New York Dolls, Sylvain and future New York Doll bandmate Billy Murcia ran a clothing company called "Truth and Soul," which helped define his fashion sense and would play a role in the band's groundbreaking look. He had one brother, Leon (deceased), and one sister, Brigitte. Career Before joining the New York Dolls in 1971, Sylvain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvain Wiltord
Sylvain Claude Wiltord (born 10 May 1974) is a French former professional footballer. Mainly a right winger, he also played as a centre-forward, second striker and on the left wing. Wiltord had a four-season spell at Arsenal, with whom he won two Premier League titles and two FA Cups. He also won the Ligue 1 title at Bordeaux and in each of his three consecutive seasons at Lyon. With the France national team, Wiltord earned 92 caps and scored 26 goals. He played at the 1996 Olympics, two FIFA World Cups and two UEFA European Championships. Wiltord was part of the teams which won Euro 2000 (for which he scored a last minute equaliser to take the final to extra time) and reached the final of the 2006 World Cup. Club career Early career, Rennes and Bordeaux Wiltord joined Rennes from lower-league side CO Joinville in 1991. At Rennes, he emerged in the 1993–94 season with eight goals in 26 games. In summer 1996, after Wiltord's excelled for France at the 1996 Summer Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvain Chomet
Sylvain Chomet (; born 10 November 1963) is a French comic writer, animator and film director. Early career Born in Maisons-Laffitte, Seine-et-Oise (now Yvelines), near Paris, he studied art at high school until he graduated in 1982. Chomet moved to London in 1988 to work as an animator at the Richard Purdum studio. In September of that year, he established a freelance practice, working on commercials for clients such as Principality, Renault, Swinton and Swissair. In addition to his animation career, Chomet has created many print comics, starting in 1986 with ''Secrets of the Dragonfly.'' In 1992 Chomet wrote the script for a science fiction comic called ''The Bridge in Mud''. 1993 saw Chomet writing the story for ''Léon-la-Came'', which was drawn by Nicolas de Crécy for ''À Suivre'' magazine. This was published in 1995 and won the René Goscinny Prize in 1996. In 1997, Chomet published ''Ugly, Poor, and Sick'', again with de Crécy. This won them the Alph-Art Best Comi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvain Grenier
Sylvain Grenier (born March 26, 1977) is a Canadian TV host and semi-retired professional wrestler. He has been signed to WWE as a producer since 2020. He is best known for his time wrestling for WWE between 2002 and 2007 where he was part of La Résistance and became a four-time World Tag Team Champion (once with René Duprée and three times with Rob Conway). After his release from WWE, Grenier became a French language commentator for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) '' Impact!'' for a number of years and continued to wrestle on the Quebec independent circuit. Early life As a child, Grenier lived with his Parents in Varennes, Quebec. Grenier played baseball, tennis and hockey at an amateur level. Grenier worked as a model. Professional wrestling career Grenier made his professional wrestling debut in 1998. World Wrestling Entertainment Early appearances (2001–2003) Grenier auditioned for series one and two of '' Tough Enough'', the reality television program produce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvain Chavanel
Sylvain Chavanel''Procycling'', UK, November 2008 (born 30 June 1979) is a French former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2000 and 2018 for the , , and two spells with the / team. His brother Sébastien Chavanel also rode as a professional cyclist. Sylvain Chavanel was noted as a strong all-rounder who won both sprints and time-trials, and was a good northern classics rider, taking 45 wins during his professional career. Background Chavanel was born in Châtellerault, France, although his family roots are in Spain. His great-grandparents were from Huesca, in the Aragon region. His grandfather was born in Barcelona and moved to Châtellerault during the Spanish Civil War. Other members of the family still live in Aragon. He said: "Last year 007 when the Vuelta was in Zaragoza, I got to know the cousin of mine using a journalist as the translator and she gave me a picture of my grandfather when he was young. Despite my origins, I hardly know a wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvain Distin
Sylvain Distin (born 16 December 1977) is a French former professional footballer. He is left-footed and played as a central defender, and was also capable of playing at left-back. Distin began his career playing for French amateur sides, working his way up to professional sides Gueugnon and subsequently Paris Saint-Germain. He moved to England in 2001, first joining Newcastle United on a loan move from PSG, before signing a permanent contract with Manchester City, where he spent five seasons. He then spent two years at Portsmouth where he won the FA Cup, before joining Everton in 2009. In six seasons at Goodison Park, he made 210 appearances across all competitions, leaving in 2015 for AFC Bournemouth. After one season with Bournemouth, Distin was released when his contract expired in June 2016. He played fifteen consecutive seasons in the Premier League, with over 450 appearances in England's top flight – the most of any foreign outfield player. Club career Early caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvain Maréchal
Sylvain Maréchal (15 August 1750 – 18 January 1803) was a French essayist, poet, philosopher and political theorist, whose views presaged utopian socialism and communism. His views on a future golden age are occasionally described as ''utopian anarchism''. He was editor of the newspaper . Early life Born in Paris as the son of a wine merchant, he studied jurisprudence and became a lawyer in the capital. At the age of 20, he published , a collection of idylls, successful enough to ensure his employment at the Collège Mazirin as an aide-librarian. Maréchal was an admirer of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, Claude Adrien Helvétius, and Denis Diderot, and associated with deist and atheist authors. Vision He developed his own views of an agrarian socialism where all goods would be shared. In ("Fragments of a Moral Poem on God"), he aimed to replace elements of practiced religion with a cult of Virtue and faith with Reason (''see Cult of Reason''). His critique of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvain Garel
Sylvain Garel (born 1956) is a French Green politician. Early life Garel was born in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. He has a master's degree in Contemporary History and specializes in Film History. He entered politics at age 17, in the Ecologist movement, after campaigning for René Dumont who was the first French ecologist to run for president. He joined the Green Party in 1989. He trained as a teacher and works as a historian and film critic. Career Garel founded a festival for Cinema of Quebec in France in 1991, over which he presided for six years. As a member of Critic's week, he attends the Cannes Festival. He was the vice-president of the French Trade Union for Cinema Critics. An ardent anti-fascist, Garel in the early 1990s cofounded " Ras l'Front", a French network fighting racialism and white supremacy. Garel is a Paris city councillor. He ran for Europe Écologie–The Greens in 2001. He is a former president of the Greens group, who deployed a banner in sup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvain Guintoli
Sylvain Guintoli (born 24 June 1982 in Montélimar) is a French professional motorcycle racer. He was FIM World Superbike Champion in 2014. He is contracted to the Suzuki MotoGP team as a test rider with occasional race entries, as a wild card or replacement rider. In 2017, he competed in the British Superbike Championship with the new Suzuki GSX-R1000. He spent the early years of his career in 250cc Grand-Prix World Championship on private bikes. He was a 500cc 2 stroke test rider for Yamaha and made a single MotoGP start in 2002. Best MotoGP rookie in 2007 for Yamaha, he raced for Ducati MotoGP in 2008. After a serious leg injury in 2009, he recovered and became World Superbike Champion in 2014 for Aprilia. In 2021 he was the winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race on Suzuki together with Xavier Simeon and Gregg Black, followed by the Bol d'Or and finally the Championship. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvain Cappell
Sylvain Edward Cappell (born 1946), is a Belgian American mathematician and former student of William Browder at Princeton University, is a topologist who has spent most of his career at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU, where he is now the Silver Professor of Mathematics. He was born in Brussels, Belgium and immigrated with his parents to New York City in 1950 and grew up largely in this city. In 1963, as a senior at the Bronx High School of Science, he won first place in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search for his work on "The Theory of Semi-cyclical Groups with Special Reference to Non-Aristotelian Logic." He then graduated from Columbia University in 1966, winning the Van Amringe Mathematical Prize. He is best known for his "codimension one splitting theorem", which is a standard tool in high-dimensional geometric topology, and a number of important results proven with his collaborator Julius Shaneson (now at the University of Pennsylvania). Their wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvain Neuvel
Sylvain Neuvel is a Canadian science fiction writer, known as the author of ''The Themis Files.'' He was born in Quebec City and raised in the suburb of L'Ancienne-Lorette."Sylvain Neuvel's buzzed-about debut novel asks age-old sci-fi question: Is there anybody out there?" '''', May 6, 2016. Neuvel was educated at the and the |
Sylvain Bied
Sylvain Bied (26 February 1965 – 18 February 2011) was a French professional Association football, football player and manager. He played as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper. Playing career Bied was a product of the Paris Saint-Germain F.C., Paris Saint-Germain Paris Saint-Germain Youth Academy, youth academy. He was the third choice Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper of the first team during the 1984–85 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, 1984–85 season, while integrating the squad at the age of 19. On 26 March 1985, Bied played his first and only match for PSG, a 4–2 league loss to RC Lens, Lens. He conceded the opening goal of the match in the first 84 seconds of play. Bied left PSG in the summer of 1985 to join Valenciennes FC, Valenciennes. He went on to play for Amiens SC, Amiens, :fr:Melun Football Club, Melun, US Orléans, Orléans, Dijon FCO, Dijon, Angers SCO, Angers, and Saint-Pryvé Saint-Hilaire FC, Saint-Pryvé Saint-Hilaire before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
