Silliman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *

Aldine Silliman Kieffer Aldine Silliman Kieffer (August 1, 1840 – November 30, 1904) was a leading 19th century proponent of shape note musical notation, music teacher and publisher. Kieffer was born near Miami, Saline County, Missouri. He died in Dayton, Virgin ...

(1840–1904), American musician * Benjamin Silliman (1779–1864), American chemist *

Benjamin Silliman Jr. Benjamin Silliman Jr. (December 4, 1816 – January 14, 1885) was a professor of chemistry at Yale University and instrumental in developing the oil industry. His father Benjamin Silliman Sr., also a famous Yale chemist, developed the process of ...

(1816–1885), American chemist *

Benjamin D. Silliman Benjamin Douglas Silliman (September 14, 1805 – January 24, 1901) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. Life Silliman was born on September 14, 1805, in Newport, Rhode Island, son of Gold Selleck Silliman and Hepsa Ely. His pa ...

(1805–1901), American lawyer and politician *

Gold Selleck Silliman Gold Selleck Silliman (1732–1790) was a Connecticut militia General during the American War for Independence. Biography Silliman was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, graduated from Yale University and practiced law and served as a crown attorney ...

(1732–1790), American attorney and Revolutionary War figure * Horace Brinsmade Silliman (1825-1910), founder of Silliman University *

Jael Silliman Jael Silliman is an author, scholar, and women’s right activist. She currently works as a consultant on gender and development, women of color and reproductive rights, and gender and environment issues. She lives in New York City and Calcutta. She ...

, American writer *

Randolph Silliman Bourne Randolph Silliman Bourne (; May 30, 1886 – December 22, 1918) was a progressive writer and intellectual born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and a graduate of Columbia University. He is considered to be a spokesman for the young radicals living du ...

(1886–1918), American writer *

Robert Hillyer Robert Silliman Hillyer (June 3, 1895 – December 24, 1961) was an American poet and professor of English literature. He won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1934. Early life Hillyer was born in East Orange, New Jersey to an old Connecticut fa ...

aka Robert Silliman Hillyer (1895–1961), American poet * Ron Silliman (born 1946), American poet

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