Sylvain is the
French form of
Silvanus. It may refer to:
People
*Sylvain Archambault, Canadian director
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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 Sai ...
(1965–2011), French footballer and manager
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Sylvain Cappell (born 1946), American mathematician
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Sylvain Chavanel (born 1979), French cyclist
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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 ...
(born 1963), French animator
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Sylvain Cossette (born 1963), Canadian pop vocalist
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Sylvain Côté (born 1966), Canadian former ice hockey player
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Sylvain Cros (born 1980), French freestyle swimmer
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Sylvain Distin (born 1977), French footballer
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Sylvan Ebanks-Blake
Sylvan Augustus Ebanks-Blake (born 29 March 1986) is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker.
He played youth team football for Cambridge United and Manchester United before making his professional debut in 2004. A sp ...
(born 1986), British footballer
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Sylvain Eugène Raynal (1867–1939), French army officer
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Sylvain Estibal
Sylvain Estibal (born 13 March 1967) is a French reporter, author and film director.
The film '' The Last Flight'' was based on Estibal's 2006 book. He directed the film '' When Pigs Have Wings'' for which he was awarded the César Award for Best ...
(born 1967), French journalist, writer, and film director
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Sylvain Garel (born 1956), French politician and human-rights activist
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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 ...
(born 1977), Canadian wrestler
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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 ...
(born 1982), French motorcycle racer
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Sylvain Arend (1902–1992), Belgian astronomer
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Sylvain Lefebvre
Sylvain Jean Lefebvre (born October 14, 1967) is a Canadian former ice hockey defenceman who played on five National Hockey League teams from 1989 to 2003. He won the Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche in 1996. Lefebvre was most recently an a ...
(born 1967), former NHL player
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Sylvain Légaré
Sylvain Légaré (born October 22, 1970) is a politician in Quebec, Canada. He was an Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ) Member of the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA) for the Vanier riding from 2004 to 2008.
Born in Quebec City, Quebec, ...
(born 1970), Canadian politician
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Sylvain Longchambon (born 1980), French ice dancer
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Sylvain Maréchal (1750–1803), French essayist
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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. (born 1973), Canadian science fiction author
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Sylvain Remy
Sylvain Remy (born 15 November 1980) is a former Beninese football player, who last played for Clermont.
International career
He was part of the Beninese 2004 African Nations Cup
The 2004 African Cup of Nations, known as the NOKIA African Cup ...
(born 1980), Beninese footballer
*Sylvain Richard (born 1979), French rapper, disc jockey, and producer known as
20syl
Sylvain Richard (born 17 February 1979), better known by his stage name 20syl (pronounced "vain-seel", ), is a French rapper, disc jockey and producer. He is a composer and MC in the group Hocus Pocus, member of beatmaker collective of DJs C2 ...
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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 ...
(born 1951), guitarist
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Sylvain Templier
Sylvain Templier (born 27 December 1971) is a French nurse and politician who has been Member of Parliament for Haute-Marne's 1st constituency
The 1st constituency of the Haute-Marne is a French legislative constituency in the Haute-Marne ...
(born 1971), French politician
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Sylvain Turgeon
Joseph Sylvain Dorilla Turgeon (born January 17, 1965) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played 669 games in the National Hockey League (NHL).
Playing career
Turgeon was drafted by the Hartford Whalers in the 1983 NHL En ...
(born 1965), Canadian former NHL player
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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 ...
(born 1974), French footballer
Fictional Characters
*Sylvain Jose Gautier, a fictional character from the video games ''
Fire Emblem: Three Houses'' and ''
Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes''
See also
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Silvain (disambiguation) Silvain may refer to:
* ''Silvain'' (opera), an opera by André Ernest Modeste Grétry
* Silvain of Ahun, French martyr and saint
* 15899 Silvain, an asteroid
People with the surname
* Eugène Silvain (1851–1930), French actor
*Pierre Silvain ( ...
, variant spelling
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Saint-Sylvain (disambiguation) Saint-Sylvain may refer to several communes in France:
*Saint Sylvain, Calvados, in the Calvados ''département''
*Saint-Sylvain, Corrèze, in the Corrèze ''département''
*Saint-Sylvain, Seine-Maritime, in the Seine-Maritime ''département''
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Sylvan (disambiguation)
Sylvan or Sylvans (from the Latin ''silva'': "forest, woods") may refer to:
Places
United States
* Sylvan, Illinois, a former settlement
* Sylvan, Wisconsin, a town
** Sylvan (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated area in the town
* Sylvan ...
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