Sylvan is a masculine
given name
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Sylvan Adams (born 1958), Israeli-Canadian businessman
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Sylvan Anderton (born 1934), English footballer
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Sylvan Barnet
Sylvan Saul Barnet (December 11, 1926 – January 11, 2016) was an American literary critic and Shakespearean scholar. He was a Fletcher Professor of English Emeritus at Tufts University and the general editor of the Signet Classics Shakespear ...
(born 1926), American literary critic
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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), English footballer
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(1904-1982), American comic strip editor
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Sylvan Edwards (born 1979), English rugby union player
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Sylvan Fox
Sylvan Fox (June 2, 1928 – December 22, 2007) was an American journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize. He worked as a reporter in upstate New York before he came to the New York City-based ''World-Telegram'' newspaper. He wrote one of the first books ...
(1928-2007), American journalist
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Sylvan Friedman (1908–1979), American politician
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Sylvan Goldman (1898-1984), American businessman
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Sylvan Gotshal (1897-1968), American lawyer
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Sylvan Ambrose Hart
Sylvan Ambrose "Buckskin Bill" Hart (May 10, 1906 – April 29, 1980) was among the last of the Mountain man, mountain men in the Western United States.
The oldest of six children born in Camargo, Oklahoma, Camargo in the Indian Territory, one yea ...
(1906-1980), American mountain man
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Sylvan Kalib Sylvan (Sholom) Kalib (born July 24, 1929, Dallas, Texas) is an American music theorist, musicologist, cantor, conductor, pedagogue and composer. His primary work falls broadly into two categories: 1) Schenkerian music theory and 2) the musical tr ...
(born 1929), American music theorist
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Sylvan Levin (1903–1996), American pianist
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Sylvan Muldoon
Sylvan Muldoon (February 18, 1903October 15, 1969) was an American esotericist who promoted the concept of astral projection. According to Muldoon, astral projection is an out-of-body experience (OBE) that assumes the existence of an astral body ...
(1903-1969), American esotericist
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Sylvan Richardson
Sylvan Richardson is a British guitarist, composer, and masseur.
Music
Best known for being the one-time guitarist of Simply Red, after the second album '' Men and Women'' and a successful world tour, Richardson left the band after becoming di ...
(born 1965), British guitarist
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Sylvan Shemitz (1925-2007), American lighting designer
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Sylvan Wittwer (1917-2012), American agronomist
Surname
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Kaj Sylvan
Kaj Sylvan (22 April 1923 – 17 January 2020) was a Danish sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1950s. At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/ Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and mos ...
(born 1923), Danish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1950s
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Per Sylvan
Lieutenant General Per Gustaf Sylvan (23 April 1875 – 19 September 1945) was a Swedish Army officer. He served as Chief of the Army from 1937 to 1940.
Early life
Sylvan was born on 23 April 1875 in Malmö, Sweden, the son of Ph.D. Pe ...
(1875-1945), Swedish Army lieutenant general
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Richard Sylvan (1935-1996), Australian logician and environmentalist also known as Richard Routley
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Sanford Sylvan
Sanford Sylvan (December 19, 1953 – January 29, 2019) was an American baritone.
Biography
Sanford Mead Sylvan was born in New York City on December 19, 1953, and grew up in Syosset, New York. Starting at age 13 he participated in the Juillia ...
, American operatic baritone
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Torsten Sylvan (1895–1970), Swedish equestrian who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics
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S. Sylvan Simon
S. Sylvan Simon (March 9, 1910 – May 17, 1951) was an American stage/film director and producer. He directed numerous Hollywood films in the late 1930s to 1940s, and was the producer of '' Born Yesterday'' (1950).
Life and work
Born in Chic ...
(1910–1951), American stage/film director and producer
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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) ...
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