Silvestro is both a surname and a masculine Italian given name. Notable people with the name include:
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Alex Silvestro
Alexander Allen Silvestro (born November 15, 1988) is a former American football tight end/defensive end who played in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Rutgers.
Prior to Rutgers, Silvestro played for Paulsboro Hi ...
(born 1988), American football player
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Chris Silvestro
Chris Silvestro (born 16 March 1979, in Bellshill) is a Scottish former footballer. During his career, Silvestro played with Albion Rovers and Raith Rovers.
Career
Silvestro began his career with Albion Rovers in 1999 where he made over 150 appe ...
(born 1979), Scottish footballer
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Jim Silvestro
Jim Silvestro (born 30 May 1963) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Sydney Swans in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Silvestro won the Latrobe Valley Football League's best and fairest award back to back in 1986 and ...
(born 1963), Australian rules footballer
* Milo Silvestro, Italian musician, and lead singer of American heavy metal band
Fear Factory
Fear Factory is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1989. Throughout the band's career, they have released ten full-length albums and have evolved through a succession of sounds, all in their main style of industrial metal. ...
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René De Silvestro
René De Silvestro (; born 26 June 1996) is an Italian para alpine skier who competed at the 2018 and 2022 Winter Paralympics. He won a silver and bronze medal at the 2022 Winter Paralympics.
Career
Silvestro represented Italy at the 2018 Winte ...
(born 1996), Italian para alpine skier
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Silvestro Aldobrandini
Silvestro Aldobrandini (1500–1558) was a Florentine jurisconsult and the father of Pope Clement VIII.
Silvestro Aldobrandini is depicted in a chapel named after Sixtus V
Pope Sixtus V ( it, Sisto V; 13 December 1521 – 27 August 1590), bo ...
(1500–1558), Italian lawyer
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Silvestro de Buoni
Silvestro de Buoni (died 1484) was an Italian painter of the early-Renaissance period, specifically the Quattrocento in Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capit ...
(died 1484), Italian Renaissance painter
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Silvestro Chiesa
Silvestro Chiesa (1623-1657) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in his natal city of Genoa. He was a pupil of Luciano Borzone
Luciano Borzone (1590 – 12 July 1645) was an Italian painter of a late- Mannerist and ear ...
(died 1657), Italian Baroque painter
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Silvestro Durante
Silvestro Durante (died 1672) was an Italian church musician and composer.
Durante was a student of the composer Giacomo Carissimi. From 1645 to 1662 he was ''maestro di cappella'' of the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome, although in ...
(died 1672), Italian Baroque composer
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Silvestro Ganassi dal Fontego
Silvestro di Ganassi dal Fontego, also given as Sylvestro di Ganassi dal Fontego, Silvestro Ganasi dal Fontego, and Silvestro dal Fontego (1 January 1492 – 1565) was a Venetian musician and author of two important treatises on instrumental t ...
(born 1492), Italian musician
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Silvestro de' Gigli
Silvestro de' Gigli, of Lucca, was a medieval Bishop of Worcester, the second of four Italian absentees to hold the see before the Reformation.
He succeeded his uncle, Giovanni de' Gigli, was nominated on 24 December 1498 and consecrated about ...
(died 1521), Italian Roman Catholic bishop
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Silvestro Lega
Silvestro Lega (8 December 1826 – 21 September 1895) was an Italian realist painter. He was one of the leading artists of the Macchiaioli and was also involved with the Mazzini movement.
Biography
He was born in Modigliana, near Forlì, to a ...
(1826–1895), Italian painter
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Sylvestro "Pedro" Morales (18??–1???), Mexican bandit
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Silvestro Palma
Silvestro Palma sometimes De Palma or Da Palma (March 15, 1754 – August 8, 1834) was an Italian composer, primarily of operas.
He was born in Barano d'Ischia, was a student of Giovanni Paisiello, and collaborated on a number of works with Pai ...
(1754–1834), Italian composer
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Silvestro Valiero
Silvestro Valier or Valiero (Venice, 28 March 1630 – Venice, 7 July 1700) was the 109th Doge of Venice, reigning from his election on 25 February 1694 until his death six years later. The Morean War between the Republic of Venice and the Ottom ...
(1630–1700), Doge of Venice
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Italian masculine given names
