Sly or Slye is the
surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community.
Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...
of:
People:
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Allan Sly (born 1951), sculptor
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Allan Sly (mathematician), probability theorist and MacArthur Fellow
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Darryl Sly (1939–2007), Canadian National Hockey League player
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Damon Slye Damon Slye (born June 15, 1962) is a computer game game designer, designer, director, and game programmer, programmer. In 1984 he founded Dynamix with Jeff Tunnell in Eugene, Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. He is best known for creating the historic flight ...
(born 1962), computer game designer, director and programmer
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Harold Sly (1904–1996), English professional association football player
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James Calvin Sly (1807–1864), Mormon pioneer, scout, settler and missionary
* Leonard Slye, birth name of
Roy Rogers
Roy Rogers (born Leonard Franklin Slye; November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and television host. Following early work under his given name, first as co-founder of the Sons of the Pioneers and then acting, the rebra ...
(1911–1998), America singer and actor
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Maud Slye (1879–1954), American pathologist
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Philippe Sly
Philippe Sly (born 1988 or 1989 in Ottawa) is a Canadian bass-baritone and opera, oratorio and recital singer.
Biography
Sly grew up in Ottawa, joined local boys and adult choirs and studied music at McGill University. In 2011 he was one of ...
, Canadian singer
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Richard Meares Sly (1849–1929), Australian judge
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Tony Sly
Anthony James Sly (November 4, 1970 – July 31, 2012) was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known as the front man of the punk rock band No Use for a Name. In his later years he also gained attention for his acousti ...
(1970–2012), American singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known as the frontman of the punk rock band No Use for a Name
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William Sly
William Sly (died August 1608) was an actor in English Renaissance theatre, a colleague of William Shakespeare and Richard Burbage in the Lord Chamberlain's Men and the King's Men.
Nothing is known of Sly's early life. He enters the historica ...
(died 1608), Elizabethan actor and colleague of William Shakespeare
Fictional characters:
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Christopher Sly
Christopher Sly is a minor character in William Shakespeare's ''The Taming of the Shrew.'' He is a drunk man who is easily dominated by women, set up as a Foil (literature), foil to Petruchio, the central male character in the play.
Role
''The T ...
, in Shakespeare's play ''The Taming of the Shrew''
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