Sylvester (disambiguation)

Sylvester or Silvester is a given name and a surname.

Sylvester may also refer to:

Film

• Sylvester (film), a 1985 film starring Richard Farnsworth
• New Year's Eve (1924 film) or Sylvester, a 1924 German film by Lupu Pick

People

• Pope Sylvester I (died 335), Saint Sylvester
• Pope Sylvester II (c. 946–1003)
• Pope Sylvester III (died 1062 or 1063)
• Sylvester of Marsico (c. 1100-1162), Count of Marsico in the Kingdom of Sicily
• Sylvester of Kiev (c. 1055–1123), clergyman and writer in Kievan Rus
• Antipope Sylvester IV, a claimant from 1105 to 1111
• Sylvester of Assisi (died 1240), companion of Saint Francis of Assisi
• Sylvester of Worcester, early 13th-century Bishop of Worcester
• Sylvester (priest), 15th-century priest of the Cathedral of the Annunciation and close advisor to Ivan IV
• Sylvester of Antioch, 18th-century Greek bishop
• Sylvester (singer)
• Sylvester Stallone (actor)

Places

• Lake Sylvester System, Australia
• Sylvester, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Mount Sylvester, Canada
• Sylvester, Georgia, U.S.
• Sylvester, Texas, U.S.
• Sylvester, West Virginia, U.S.
• Sylvester, Wisconsin, U.S.
• St. Silvester, Fribourg, Switzerland

Other uses

• Sylvester (crater), a crater on the Moon
• Sylvester the Cat, a Looney Tunes character
• Euploea sylvester, a butterfly species
• Sylvester, a donkey in the children's book Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
• Sylvester, a device for safely removing pit props in mines, invented by Walter Sylvester

See also

• Felis silvestris or wildcat
• Saint Sylvester (disambiguation)
• Saint-Sylvestre (disambiguation)
• Silvester
• Silvestre
• Silvesterklaus
• Sylvestre (disambiguation)
• Sylwester