Sylvester

Given name

• Sylvester of Marsico, Count of Marsico in the Kingdom of Sicily
• Silvester Diggles, Australian musician and ornithologist
• Sylvester Graham, Presbyterian minister, father of graham crackers
• Sylvester McCoy, actor
• Sylvester James Jr., also known as Sylvester, a singer and disco performer
• Sylvester Stewart, or Sly Stone, musician and record producer, best known as the frontman for Sly and the Family Stone
• Sylvester Stallone, actor
• Sylvester Mittee, Saint Lucian/British boxer of the 1970s and '80s
• Sylvester Terkay, American professional wrestler
• Sylvester Levay, Hungarian musician

  Churchpeople

• Pope Sylvester I, Saint Sylvester
• Pope Sylvester II
• Pope Sylvester III
• Antipope Sylvester IV, a claimant from 1105 to 1111
• Sylvester of Kiev, clergyman and writer in Kievan Rus
• Sylvester Gozzolini, saint and founder of the Sylvestrines religious order
• Sylvester of Assisi, companion of Saint Francis of Assisi
• Sylvester of Antioch, 18th century Greek bishop
• Sylvester of Worcester, early 13th century Bishop of Worcester

  Surname

• Attila Silvester, Greek choreographer
• Charles Sylvester, English chemist and inventor
• Dean Sylvester, American hockey player
• Hannah Sylvester, American blues singer
• Harold Sylvester, American film and television actor
• James Joseph Sylvester, English mathematician
• Joshua Sylvester, English poet
• Marc Sylvester, American middle-distance runner
• Michael Sylvester, American politician and labor organizer
• Michael Sylvester, American opera-singer
• Rick Sylvester, American stuntman
• Robin Sylvester, English musician
• Sherry Sylvester, American political worker and journalist
• Walter Sylvester, English inventor
• William Sylvester, American TV and film actor
• William Henry Thomas Sylvester, English army officer and surgeon

  Fictional characters

• Sylvester the Cat, a Looney Tunes character
• Sylvester Junior, a son of Sylvester J. Pussycat, Sr.
• Sylvester, a donkey in the children's book Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
• Sue Sylvester, a main character on the Fox sitcom Glee
• Sylvester, a main character in the hip hopera/Comedy Trapped In The Closet
• Sylvester Rax, an antagonist in the 1985 animated show M.A.S.K.
• Sylvester McMonkey McBean, a character in the Dr. Seuss book The Sneetches and Other Stories
• Sylvester "Sylvie" Ashling, a side character in the mini series "Epithet Erased"