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's criterion, to determine whether a Hermitian matrix is positive-definite.
 * 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
 * Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle, a novel by Georgette Heyer