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Sylvan (name)

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Sylvan is a masculine given name and a surname which may refer to:

  • Sylvan Barnet (born 1926), American literary critic, Shakespearean scholar and Fletcher Professor of English Emeritus at Tufts University
  • Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (born 1986), English footballer
  • Sylvan Friedman (1908–1979), Jewish-American politician
  • Sylvan Goldman (1898-1984), American businessman and inventor of the shopping cart
  • Sylvan Levin (1903–1996), American concert pianist and conductor
  • Sylvan Richardson, British guitarist, composer and masseur
  • Sylvan Wittwer (1917-2012), American agronomist
  • Johann Sylvan (died 1572), Reformed German theologian who was executed for his heretical beliefs
  • Kaj Sylvan (born 1923), Danish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1950s
  • Per Sylvan (1875-1945), Swedish Army lieutenant general
  • Richard Sylvan (1935-1996), Australian logician and environmentalist also known as Richard Routley
  • Sanford Sylvan, American operatic baritone
  • Torsten Sylvan (1895–1970), Swedish equestrian who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics

See also

  • S. Sylvan Simon (1910–1951), American stage/film director and producer
  • Sylvain, a list of people with the given name