Silvanus (name)

Silvanus is a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include:

  • Silvanus (praetorian prefect), a Roman officer of the Third Century AD
  • Silvanus Njambari (born 1974), retired Namibian footballer with Black Africa F.C..
  • Silvino Bercellino (born 1946), retired Italian football player
  • Silvino Francisco (born 1946), retired South African professional snooker player
  • Silvino Gomes Soares (born 1978), Cape Verdean football striker
  • Silvino Louro (born 1959), is a retired Portuguese footballer who played as a goalkeeper
  • Sylvanus Bowser (19th-century–1938), widely credited with inventing the automobile fuel pump
  • Sylvanus C. Breyfogel (born 1851), American Bishop of the Evangelical Association
  • Sylvanus Dung Dung (born 1949), former field hockey player from India
  • Sylvanus H. Sweet (1830–1899), American civil engineer and politician from New York. He was New York State Engineer and Surveyor from 1874 to 1875
  • Sylvanus Lowry (died 1865), slave owning Southern aristocrat from Kentucky who reigned as the political boss of Saint Cloud, Minnesota
  • Sylvanus Morgan (1620 – March 27, 1693), English arms-painter and author
  • Sylvanus Morley (1883–1948), American archaeologist, epigrapher, and Mayanist scholar
  • Sylvanus Ngele, Senator for the Ebonyi North constituency of Ebonyi State, Nigeria
  • Sylvanus Okpala (born 1961), retired Nigerian football midfielder
  • Sylvanus Olympio (1902–1963), Togolese political figure who served as Prime Minister, and then President, of Togo from 1958 until his assassination in 1963
  • Sylvanus Percival Vivian (1880–1958), 7th Registrar General of England and Wales (1921–1945)
  • Sylvanus T. Rugg (1834–1881), officer in the Union Army who commanded an artillery battery at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War
  • Sylvanus Wear (1858–1920), English naturalist who settled in Belfast in 1904
  • Sylvanus William Godon (1809–1879), American naval officer who served in the Mexican–American and American Civil Wars
  • Sylvanus Wood (1604–1675), English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1654
Fictional
  • Silvanus Kettleburn, the former Care of Magical Creatures teacher in the Harry Potter novel series
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