Silvanus (name)
Silvanus is a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include:
- Marcus Plautius Silvanus, Roman consul in 2 BC
- Tiberius Plautius Silvanus Aelianus, a Roman patrician serving twice as consul
- Marcus Caeionius Silvanus, Roman consul in 156 AD
- Saint Silvanus, also known as Silas, an early Christian and companion of Paul
- Silvanus of the Seventy, another early Christian and traditionally among Jesus' seventy apostles
- Saint Silvanus, was one of the seven sons of Saint Felicitas of Rome
- Silvanus of Ahun, 5th-century martyr
- Claudius Silvanus, Frankish usurper in 355
- Silvanus Bevan, 18th century apothecary
- Silvanus Melea Otieno, posthumously controversial Kenyan lawyer
- Silvanus Trevail, Cornish architect
- Silvanus P. Thompson, physicist, engineer and author
- Silouan the Athonite, also known as Saint Silvanus the Athonite
- Colonel Sylvanus Thayer, "Father of the United States Military Academy"
- Silvanus, a Roman officer of the Third Century AD
- Silvanus Njambari, retired Namibian footballer with Black Africa F.C..
- Silvino Bercellino, retired Italian football player
- Silvino Francisco, retired South African professional snooker player
- Silvino Gomes Soares, Cape Verdean football striker
- Silvino Louro, is a retired Portuguese footballer who played as a goalkeeper
- Sylvanus Bowser, widely credited with inventing the automobile fuel pump
- Sylvanus C. Breyfogel, American Bishop of the Evangelical Association
- Sylvanus Dung Dung, former field hockey player from India
- Sylvanus H. Sweet, American civil engineer and politician from New York. He was New York State Engineer and Surveyor from 1874 to 1875
- Sylvanus Lowry, slave owning Southern aristocrat from Kentucky who reigned as the political boss of Saint Cloud, Minnesota
- Sylvanus Morgan, English arms-painter and author
- Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist, epigrapher, and Mayanist scholar
- Sylvanus Ngele, Senator for the Ebonyi North constituency of Ebonyi State, Nigeria
- Sylvanus Okpala, retired Nigerian football midfielder
- Sylvanus Olympio, Togolese political figure who served as Prime Minister, and then President, of Togo from 1958 until his assassination in 1963
- Sylvanus Percival Vivian, 7th Registrar General of England and Wales
- Sylvanus T. Rugg, officer in the Union Army who commanded an artillery battery at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War
- Sylvanus Wear, English naturalist who settled in Belfast in 1904
- Sylvanus William Godon, American naval officer who served in the Mexican–American and American Civil Wars
- Sylvanus Wood, English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1654
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