Silvestre
Silvestre is a Spanish and Portuguese given name or surname, or a French surname. Notable people with the name include:
Surname
- Franck Silvestre (born 1967), a retired French footballer,
- Israel Silvestre (1621 – 1691), called the Younger to distinguish him from his father, was a prolific French draftsman,
- Louis de Silvestre(1675 – 1760), a French portrait and history painter, (son of Israel Silvestre)
- Manuel Silvestre (born 1965), a former Spanish water polo player,
- Matías Silvestre (born 1984), Argentine football (soccer) player,
- Mikaël Silvestre (born 1977), French football (soccer) player,
- Paul Armand Silvestre (1837 – 1901), French poet and conteur,
- Silvestre de Sacy (1758 – 1838), a French linguist and orientalist.
- Part of combined surname
- Manuel Fernández Silvestre (1871 – 1921), was a Spanish military general,
- Paulo Sérgio Silvestre do Nascimento (born 1969), a former Brazilian footballer.
- Fictional
- José Silvestre in H. Rider Haggard's adventure novel King Solomon's Mines (1885).
Given name
- Silvestre S. Herrera
- Silvestre Igoa
- Silvestre Selva
- Silvestre Rasuk
- Silvestre Reyes
- Silvestre Dangond
- Silvestre Vélez de Escalante
- Silvestre Siale Bileka
- Silvestre Dale Rolea
See also
- Silvestre, Rio de Janeiro, a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro
- Encina de San Silvestre
- San Silvestre School
- San Silvestre Vallecana
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