Silvia

Song: “Who is Silvia? What is she”
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
(from Two Gentlemen of Verona)

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Who is Silvia? What is she,
That all our swains commend her?
Holy, fair, and wise is she;
The heaven such grace did lend her,
That she might admirèd be.

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Is she kind as she is fair?
For beauty lives with kindness.
Love doth to her eyes repair,
To help him of his blindness;
And, being helped, inhabits there.

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Then to Silvia let us sing,
That Silvia is excelling;
She excels each mortal thing
Upon the dull earth dwelling;
To her let us garlands bring.

Silvia Baraldini (December 12, 1947) is an Italian activist. She was active in both the Black Power and Puerto Rican independence movements in the United States in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. In 1982 she was sentenced to 43 years under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) for conspiring to commit two armed robberies, driving a secondary getaway car during the prison break of murder convict and fellow political activist Assata Shakur (a.k.a. Joanne Chesimard) and for contempt of court for refusing to testify before a Grand Jury that was investigating the activities of the Puerto Rican independence movement.

Silvia Barbescu (born 1961) is a Romanian multi-disciplinary artist who has been developing her career in Mexico since 2000, after being invited to the country by the Mexican government. Preferring to work with mixed media and mixed techniques, with images based on nature, her work has been recognized by various awards as well as membership in the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana and the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte in Mexico.

Silvia Cambir (24 January 1924 - 2007) was a Romanian Expressionist painter, portraitist, and book illustrator. Born in Hanul Conache, Galați County, Cambir studied at the University of Bucharest Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, as well as at the Academy of Fine Arts under Camil Ressu. She became a member of the Union of Romanian Visual Artists (UAP) in 1956. Her work has won acclaim from local art critics such as Petru Comarnescu, Ion Frunzetti and Dan Grigorescu. In 2006, she was awarded the annual UAP Grand Prize.

Silvia Night (real name Agusta Eva Erlendsdottir) is an Icelandic singer and comedian who represented her country in 2006 Eurovision with "Congratulations". It did not qualify through to the final.

Silvia Pinal is a Mexican actress, producer and politician. She is one of the most recognized and versatile Mexican actresses worldwide. She is internationally known for having starred in a famous movie trilogy with the famed film director Luis Buñuel, highlighting the classic film Viridiana (1961).

Silvia Woods (also known as Kino Aki) is a character in Inazuma Eleven.

"Oh Dear Silvia" is the title of a book by Dawn French.

Silvia is one of the names of the new princess of Sweden, daughter of Crown princess Viktioria and Prince Daniel, born on 23 February 2012. She is named for her grand mother, Queen Silvia. Her full name is ESTELLE Silvia Ewa Mary.

Mexican actress Silvia Navarro also bears this name. She's famous for playing in Mexican soap operas like Perla or Cuenda Seas Mía.

Slovak actress Silvia Šuvadová (born 4th April 1973, Ružomberok, Czechoslovakia).

A song by Marissa Nadler bears this name.

Silvia, Queen of Sweden (née Silvia Renate Sommerlath; born 23 December 1943, Heidelberg, Germany) is the Queen Consort of King Carl XVI Gustaf, Sweden's monarch, and the mother of the heir apparent to the throne, Crown Princess Victoria. She is styled Her Majesty The Queen and is in Sweden most often referred to as Drottning Silvia (Queen Silvia).

Silvia is the adventurous heroine of Shakespeare's comedy Two Gentlemen of Verona, and the Tony Award-winning musical based on the play.

Silvia Night presents her own TV show in Iceland's television. She even participated in Eurovision Song Contest 2006.

Nicole Kidman's character in the film The Interpreter is called Silvia Broome.

Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Most famous as a poet, Plath is also known for The Bell Jar, her semi-autobiographical novel detailing her struggle with clinical depression, specifically bipolar disorder. Plath and Anne Sexton are credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry that Robert Lowell and W.D. Snodgrass initiated. Since her suicide, Sylvia Plath has risen to iconic status. While married to Ted Hughes, her husband wrote a poem 'Wind', this poem was seen to have shown the storminess of their relationship and how distant they were with one another. Sylvia Plath's suicide was said to have been caused by the fact that Ted Hughes had separated from her in the prior year.

A famous bearer is Mexican actress Silvia Pinal, who starred in Luis Buñuel's 'Viridiana'. She has also appeared in several TV Mexican soap operas.

This is the name of the Queen of Sweden.