Sylvester or Silvester is a given name and a surname.
Sylvester may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment Sylvester (film), a 1985 film starring Richard Farnsworth New Year's Eve (1924 film) or Sylvester, a German film by Lupu Pick Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle, a novel by Georgette Heyer Sylvester (singer), singer and disco performer Sylvester James Jr. (1947–1988)
Places Lake Sylvester System, Australia Sylvester, Nova Scotia, Canada Mount Sylvester, Canada Sylvester, Georgia, United States Sylvester, Texas, United States Sylvester, West Virginia, United States Sylvester, Wisconsin, United States Sylvester (crater), a crater on the Moon
Other uses Silvester baronets Euploea sylvester, a butterfly species Sylvester, a device for safely removing pit props in mines, invented by Walter Sylvester
See also Sylvester's criterion, to determine whether a Hermitian matrix is positive-definite Felis silvestris or wildcat Saint Sylvester (disambiguation) St. Silvester, Fribourg, Switzerland Saint-Sylvestre (disambiguation) Silvester Silvestre Silvesterklaus Sylvestre (disambiguation) Sylwester