Silvestre

Silvestre is a Spanish and Portuguese given name or surname, or a French surname. Notable people with the name include:

Surname

• Cindy Silvestre (born 1993), French kickboxer
• Franck Silvestre (born 1967), retired French footballer
• Isac Silvestre (born 2006), Brazilian footballer
• Israel Silvestre (1621–1691; called the Younger to distinguish him from his father), prolific French draftsman
• José Plaridel Silvestre, writer and senior official of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines
• Louis de Silvestre (1675–1760), French portrait and history painter, (son of Israel Silvestre)
• Manuel Silvestre (born 1965), 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

Part of combined surname

• Manuel Fernández Silvestre (1871–1921), Spanish military general
• Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758–1838), French linguist and orientalist
• Paulo Sérgio Silvestre do Nascimento (born 1969), former Brazilian footballer

Fictional

• José Silvestre, character in H. Rider Haggard's adventure novel King Solomon's Mines (1885)

Given name

• Silvestre S. Herrera
• Silvestre Igoa
• Silvestre Selva
• Silvestre Pinheiro (born 1984), Portuguese football player
• Silvestre Rasuk
• Silvestre Reyes
• Silvestre Dangond
• Silvestre Vélez de Escalante
• Silvestre Siale Bileka

See also

• Silvestre, Rio de Janeiro, a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro
• Encina de San Silvestre
• San Silvestre School
• San Silvestre Vallecana