In Culture
- Sylvia (comic strip), a long-running comic strip by cartoonist Nicole Hollander
- Sylvia (1965 film), an American drama
- Sylvia (1985 film), a New Zealand film
- Sylvia (2003 film), a British film
- Sylvia (ballet) or Sylvia ou La Nymphe de Diane, a classical ballet with music written by Léo Delibes in 1876
- Sylvia (novel), a 2006 historical novel by Bryce Courtenay
- Sylvia (1913 novel), a novel published as the work of Upton Sinclair, written by his wife Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair
- Sylvia (play), a play by A.R. Gurney
- Sylvia's Restaurant of Harlem
- "Sylvia", 1914 love song by Oley Speaks, sung by Paul Robeson
- "Sylvia", a single from the 1972 Focus album Focus III
- "Sylvia", a single from the 2009 album Hospice by The Antlers
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