Silvestre
# 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
* 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
