title: Silvestre
text: # 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
  