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Sibyl (disambiguation)

Sibyl (disambiguation)

Sibyls were oracular women believed to possess prophetic powers in ancient Greece.

Sibyl and Sybil may also refer to:

People

  • Sibil, a pseudonym for Zabel Sibil Asadour (1863–1934), an Armenian poet, writer, publisher and philanthropist

  • Sybil (singer), or Sybil Lynch, American singer

  • Sibyl Buck (born 1972), American musician

  • Sibyl of Burgundy (1126–1150), Queen Consort of Sicily

  • Sibyl Colefax (1874–1950), English interior designer and socialite

  • Sybil Connolly (1921–1998), Irish fashion designer

  • Sybil Dorsett, a pseudonym for Shirley Ardell Mason (1923–1998), American psychiatric patient with alleged multiple personality disorder

  • Sibyll-Anka Klotz (born 1961), German politician

  • Sybil Leek (1917–1982) English witch

  • Sybil Ludington, teenager who rode into town to warn people that the British were coming

  • Sibyl Mary Hathaway (1884–1974), Dame of Sark

  • Sibyl Moholy-Nagy (1903–1971), German non-fiction writer

  • Sibyl Morrison (1895–1961), Australian lawyer

  • Sibyl Sanderson (1864–1903), American soprano

  • Sybil Sassoon (1894–1989), British officer during World War 2

  • Sybil Seely (1902–1984), American actress of the Silent Era

  • Cybill Shepherd, American actress

  • Sybil Thorndike (1882–1976), English actress

  • Sybil (wife of Pain fitzJohn) (12th century), wife of Pain fitzJohn and Josce de Dinan

Film and television

  • Sybil (1921 film), a 1921 film adaptation of the novel Sybil or The Two Nations, 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli

  • Sybil (1976 film), a 1976 film starring Sally Field, based on the book of the same name by Flora Rheta Schreiber

  • Sybil (2007 film), a 2007 remake of the 1976 film, starring Tammy Blanchard and Jessica Lange

  • Sibyl (2019 film), a 2019 French film

Literature and journalism

  • Sybil (Schreiber book), by Flora Rheta Schreiber, an account of the life of Shirley Ardell Mason, an alleged sufferer from multiple personality disorder

  • Sybil (novel) or The Two Nations, 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli

  • Sybil, 1952 novel by Louis Auchincloss

  • The Sybil, American dress reform periodical founded by Lydia Sayer Hasbrouck

  • The Sybil, English title of the 1956 Swedish novel Sibyllan by Nobel Laureate Pär Lagerkvist

Music

  • Sybil, English-language version of the operetta Szibill by Victor Jacobi

  • "The Song of the Sibyl", a Gregorian chant sung on Christmas Eve in Majorca

Fictional characters

  • Sybil Fawlty, a character played by Prunella Scales in the British sitcom Fawlty Towers.

  • Sybil Birling, a character in the play, An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestley.

  • Sybill Trelawney, a character in the Harry Potter series, professor of Divination at Hogwarts

  • Lady Sybil Vimes, a character in the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett

  • Sybil Stone, a character played by Diane Keaton in the American film The Family Stone

  • Sybil Pandemik, a character in Telltale Games' Sam & Max episodes

  • Sybil Branson, a character in the series Downton Abbey played by Jessica Brown Findlay, or her daughter, nicknamed "Sybbie"

  • Sibyl Vane, a character in the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Other uses

  • SS Sybil (1901), a Uganda Railway Lake Victoria ferry scuttled in 1967

  • Sybil attack, the use of stolen or forged multiple identities for defeating a reputation system

  • Sybil, a two-handed card flourish created by American magician Chris Kenner

  • Sybil (cat), a cat employed at Downing Street in the United Kingdom

  • HMS Sibyl (P217), an S class submarine

  • USS Sibyl (1863), a wooden-hulled steamer

  • Sibil, another name for Ngalum, a language of New Guinea

  • Sibyl System, the primary system that judges individuals the anime Psycho-Pass

See also

  • Cybil (disambiguation)

  • Sibylla (disambiguation)

  • Sibille (disambiguation)

  • Sibylle (disambiguation)

References

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Sep 26, 2019, 2:36 AM