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Silk (disambiguation)

Silk (disambiguation)

Silk is a natural fibre and a textile woven from it.

Silk or Silks may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • Silk (novel), a novel by Alessandro Baricco

  • Silk, a novel by Caitlín R. Kiernan

  • Silk (group), an American R&B group

Fictional characters

  • Silk (comics), a fictional superhero in the Marvel Universe

  • Coleman Silk, a character in The Human Stain

  • Doctor Silk, a character in Ninjak

  • Patera Silk, a character in The Book of the Long Sun

  • Silk or Prince Kheldar of Drasnia, a character in The Belgariad and The Malloreon

Film and television

  • Silk (2006 film), a Taiwan horror film

  • Silk (2007 film), a drama starring Keira Knightley, based on Alessandro Baricco's novel

  • Silk (TV series), a British TV series about barristers

People

Nickname or stage name

  • Silk or Jamaal Wilkes (born 1952), American former basketball player

  • Steve "Silk" Hurley (born 1962), American house-music producer

  • (Francis) Silk O'Loughlin (1872–1918), American Major League Baseball umpire

  • Silk Smitha (Vijayalakshmi Vadlapati, 1960–1996), South Indian cinema actress

Surname

  • Alexandra Silk (born 1963), American pornographic actress

  • Anna Silk (born 1974), Canadian television and film actress

  • Dennis Silk (born 1931), British schoolmaster and international cricketer

  • Garnett Silk (1966–1994), Jamaican reggae musician

  • Gary Silk (born 1984), English footballer

  • George Silk (1916–2004), New Zealand photojournalist

  • Joseph Silk (born 1942), American professor and astronomer

  • Mark Silk (born 1950), professor of religion in public life at Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut)

  • Paul Silk, British civil servant

Other uses

  • Amazon Silk, a web browser developed by Amazon for Kindle Fire

  • SILK, an audio compression format and codec

  • Silk (soy milk), a brand of soy milk

  • Aerial silk, an apparatus used in aerial acrobatics

  • Queen's Counsel, a class of British lawyers often colloquially called "silks" for the silk gowns they wear

  • Racing silks, racing colours worn by jockeys

  • Spider silk, silk produced by spiders, used in making webs

  • Steel Industries Limited Kerala, a company

See also

  • Robert Kilroy-Silk (born 1942), British former politician and TV presenter

  • Cilk, a programming language

  • Silkin, a surname

  • Silkk the Shocker, American rapper

  • All pages with titles beginning with Silk

  • All pages with titles containing Silk

References

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Sep 26, 2019, 8:36 PM