Sylva
Sylva is an incorporated town located in central Jackson County, in the Plott Balsam Mountains of Western North Carolina, United States of America. As of the 2010 census, the town had a total population of 2,588. It is the county seat, having taken over from nearby Webster in 1913.
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Katharine Cook Briggs
Isabel Briggs Myers' mother
Leroy Mercer
Surgeon
Paul Hervey Fox
Writer
William Francis Gray Swann
American physicist
Arnold Dresden
Dutch-American mathematician
Eleanor Saffran
Lucy Elmina Anthony
Homer A. Jack
American clergyman
Jane Swisshelm
American journalist
Larry Pape
Baseball player
Lou Michaels
American football player
Adam Comorosky
American baseball player
Robert J. Conley
Author
Hugh Peterson
Former United States Representative
Tommy Anderson
Ice hockey defenceman
Arnie Lerma
American author
George Elliott Hagan
American Politician
John R. McKinney
Soldier
Gordie Howe
Canadian ice hockey player
Arthur Hills
American designer
Rance Allen
Bishop
Tom Matchick
Baseball player
David A. Katz
Former Judge
Johnny Gildea
American football player
Rene Portland
American basketball coach
Nelson McVicar
Former Judge
Allan Randall Freelon
American artist
Joe Klein
American baseball manager
Joanne A. Epps
American professor
William Lukens Elkins
American businessman
Nikolaj Velimirović
Bishop
Joey Powers
American singer
Eleonora Duse
Italian actress
Frank Rizzo
Former Mayor of Philadelphia
Pearl Bailey
American actress
Frances Tipton Hunter
Illustrator
Emil Milan
American Sculptor
Ray Keech
Auto racer
Edwin Henry Fitler
American Politician
Joseph Powell
Former United States Representative
Wilson D. Gillette
Former Pennsylvania State Representative
William T. Davies
Former Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania
Wilson Darwin Gillette
Former United States Representative
Basarab Laiotă cel Bătrân
Ruler
György Luntzer
Hungarian olympic athlete
Radu II of Wallachia
Ruler
Giorgio Biandrata
Italian physician
