Sylla can refer to:
People
Basketball players
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Abdel Kader Sylla (born 1990), Seychelles basketball player
Football players
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Abdoul Karim Sylla (born 1981), Guinean football player
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Abdoul Karim Sylla (born 1992), Guinean-Dutch football player
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Abdoulaye Kapi Sylla (born 1982), Guinean football player
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Kanfory Sylla (born 1980), Guinean football player
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Mohamed Ofei Sylla
Mohamed Ofei Sylla (15 August 1974 – 4 February 2019) was a Guinean professional football midfielder.
Club career
Sylla played in the Turkish Super Lig for Gaziantepspor and Denizlispor.
International career
Sylla played for the Guinea na ...
(born 1974), Guinean football midfielder
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Mohamed Sylla (footballer, born 1971), Guinean football striker
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Mohamed Sylla (footballer, born 1993), French footballmidfielder
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Mohammed Sylla (born 1977), Guinean footballer, also known as "Momo Sylla" (St. Johnstone, Celtic, Kilmarnock)
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Norman Sylla
Norman Sylla (born 27 September 1982) is a Guinean retired football striker.
Career Club career
Prior to playing for the Belgian sides KSK Ronse and FCV Dender, Sylla played for the English side Banbury United and a host of other English non-l ...
(born 1982), French football striker
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Salimo Sylla, French footballer
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Yacouba Sylla (born 1990), Malian-French midfielder who plays for
KV Mechelen
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Issiaga Sylla (born 1994), Malian defender who plays for
Toulouse
Volleyball players
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Miriam Sylla
Myriam Fatime Sylla (born 8 January 1995) is an Italian volleyball player of Ivorian descent, playing as a wing spiker or opposite. She is part of the Italy women's national volleyball team. She competed at the 2015 European Games in Baku, the 2 ...
(born 1995), Ghanaian-Italian wing spiker/opposite playing for
Imoco Volley
Imoco Volley is an Italian women's volleyball club based in Conegliano and currently playing in the Serie A1.
History
The club was founded on 15 March 2012, two months after the bankruptcy of the other volleyball team in Conegliano. In April 2 ...
and the Italian national team.
Entertainers and writers
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Assa Sylla (born 1996), French actress
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Ibrahim Sylla, Sénégalease music producer
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Khady Sylla
Khady Sylla (Dakar, March 27, 1963 – Dakar, October 8, 2013) was a Senegalese writer of two novels, short work, and filmmaker.
Life
Born in Dakar, she studied at the ''École Normale Supérieure'' where she became interested in a literary caree ...
, (born 1963), Senegalese writer
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Mola Sylla
Mola Sylla (born Dakar, Senegal, 1956) is a Senegalese musician. He moved to Europe in 1987 and lives in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He is a singer and plays such traditional African instruments as the ''mbira'', ''kongoma'' (Senegalese lamellophone), ...
(born 1956), Senegalese musician
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MHD (rapper) (Mohamed Sylla, born 1994), French musician
Politicians
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Fodé Sylla
Fodé Sylla (born 23 January 1963 in Thiès, Senegal) is a French politician who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for France from 1999 to 2004.
Early life
He spent his youth in Sablé-sur-Sarthe, a French rural commune, the fi ...
(born 1963), French politician
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Jacques Sylla (born 1946), Prime Minister of Madagascar
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Mamadou Sylla (politician) (born 1960), Guinean politician and business leader
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Talla Sylla
Talla Sylla (born January 21, 1966) is a Senegalese politician and the leader of '' Action pour la Renaissance/Wallu Askanu Senegal'' (AR/WA Senegal). He was previously the leader of Alliance for Progress and Justice Jëf-Jël and was that party' ...
, Senegalese politician
Other
* French name for
Lucius Cornelius Sulla, a Roman general and statesman
See also
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Scilla (name)
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Scylla (disambiguation)
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Silla (name)
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Sillah
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Scylla
In Greek mythology, Scylla), is obsolete. ( ; grc-gre, Σκύλλα, Skúlla, ) is a legendary monster who lives on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite her counterpart Charybdis. The two sides of the strait are within an arrow's r ...
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Sulla
Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (; 138–78 BC), commonly known as Sulla, was a Roman general and statesman. He won the first large-scale civil war in Roman history and became the first man of the Republic to seize power through force.
Sulla had ...
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