Sylla can refer to:
People
Basketball players
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Abdel Kader Sylla
Abdel Kader Sylla (born 10 April 1990), is a Seychellois professional basketball player. He is known as being the first professional player from the Seychelles. He currently plays for Hermine Nantes of the LNB Pro B.
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(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
Abdoulaye Kapi Sylla (born September 15, 1982, in Kindia) is a Guinean football player. Currently, he plays in the Championnat de France amateur for AS Yzeure. He played before for Club Industriel Kamsar, AS Angoulême and Tours FC.
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(born 1982), Guinean football player
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Kanfory Sylla
Kanfory Sylla (born 7 July 1980 in Conakry) is a Guinean football defensive all-arounder who currently plays for Zakho FC in the Iraqi Premier League. He played for Sivasspor, İstanbul BB and Konyaspor in Turkey's Super League.
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(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)
Mohamed Sylla (22 February 1971 – 9 June 2010) was a Guinean professional footballer who played as a forward.
Club career
Sylla started his career with local team Hafia Conakry. scoring many goals at Gabonese league side USM Libreville he ...
, Guinean football striker
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Mohamed Sylla (footballer, born 1993)
Mohamed Sylla (born 1 December 1921) is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Dundee.
Career
Born in Paris, Sylla began his career with L'Entente SSG, where he made over 100 appearances before signing with Engli ...
, French footballmidfielder
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Mohammed Sylla
Mohammed "Momo" Sylla (born 13 March 1977) is a Guinean former professional footballer who played as a winger.
Club career
Sylla started his football career at French Second Division club Créteil, on the outskirts of Paris, before moving on t ...
(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
Salimo Sylla (born 25 January 1994) is a French professional footballer who plays as a defender for club Versailles.
Career
In January 2022, Sylla returned to France by signing for Versailles in the Championnat National 2.
Honours
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, French footballer
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Yacouba Sylla
Yacouba Sylla (born 29 November 1990) is a professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Belgian First Division B side Virton. Born in France, he represented France as a youth international before switching to Mali at senior ...
(born 1990), Malian-French midfielder who plays for
KV Mechelen
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Issiaga Sylla
Issiaga Sylla (born 1 January 1994) is a Guinean professional footballer who plays as a left-back for club Montpellier and the Guinea national team.
Club career
Sylla was born in Conakry, Guinea. He made his debut for Toulouse on 4 May 2013, ...
(born 1994), Malian defender who plays for
Toulouse
Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger Regions of France, region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania. The city is on t ...
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
Ibrahima Sylla (2 April 1956 – 30 December 2013) was a Senegalese record producer born in Ivory Coast and founder of the African music label Syllart Records. He was an internationally acclaimed musician whose production and music direction defi ...
, Sénégalease music producer
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Khady Sylla, (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 10 September 1994), better known by his stage name MHD, is a French rapper from Paris, who is known for blending trap music with music of West Africa; a genre he coined as "Afro Trap". He was previously part of the rap coll ...
(Mohamed Sylla, born 1994), French musician
Politicians
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Fodé Sylla (born 1963), French politician
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Jacques Sylla
Jacques Hugues Sylla (July 1946 – 26 December 2009) was a Malagasy politician. He was the Prime Minister of Madagascar under President Marc Ravalomanana from February 2002 to January 2007. He subsequently served as the President of the Natio ...
(born 1946), Prime Minister of Madagascar
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Mamadou Sylla (politician) Mamadou Sylla (born 25 January 1960) is a Guinean politician and business leader.
Born in Boké, in 1986 Sylla was one of several people given large amounts of rice by the Government to retail. Becoming wealthy, he moved to Conakry and became a ...
(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
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Lucius Cornelius 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.
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, a Roman general and statesman
See also
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Scilla (name)
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Scylla (disambiguation)
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Scylla
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Scilla
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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.
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