Silk (disambiguation)
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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
- Silks, a novel by Dick Francis and Felix Francis
- Silk (group), an American R&B group
Fictional characters
- Silk (comics), a fictional superhero in the Marvel Universe
- 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
- Silk, a BBC Two '1991–2001' ident
People
Nickname or stage name
- 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
- Silk (web browser) or 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
- 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 beginning with "Silk"
- All pages with titles containing Silk
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