Silver (surname)
Silver is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Abba Hillel Silver (1893–1963), Lithuanian-American rabbi
- Adam Silver (born 1962), American sports executive; NBA commissioner (2014–present)
- Bernard Silver (1924/1925–1963), an early developer of barcode technology
- Cheyenne Silver, stage name of American pornographic actress Cara Fawn (born 1978)
- Eliezer Silver (1882–1968) Lithuanian Orthodox rabbi and American human rights activist
- Emily Silver (born 1985), retired American swimmer
- George Silver (ca. 1560s–1620s), British swordsman
- George Silver (Scotland), agricultural innovator
- Horace Silver (1928–2014), American jazz pianist and composer
- Joe Silver (1922–1989), American actor
- Joel Silver (born 1952), Jewish-American Hollywood film producer
- John Silver (musician) (born 1950), former second drummer for the rock band Genesis
- Joseph Silver (1868–1918), South African criminal
- Josh Silver (born 1962), keyboardist and producer for the band Type O Negative
- Joshua Silver, British scientist
- Leon Silver (born 1925), professor of Geology at Caltech and instructor to Apollo astronaut crews
- Monroe Silver (fl. 1910–1940), American dialect-comedian.
- Nate Silver (born 1978), sports and political journalist, founder of FiveThirtyEight.com
- Paul Silver (1948–2009), American seismologist
- Philip Silver (1909–1999), American philatelist
- Ron Silver (1946–2009), American actor
- Sheldon Silver (born 1944), speaker of the New York State Assembly
- Spencer Silver (born 1941), inventor
- Thomas B. Silver (1947–2001), author and president of the Claremont Institute
- Warren Silver (born 1948), state supreme court justice in Maine
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