Silk (disambiguation)

Silk is a natural fibre and a textile woven from it.

Silk or Silks may also refer to:

Entertainment and media

• 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

Given name

• Steve "Silk" Hurley (born 1962), American house-music producer
• Silk O'Loughlin (Francis H. "Silk" O'Loughlin, 1872–1918), American umpire in Major League Baseball
• 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
• Robert Kilroy-Silk (born 1942), British former politician and TV presenter

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 lawyers
• Racing silks, racing colours worn by jockeys
• Steel Industries Limited Kerala, a company

See also

• Cilk, a programming language
• Silkin, a surname
• Silkk the Shocker, American rapper
• All pages beginning with "Silk"
• All pages with titles containing Silk