Silone is a surname of Italian origin. Notable people with this surname include: * Ignazio Silone, Italian political leader and novelist nominated for the Nobel prize for literature ten times * Josephine Silone Yates (1859-1912), the second president of the National Association of Colored Women and one of the first black professors hired at Lincoln University This page lists people with the surname Silone. If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.