Sidney


Gender:
Origin: English
731 famous people named Sidney found on Wikipedia.
83107 male, 23777 female in US.
Most recent ranking: 1155-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 80-th in year 1912
Used in: English

Meanings

A male or female given name: a family name taken from a French placename, Saint Denis.

Sidney or Sydney is an English surname. It is probably derived from an Anglo-Saxon locational name, [æt þǣre] sīdan īege = "[at the] wide island/watermeadow (in the dative case). There is also a folk etymological derivation from the French place name Saint-Denis.
The name has also been used as a given name since the 19th century.

Wide meadow, south of the water. Combine of sid (wide) and eg (island).

Famous People: 731 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Sidney Crosby 1987 Canadian ice hockey centre
2 Sidney Poitier 1927 American-born Bahamian actor, film director, author, and diplomat
3 Sidney Lumet 1924 American director, producer and screenwriter
4 Sidney Sheldon 1917 American writer
5 Sidney Blumenthal 1948 American political writer
6 Sidney Luft 1915 American film producer and businessman
7 Sidney Hoffmann 1979 German entrepreneur and presenter
8 Sylvia Sidney 1910 1910-1999 American actress
9 Philip Sidney 1554 English diplomat
10 Sidney Reilly 1873 British spy
11 Sidney Bechet 1897 American musician
12 Sabrina Sidney 1757 British foundling girl taken in when she was 12 by author Thomas Day
13 Sidney Sampaio 1980 Brazilian actor
14 Sidney Rice 1986 American football player, wide receiver
15 Sidney Prescott Scream character
16 Sidney Phillips 1924 American physician
17 Sidney Moncrief 1957 American basketball player-coach
18 Saniyya Sidney
19 Sidney Kimmel 1928 American businessman and philanthropist
20 Sidney Sam 1988 German football player
21 Sidney Govou 1979 French footballer
22 Sidney Cooke 1927 British murderer
23 Sidney Gottlieb 1918 American chemist
24 Sidney Lanier 1842 American musician, poet
25 Sidney Nolan 1917 Australian artist
26 Sidney Toler 1874 Actor, playwright, theatre director
27 Sidney Blackmer 1895 American actor
28 Sidney Lowe 1960 American basketball player and coach
29 Sidney Howard 1891 American writer
30 Sidney Sloane 1978 British actor
31 Sidney Kidman 1857 Australian businessman
32 Sidney Leslie Goodwin 1910 British victim of the RMS Titanic sinking
33 Sidney Frank 1919 American businessman and philanthropist
34 Sidney Farber 1903 American physician
35 Sidney Rigdon 1793 American Mormon leader
36 Sidney Harman 1918 American businessman
37 Sid Sheinberg 1935 American lawyer and entertainment executive
38 Sidney Dorsey 1940 Law enforcement official, first African-American sheriff of DeKalb County, Georgia, convicted murderer
39 Sidney Runyan Thomas 1953 American judge
40 Sidney J. Furie 1933 Canadian film director
41 Sidney Hook 1902 American philosopher of the Pragmatist school
42 George Sidney 1916 Film director and producer
43 Sidney Ponson 1976 Baseball player
44 Sidney Altman 1939 Canadian American molecular biologist
45 Sidney Weinberg 1891 American banker
46 Sidney Paget 1860 English illustrator
47 Algernon Sidney 1623 British politician and political theorist
48 Sidney Myer 1878 Australian businessman
49 Sidney Samson 1981 Dutch DJ
50 Sidney Mintz 1922 American anthropologist
51 Sidney Jones American football player
52 Sidney Toledano 1951
53 Mary Sidney 1561 Countess of Pembroke, poet, and literary patron
54 Sidney Wicks 1949 American basketball player
55 Sidney Sladen 1980 Indian businessman
56 Sidney Webb 1859 British Baron and politician
57 Sidney Coleman 1937 American physicist
58 Sidney Godley 1889 Recipient of the Victoria Cross
59 Sidney Bernstein, Baron Bernstein 1899 British Baron
60 Sidney Bradford 1906 British transplant recipient
61 Sidney Rittenberg 1921 American academic
62 Renardo Sidney 1989 American basketball player
63 Sidney Kibrick 1928 American actor
64 Sidney Morgenbesser 1921 American philosopher
65 Sidney Green 1961 American basketball player-coach
66 Sidney Souers 1892 United States admiral
67 Sidney Drell 1926 American physicist
68 Ann Sidney 1944 Miss World 1964
69 Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin 1645 British politician
70 Sidney Cole 1908 British film producer
71 Sidney Lee 1979 Danish television personality
72 Sidney Buller-Fullerton-Elphinstone, 16th Lord Elphinstone 1869 British Baron
73 Sidney Fields 1898 American actor
74 Sidney W. Fox 1912 American biochemist
75 Sidney Taurel 1949 American businessman
76 Sidney Korshak 1907 American lawyer
77 Sidney Sonnino 1847 Italian politician
78 Sidney Holland 1893 New Zealand politician
79 Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea 1810 British politician
80 Sidney Sherman 1805 Texan general and a key leader in the Texas Army during the Texas Revolution
81 Sidney Shachnow 1934 Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
82 Sidney Fox 1911 Actress
83 Sidney Buchman 1902 American screenwriter
84 Sidney Barthelemy 1942 American politician
85 Sidney Hall 1788 British cartographer
86 Rockin' Sidney 1938 Musician
87 Henry Sidney 1529 English politician and courtier
88 Sidney Cotton 1894 Australian inventor, photographer and aviator
89 Sidney Cipriano 1965 Brazilian vocalist
90 Sidney Craig 1932 American businessman
91 Sidney Shapiro 1915 American translator
92 Sidney Hillman 1887 American labor leader
93 Sidney Kingsley 1906 American writer
94 Sidney Tarrow 1938 American sociologist
95 Sidney Verba 1932 American political scientist
96 Sidney R. Yates 1909 American politician
97 Sidney Rezende 1958 Brazilian journalist
98 Sidney Peel 1870 British soldier, financier and Conservative politician
99 Sidney Sime 1867 English artist
100 Sidney Montagu, 11th Duke of Manchester 1929 British noble
101 Sidney M. Gutierrez 1951 American astronaut
102 Sidney Gilliat 1908 British film director, producer and screenwriter
103 Sidney Janis 1896 American fashion designer
104 Sidney Santiago Brazilian actor
105 Sidney Bradshaw Fay 1876 American historian
106 Sidney Olcott 1873 Canadian actor and film director
107 Sidney Johnston Catts 1863 22nd Governor of Florida
108 Sidney Dillon Ripley 1913 Ornithologist
109 Sidney W. Pink 1916 American film director and producer
110 Sidney Darlington 1906 Electrical engineer and inventor of a transistor configuration
111 Sidney A. Ribeau President of Harvard University
112 Sidney Richard Percy 1821 British artist
113 Sidney Skolsky 1905 Actor, gossip columnist, radio personality, screenwriter
114 Sidney Edgerton 1818 Union United States Army officer
115 Sidney Abrahams 1885 English long jumper and Chief Justice of Ceylon
116 Fanny Sidney 1987 French actress and theatre director
117 Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke 1853 British politician
118 Sidney Wood 1911 US tennis player
119 Sidney Colvin 1845 English curator and literary and art critic
120 Sidney Gilchrist Thomas 1850 British inventor
121 Sidney Garfield 1906 American healthcare administrator
122 Sidney Lanfield 1898 American film director
123 Sidney Alford Explosives expert
124 Sidney Zion 1933 American writer
125 Sidney Franklin 1903 American bullfighter
126 Sidney Hayers 1921 British television director
127 Sidney Torch 1908 British composer
128 Sidney Cristiano dos Santos 1981 Brazilian footballer
129 Sidney L. Pressey 1888
130 Sidney Breese 1800 American politician
131 Margaret Sidney 1844 American children's writer (pseudonym)
132 Sidney S. Liufau 1963 American actor
133 Hilarie Sidney American drummer
134 Sidney Rowlatt 1862 English barrister and judge
135 Sidney Salkow 1911 Film director, screenwriter
136 Sidney Rivera 1993
137 Sidney Davidoff 1939 American lawyer
138 Sidney Bryan Berry 1926 Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
139 Sidney M. Wolfe American health activist
140 Sidney Abbott 1937 Feminist writer
141 Sidney Spencer 1985 American basketball player
142 Sidney Dancoff 1913 American physicist
143 Sidney Mills 1959 Jamaican musician
144 Sidney H. Stein 1945 United States federal judge
145 Sidney Sax 1913 British violinist
146 Sidney Keyes 1922 British poet
147 Sir William Sidney 1482 English courtier
148 Sidney Herbert, 16th Earl of Pembroke 1906 English noble
149 Sidney A. McPhee President, Middle Tennessee State University
150 Sidney Preston Osborn 1884 American politician
151 Sidney Glazier 1916 American film producer
152 Sidney Carroll 1913 American screenwriter
153 Sidney Rosenthal 1907 American inventor
154 Sidney Harry Fox British murderer
155 Sidney Duteil 1955 French musician
156 Sidney Homer, Sr. 1864 American composer
157 Sidney A. Fitzwater 1953 American district court judge
158 Sidney Weintraub 1914 American economist
159 Sidney W. Bijou 1908 American psychologist
160 Sidney Katz 1924 American scientist
161 Sidney De Haan 1919 British businessman
162 Sidney Jourard 1926 Canadian psychologist
163 Sidney Thornton 1954 American football player
164 Sidney Loeb 1917 American chemist
165 Sidney Bates 1921 Recipient of the Victoria Cross
166 Sidney V. Haas 1870 American physician
167 Sidney Bracey 1877 Australian-American actor
168 Sidney van den Bergh 1929 Canadian astronomer
169 Sidney Harris Cartoonist
170 Sidney Hickox 1895 American cinematographer
171 Sidney Miller 1980 American musician and record producer
172 Sidney Magal 1953 Brazilian singer, dancer and actor
173 Sidney Kohlsachs 1924
174 Sidney Earle Smith 1897 Canadian politician
175 Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 1955 American writer and filmmaker
176 Sidney Excell 1906 British Army officer
177 Sidney Marcus 1928 American politician
178 Sidney Smith 1877 American comic strip cartoonist
179 Sidney Pestka 1936 Polish academic
180 Sidney Clare 1892 American songwriter
181 Sidney Hertzberg 1922 American basketball player
182 Sidney Lens 1912 American labor leader
183 Sidney Greenbaum 1929 British linguist
184 Sidney Fine 1920 American historian
185 Sidney Kirkman 1895 British Army general
186 Sidney Hollis Radner 1919 American magician
187 Sidney Schmeltz 1989 Dutch footballer
188 Sidney Dillon 1812 American businessman
189 Sidney J. van den Bergh 1898 Dutch businessman, general and politician
190 Sidney Dekker Australian professor
191 Sidney Hunt 1896 British artist
192 Sidney Robertson Cowell 1903 American ethnographer
193 Sidney Perham 1819 American politician
194 Sidney Lau Sidney Lau wrote a series of textbooks for teaching Anglophones to speak Cantonese
195 Sidney G. Winter 1935 American economist
196 Sidney Arodin 1901 American musician
197 Sidney Painter 1902 American historian
198 Sidney Siegel 1916 American psychologist
199 Sidney Howe Short
200 Sidney de Jong 1979 Dutch baseball player