Sydney


Gender:
Origin: English
536 famous people named Sydney found on Wikipedia.
170051 female, 9178 male in US.
Most recent ranking: 165-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 23-th in year 2002
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.

Australian city, founded 1788 and named for British Home Secretary Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (1733-1800). The family name (also Sidney) is literally "dweller by the well-watered land," from Old English sid "side" + ieg "island."

Wide meadow; combine of sid (extensive, wide) and leg (island in a river, riverside meadow).

Famous People: 536 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Sydney Pollack 1934 American film director, producer and actor
2 Sydney Leroux 1990 Canadian-born American soccer player
3 Sydney Tamiia Poitier 1973 American actress
4 Sydney Penny 1971 American actress
5 Sydney Greenstreet 1879 Actor
6 Sydney Park 1997 American actress, comedian
7 Sydney McLaughlin 1999 American female hurdler
8 Sydney Schanberg 1934 American journalist
9 Sydney Bristow 1975
10 Sydney Lucas 2003 American actor, singer and television actor
11 Sydney Brenner 1927 South African biologist, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002
12 Sydney Lassick 1922 Actor
13 Sydney Newman 1917 Television producer
14 Sydney Sibilia 1981 Italian screenwriter and film producer
15 Sydney Biddle Barrows 1952 Management consultant, Madam, writer
16 Sydney J. Harris 1917 American journalist
17 Sydney Bromley 1909 British actor
18 Sydney Barnes 1873 Cricketer
19 Sydney White 1991 English actor and singer-songwriter
20 Sydney Andrews
21 Sydney Tafler 1916 British actor
22 Sydney Sierota 1997 USA singer
23 Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney 1733 British Viscount
24 Basil Sydney 1894 English actor
25 Sydney Camm 1893 English aeronautical engineer
26 Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens 1847 Officer in the Royal Navy, child of Victorian-era novelist Charles Dickens
27 Sydney Scotia 1997 American actress and dancer
28 Sydney Valpy Radley-Walters 1920 Canadian general
29 Sydney Youngblood 1960 American/German singer
30 Sydney Walsh 1961 Actress
31 Sydney Chaplin 1926 American film and theater actor
32 Robin Sydney 1984 American actress
33 Sydney Fox
34 Sydney Walker 1921 American actor
35 Sydney Lotterby 1926 British television director
36 Sydney Devine 1940 British singer
37 Sydney Forest American composer
38 Sydney Turing Barlow Lawford 1865
39 Sydney Johnson 1974 American basketball player-coach
40 Sydney Kentridge 1922 Lawyer and judge
41 Sydney Smith Lee 1802 US Navy officer
42 Sydney Sanches 1933 Brazilian writer
43 Sydney Taylor 1904 American writer
44 Sydney Omarr 1926 Astrologer
45 Sydney Samuelson 1925 British film commissioner
46 Sydney Sekeramayi 1944 Zimbabwean politician
47 Sydney Seymour Simpson 1856 Canadian politician
48 Sydney Parkinson 1745 Scottish Quaker, botanical illustrator and natural history artist
49 Sydney Olivier, 1st Baron Olivier 1859 British civil servant
50 Sydney Silverman 1895 British politician
51 Joan Sydney 1936 Actress
52 Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton 1853 British politician
53 Sydney de Kantzow 1914 Australian co-founder of Cathay Pacific
54 Sydney Guilaroff 1907 American hairdresser
55 Sydney Mufamadi 1959 South African politician
56 Sydney Maree 1956 Athletics competitor
57 Sydney Rowell 1894 Australian general
58 Sydney Eardley-Wilmot
59 Sydney Ringer 1835 British medical researcher
60 Sydney Pickrem 1997
61 Harry Sydney 1959 American football player
62 Sydney Shoemaker 1931 American philosopher
63 Sydney Blu 1977 Electronic musician
64 Sydney Johnson-Scharpf 2000 American artistic gymnast
65 Sydney Box 1907 Writer, screenwriter
66 Sydney Siame 1997 Zambian athletics competitor
67 Sydney Cockerell 1867 English curator and collector; museum director
68 Sydney Padua 1971 Graphics artist
69 Sydney Possuelo 1940 Brazilian explorer
70 Sydney Allard 1910 British racing driver
71 Sydney Sturgess 1915 British-Canadian actor
72 Sydney Wooderson 1914 British middle distance runner
73 Sydney Laurence 1865 American artist
74 Sydney Long 1871 Australian artist
75 Sydney Colson 1989 Basketball player
76 Sydney Carter 1990 Basketball player
77 Sydney Freeland 1980 American film director
78 Sydney Curnow Vosper 1866 English artist
79 Sydney Knowles 1921 British military scuba diver
80 Sydney Templeman, Baron Templeman 1920 British judge
81 Sydney Wilson 1990 English snooker player
82 Sydney Prior Hall 1842 British artist
83 Sydney Smirke 1798 British architect
84 Sydney E. Ahlstrom 1919 American historian
85 Sydney Goodsir Smith 1915 New Zealand writer
86 Sydney Perry 1991 Beauty pageant contestant
87 Sydney Grundy 1848 British dramatist
88 Sydney MacEwan 1908 Scottish Roman Catholic priest and tenor
89 Sydney Ball 1933 Australian painter, etcher, and teacher
90 Sydney Fremantle 1867 Royal Navy officer during the First World War
91 Sydney Dowse 1918 RAF officer
92 Sydney Onayemi 1937 DJ
93 Sydney Finkelstein American academic
94 Sydney James Bounds 1920 British writer
95 Grahame Sydney 1948 New Zealand painter
96 Sydney Lewis 1919 American businessman
97 Sydney Carline 1888 British painter
98 Sydney Howard Smith 1872 English badminton and tennis player
99 Sydney warburg American writer
100 Sydney Goldstein 1903 British mathematician noted for his contribution to fluid dynamics (1903-1989)
101 Sydney Chapman 1871 English economist and civil servant
102 John Townshend, 1st Earl Sydney 1805 British politician
103 Sydney Starr 1857 English impressionist painter (1857-1925)
104 Sydney Lamb 1929 Linguist, Native American languages, stratificational grammar, computational linguistics
105 Sydney Hobart Ball 1877
106 Sydney Halter 1905 Canadian football player
107 Sydney Robert Elliston 1870
108 Sydney Imbeau 1996 Canadian actress
109 Sydney Howard 1884 British actor
110 Sidney Howard Gay 1814 Abolitionist, journalist
111 Sydney Granville 1880 British opera singer and actor
112 Sydney Boehm 1908 American screenwriter
113 Sydney Deane 1863 Australian first-class cricketer and entertainer
114 Berenice Sydney 1944 British artist
115 Sydney Castle Roberts 1887 British writer
116 Sydney Banks 1917 Hollywood producer
117 Sydney Joseph Freedberg 1914 American art historian
118 Sydney Anderson 1881 American politician
119 Sydney Dacres 1805 Officer of the British Royal Navy
120 Sydney Frank Baseball team owner
121 Sydney Lipworth 1931 British businessman
122 Sydney Arnold, 1st Baron Arnold 1878 British politician
123 Sydney Nicholson 1875 British musician
124 Sydney M. Irmas 1925
125 Sydney Horler 1888 British writer
126 Sydney Cohen 1921 British chemist
127 Sydney Shields 1888 American actress
128 Sydney Gallonde French film producer and screenwriter
129 Sydney March 1876 British artist
130 Sydney Selwyn 1934 British microbiologist
131 Sydney Ure Smith 1887 Arts publisher and promoter
132 Sydney Beck 1906 American musician and musicologist
133 Sydney Caine 1902 British educator and economist
134 Sydney Townsend 1999 Canadian artistic gymnast
135 Sydney Carlin 1944 American politician
136 Sydney Lea American writer
137 Sydney George Hulme Beaman 1887 British artist
138 Sydney Checkland 1916 British economic historian
139 Sydney Nettleton Fisher 1906 Historian
140 Sydney Jacob 1879 Indian tennis player
141 Sydney Chilton Mewburn 1863 Canadian politician
142 Sydney Downey British hunter
143 Sydney Jones 1894 New Zealand politician
144 Sydney Gun-Munro 1916 Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
145 Sydney Hall African-American actor
146 Sydney Ayres 1879 Silent film actor, director, screenwriter
147 Sydney Lee 1866 Print-maker, painter, in Britain
148 Sydney J. Van Scyoc 1939 American writer
149 Sydney Skaife 1889 South African entomologist
150 Sydney Jordan 1928 Scottish comics artist
151 Sydney Jacobson, Baron Jacobson 1908 British Baron
152 Sydney Sparkes Orr 1914 British philosopher
153 Sydney Fairbrother 1872 British actress
154 Sydney Baynes 1879 British composer and conductor
155 Sydney Irving 1918 British politician
156 Sydney Elliott 1900 British newspaper editor
157 Sydney Thompson Dobell 1824 English poet and critic
158 Sydney Guillaume 1982
159 Sydney Stanhope, 6th Earl of Harrington 1845
160 Sydney Howard Vines 1849 British botanist
161 Sydney Mitchell 1856 British architect
162 Sydney Beaumont 1884 English footballer and manager
163 Sydney Crooks 1945 Jamaican musician
164 Sydney Spiesel American journalist
165 Sydney Courtauld 1840 British horticulturist
166 Sydney Holland, 2nd Viscount Knutsford 1855 British barrister and peer
167 Sydney Stern, 1st Baron Wandsworth 1845 British banker, Liberal Member of Parliament and philanthropist
168 Sydney L. Kirkby 1933 Australian explorer
169 Sydney Cooke Television character on 'Walker, Texas Ranger'
170 Sydney Paget 1857 British noble
171 Sydney G. Gumpertz 1879 United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
172 Sydney Emanuel Mudd I 1858 American politician
173 Sydney Pardon 1855 English cricket journalist
174 Sydney Emanuel Mudd II 1885 Maryland Congressman
175 Sydney Ewart Hollingworth 1899 British geologist
176 Sydney Richmond Burleigh 1853 American artist
177 Sydney John Smith 1892 Canadian politician
178 John Townshend, 2nd Viscount Sydney 1764 British Viscount
179 Sydney S. Woods 1917 American flying ace
180 Sydney Kamlager 1972
181 Sydney Ancher 1904 Australian architect
182 Sydney Pierrepont, 3rd Earl Manvers 1826 British politician
183 Sydney Evans 1915 British clergyman
184 Sydney Bennett 1905 Cricketer
185 Sydney Lough Thompson 1877 New Zealand painter
186 Sydney S. Reynolds 1943 American Mormon leader
187 Sydney Bernard Smith 1936 Irish poet
188 Sydney Watson 1903 Officer of the Order of the British Empire
189 Sydney S. Shulemson 1915 Canadian fighter pilot
190 Sydney Ewing 1995
191 Sydney Arthur Fisher 1850 Canadian politician
192 Sydney Raw 1898 Royal Navy admiral
193 Sydney Lipton 1905
194 Sydney Turner 1814 Church of England clergyman
195 Sydney Rogerson
196 Sydney Deamer 1891 Australian journalist
197 Sydney Grange 1912
198 Sydney Middleton 1884 Australian rugby union player
199 Sydney Copeman 1862 British doctor
200 Sydney Brooks 1872 British writer and critic