Top Celebrity Names Starting With Sidney

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   Sidney Poitier

   Age 85 Male
   

   Actor, Director, Author

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   Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE is a Bahamian American actor, film director, author, and diplomat. In 1963, Poitier became the first black person to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Lilies of the Field. The significance of this achievement was later bolstered in 1967 when he starred in three well-received films To Sir, with Love; In the Heat of the Night; and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, making him the top box office star of that year.… read more

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   Sidney Lumet

   1924 - 2011 Male
   

   Producer, Scriptwriter, Actor

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   'Sidney Lumet was an American director, producer and screenwriter with over 50 films to his credit. He was nominated for the Academy Award as Best Director for 12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Network (1976) and The Verdict (1982). He did not win an individual Academy Award, but he did receive an Academy Honorary Award and 14 of his films were nominated for various Oscars, such as Network, which was nominated for 10, winning 4.… read more

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   Sidney Crosby

   Age 24 Male
   

   Ice Hockey Centre

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   Sidney Patrick Crosby is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL). Crosby was drafted first overall by the Penguins out of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL). During his two-year major junior career with the Rimouski Océanic, he earned back-to-back CHL Player of the Year awards and led his club to the 2005 Memorial Cup final.… read more

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   Sidney Govou

   Age 32 Male
   

   Footballer

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   Sidney Rodrigue Noukpo Govou is a French international footballer of Beninese descent who currently plays for Evian Thonon Gaillard. Govou is a naturally attacking player but rarely plays as a striker, more commonly deployed as a winger. His main attribute is his pace. At the start of the 2009–10 season, Govou was given the captain's armband of Lyon after the departure of Juninho.… read more

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   Sidney Barthelemy

   Age 70 Male
   

   Politician

   
   

   Sidney John Barthelemy was an American political figure. He served as Democratic mayor of New Orleans from 1986 to 1994. The second African American to hold the New Orleans Mayoral chair, he was a member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1974 to 1978 and a member at-large of the New Orleans City Council from 1978 to 1986.… read more

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   Sidney Bechet

   1897 - 1959 Male
   

   Jazz Saxophonist, Clarinetist, and Composer

   
   

   Sidney Bechet was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He was one of the first important soloists in jazz (beating cornetist and trumpeter Louis Armstrong to the recording studio by several months and later playing duets with Armstrong), and was perhaps the first notable jazz saxophonist. Forceful delivery, well-constructed improvisations, and a distinctive, wide vibrato characterized Bechet's playing.… read more

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   Sidney Reilly

   1873 - 1925 Male
   

   Spy, Secret Agent, Military Person

   
   

   Lieutenant Sidney George Reilly, MC, famously known as the Ace of Spies, was a Jewish Russian-born adventurer and secret agent employed by Scotland Yard, the British Secret Service Bureau and later the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS). He is alleged to have spied for at least four nations.… read more

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   Sidney Miller

   Age 31 Male
   

   Musician / Producer

   
   

   Sidney Miller III, also known his production name of Speakerbomb, is an American record producer and musician. He was a founding member of the Los Angeles based band, Malbec, and was also a keyboardist in the Hip Hop group, The Knux. He is currently a producing and writing as a member of The Sharpshootaz production/songwriting team.… read more

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   Sidney Blumenthal

   Age 63 Male
   

   Politician, President of the United States, Writer

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   Sidney Blumenthal is a former aide to President of the United States Bill Clinton and a widely published American journalist, especially on American politics and foreign policy. Born in Chicago, he earned a BA in sociology from Brandeis University in 1969 and started his career in Boston as a journalist who wrote for The New Republic.… read more

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    Sidney Edgerton

    1818 - 1900 Male
    

    Union United States Army Officer

    
    

    Sidney Edgerton was a politician, lawyer, judge and teacher from Ohio. He served during the American Civil War, as a Squirrel Hunter. During this time, Edgerton served as a U.S. Congressman. In 1863, Abraham Lincoln appointed him the first Chief justice of the Idaho Territorial Court.… read more

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    Sidney Green

    Age 82 Male
    

    Politician

    
    

    Sidney Green is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He twice ran for the leadership of the New Democratic Party of Manitoba, served in the cabinet of Premier Edward Schreyer, and later formed the Progressive Party of Manitoba. Green was born into a Jewish family in the mostly working-class north end of Winnipeg, Manitoba. He graduated from the University of Manitoba's Law School, and subsequently worked as a labour lawyer.… read more

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    Sidney Sheinberg

    Age 77 Male
    

    Lawyer, Actress, Producer

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    Sidney "Sid" Jay Sheinberg is a lawyer and American entertainment executive. He is married to actress Lorraine Gary.

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    Sidney Smith

    1764 - 1840 Male
    

    Admiral, Naval Officer, Military Person

    
    

    Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith, KCB, GCTE was a British naval officer. Serving in the American and French revolutionary wars, he later rose to the rank of admiral. Napoleon Bonaparte, reminiscing later in his life, said of him: "That man made me miss my destiny".… read more

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    Sidney Glazier

    1916 - 2002 Male
    

    Producer, Film Maker, Actor

    
    

    Sidney Glazer was an American film producer best known for his work on the Mel Brooks film The Producers.

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    Sidney Hillman

    1887 - 1946 Male
    

    Labor Leader, Actor, Franklin

    
    

    Sidney Hillman was an American labor leader. Head of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, he was a key figure in the founding of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and in marshaling labor's support for Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Democratic Party.… read more

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    Sidney Meyers

    1906 - 1969 Male
    

    Editor, Winner, Producer

    
    

    Sidney Meyers was an American film director and editor. Sidney Meyers is best known for two documentary films: The Quiet One, which he wrote and directed, and for which he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay; and British Academy of Film and Television Arts winner The Savage Eye, which he co-directed, co-produced and co-scripted with Joseph Strick and Ben Maddow.… read more

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    Sidney Rigdon

    1793 - 1876 Male
    

    Missionary, Teacher, Editor

    
    

    Template:Infobox LDS biography]Sidney Rigdon was a leader during the early history of the Latter Day Saint movement.

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    Sidney Mashbir

    1891 - 1973 Male
    

    Us Army Intelligence Officer

    
    

    Sidney Forrester Mashbir was a senior officer in the United States Army who was primarily involved in military intelligence. Born in New York, he served in the Arizona Army National Guard during the Mexican-American Border War. Mashbir then held several posts in intelligence positions, taking credit for catching the first German spy in the United States, before departing for on a four-year assignment as a language officer to Japan in 1920.… read more

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    Sidney Dillon Ripley

    1913 - 2001 Male
    

    Politician, Ornithologist, Scientist

    
    

    Sidney Dillon Ripley was an American ornithologist and wildlife conservationist. He served as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1964-1984.

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    Sidney Prescott

    Female
    

    Actress, Ghostwriter

    
    

    Sidney Prescott is a fictional character and the primary protagonist of the Scream series. The character was created by Kevin Williamson and Wes Craven and is portrayed by Canadian actress Neve Campbell. She first appeared in Scream followed by three sequels: Scream 2 (1997), Scream 3 (2000) and Scream 4 (2011). The character appears in the Scream films as the target of a series of killers who adopt the Ghostface persona, a ghost mask and black cloak, to pursue her.… read more

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    Sidney Breese

    1800 - 1878 Male
    

    Politician

    
    

    Sidney Breese was a U.S. Senator from Illinois, Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, a forefather of Illinois, and "father of the Illinois Central Railroad".… read more