List of Famous people named Sidney

Sidney Jones IV is an American football cornerback for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Washington.

Sidney Aparecido Ramos da Silva, commonly known as Sidão, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.

Sidney Rodrigue Noukpo Govou is a French former professional footballer who last played for Limonest in the Championnat de France Amateur 2. He played mainly as a winger, but occasionally was used as a striker. He holds the record for most Ligue 1 titles won (seven), along with Hervé Revelli and Jean-Michel Larqué of Saint-Étienne, as well as Thiago Silva and Marco Verratti of Paris Saint–Germain, and his own former teammates Grégory Coupet and Juninho of Lyon.

Sidney Charles Cooke is an English convicted child molester and serial killer serving two life sentences. He was nicknamed Hissing Sid by colleagues, and described by The Guardian newspaper in 1999 as "Britain's most notorious paedophile".

Sidney Coe Howard was an American playwright, dramatist and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925 and a posthumous Academy Award in 1940 for the screenplay for Gone with the Wind.

Sidney Friede is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Dunajská Streda.

Sidney David Drell was an American theoretical physicist and arms control expert.

Sidney Joseph Furie is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for his extensive work in both British and American cinema between the 1960s and early 1980s. Like his contemporaries Norman Jewison and Ted Kotcheff, he was one of the earliest Canadian directors to achieve mainstream critical and financial success outside their native country at a time when its film industry was virtually nonexistent. He won a BAFTA Film Award and was nominated for a Palme d'Or for his work on the acclaimed spy thriller The Ipcress File starring Michael Caine.

The Unknown Child refers to the initially unidentified body of Sidney Leslie Goodwin, a 19-month-old toddler who was recovered by the Mackay-Bennett after sinking of the RMS Titanic. For almost a century, Goodwin's gravestone in the Fairview Cemetery read "Erected to the memory of an unknown child whose remains were recovered after the disaster to the Titanic April 15th 1912".

Sidney Sheldon was an American writer, director and producer.