Sydney (name)

Notable people and characters named Sydney include:

Given name[]

• Sydney Allard (1910–1966), British car company founder
• Sydney Ancher (1904–1978), Australian architect
• Sydney Atkinson (1901–1977), South African athlete
• Sydney D. Bailey (1916-1995), English author and pacifist
• Sydney Barnes (1873–1967), English cricketer
• Sydney Bennett (born 1992), also known as Syd tha Kyd, American hip-hop producer
• Sydney Brenner (1927-2019), South African biologist
• Sydney Savory Buckman (1860–1929), British palaeontologist
• Sydney Camm, (1893–1966), English aeronautical engineer
• Sydney Chaplin (1885–1965), English actor
• Sydney Earle Chaplin (1926–2009), American actor
• Syd Cohen, American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Sydney Dacres (1805–1884), English admiral
• Sydney "Syd" Einfeld (1909–1995), Australian politician and Jewish community leader
• Sydney F. Foster (1893–1973), Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
• Sydney Fremantle (1867–1958), English admiral
• Sydney Greenstreet (1879–1954), English actor
• Sydney Grundy (1848–1914), English dramatist
• Sydney Gun-Munro (1916–2007), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines politician
• Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986), American journalist
• Sydney Horler (1888–1954), British novelist
• Sydney Jacobson, Baron Jacobson (1908–1988), British journalist
• Sydney Kentridge (born 1922), South African lawyer and judge
• Sydney Lamb (born 1929), American linguist
• Sydney Laurence (1865–1940), American painter
• Sydney Leroux Dwyer (born 1990), Canada-born American soccer player
• Sydney Magruder Washington, American ballet dancer and blogger
• Sydney Mancasola, 21st-century American opera soprano
• Sydney Mufamadi (born 1959), South African politician
• Sydney Newman (1917–1997), Canadian film and television producer
• Sydney Omarr (1926–2003), American astrologist
• Sydney Park (actress) (born 1997), American actress and comedian
• Sydney Parkinson (1745–1771), Scottish illustrator
• Sydney Penny (born 1971), American actress
• Sydney Tamiia Poitier (born 1973), Bahamanian-American actress, daughter of actor Sidney Poitier
• Sydney Pollack (1934–2008), American film actor
• Sydney Possuelo (born 1940), Brazilian explorer and ethnographer
• Sydney Ringer (1836–1910), British pharmacologist
• Sydney Rossman (born 1995), American professional ice hockey player with the Connecticut Whale of the Premier Hockey Federation
• Sydney Schanberg (born 1934), American journalist
• Sydney Scotia (born 1997), American actress and dancer
• Sydney Sekeramayi (born 1944), Zimbabwean politician
• Sydney Shoemaker (born 1931), American philosopher
• Sydney Skaife (1889–1976), South African entomologist
• Sydney Sierota (born 1997), lead singer of Echosmith
• Sydney Silverman (1895–1968), British politician
• Sydney Smirke (1798–1877), English architect
• Sydney Smith (1771–1845), English writer
• Sydney Taylor (1904–1978), American author
• Sydney James Van Pelt (1908–1976), Australian medical practitioner
• Sydney J. Van Scyoc (born 1939), American science fiction writer
• Sydney Rae White (born 1991), English actress and singer
• Sydney de Zoysa (1909-1994), Sri Lankan Sinhala police officer

Surname[]

• Algernon Sydney (1623–1683), English politician
• Berenice Sydney (1944–1983), English artist
• Grahame Sydney (born 1948), New Zealand artist
• Harry Sydney (born 1959), American football player
• Joan Sydney (born 1936), English actress
• Robin Sydney (born 1984), American actress

Fictional characters[]

• Sydney Andrews, fictional character in the television series Melrose Place
• Sydney Bristow, fictional character in the television series Alias
• Sydney Carton, fictional character in the 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• Sydney Drew, fictional character in the television series Power Rangers: S.P.D
• Sydney Fox, fictional character in the television series Relic Hunter
• Sydney Losstarot, fictional character in the video game Vagrant Story
• Sydney, one of The Pretender characters in the television series
• Kevin Sydney, fictional character in the X-Men comic series
• Sydney Novak, main character in I Am Not Okay With This
• Sydney O. Sargent, main character of horror fiction podcast, .

See also[]

• Sidney (surname)
• Sidney (given name)

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