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Siculo-Arabic
Siculo-Arabic, or Sicilian Arabic, was an Arabic dialect variety spoken in Sicily from the ninth to the thirteenth century; it served as the ancestor of Maltese.
Sicyon Sulcus
Sicyon Sulcus, a 2,125-km grooved-terrain feature (sulcus) on Jupiter's moon Ganymede, IAU-named in 1979 for the Greek city where Ganymede and Hebe were worshipped as rain-givers.
Sid and Marty Krofft
Sid and Marty Krofft were Canadian-born puppeteer brothers whose company Sid & Marty Krofft Pictures created 1970s Saturday-morning shows H.R. Pufnstuf, Land of the Lost, and Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, plus Donny & Marie.
Sid and Nancy
Sid and Nancy: 1986 British biopic by Alex Cox (with Abbe Wool) starring Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb as Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen; Roger Deakins shot it, Joe Strummer scored it.
Sid Atkinson
Sid Atkinson (Sidney James Montford Atkinson, 1901-1977), South African hurdler from Durban; 110 m hurdles silver at Paris 1924, Olympic gold at Amsterdam 1928 in 14.8, and British AAA 120 yards hurdles champion.
Sid Bowman
Sid Bowman (Sidney Shepherd Bowman, 1907-1986), American triple jumper, two-time US Olympian (Amsterdam 1928, Los Angeles 1932), LSU track and football star nicknamed "Snaky", later Louisiana public servant.
Sid Caesar
Sid Caesar (Isaac Sidney Caesar, 1922-2014), American comedian and star of Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour, pioneer of live TV sketch comedy whose writers included Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Carl Reiner, and Woody Allen.
Sid Catena
Sid Catena is an 81.4 km crater chain (catena) on Jupiter's moon Callisto, centered at 49.2° N, 103.9° W. Named for a Norse river, IAU-approved 1997; likely scars of a comet tidally split by Jupiter.
Sid Edwards
Sid Edwards (Emile "Sid" Edwards), Republican Mayor-President of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, since January 2025; former Istrouma High football coach who upset Sharon Weston Broome; not the Seattle mayor Frank Edwards or Gov. Edwin Edwards.
Sid Eudy
Sid Eudy (Sidney Raymond Eudy, 1960–2024), known as Sid Vicious, Sid Justice, and Sycho Sid, was an American professional wrestler, two-time WWE Champion and two-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion, WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2026.
Sid Gilman
Sid Gilman (Sidney Gilman, born 1932) is an American neurologist who chaired the University of Michigan's neurology department from 1977 to 2004 and pioneered PET imaging of brain disorders.
Sid Haig
Sid Haig, born Sidney Eddie Mosesian (1939–2019), was an American character actor who played villains in 1960s and 1970s exploitation films and Captain Spaulding in Rob Zombie's horror films.
Sid Hinds
Sid Hinds (Sidney Rae Hinds, 1900-1991), American Army officer and Olympic rifle shooter; won 1924 Paris gold in men's team free rifle, later a brigadier general decorated in World War II.
Sid James
Sid James, born Solomon Joel Cohen and also known as Sidney James, was a South African-born comedy actor known for the Carry On films and Hancock's Half Hour.
Sid Johnson
Sid Johnson (Sidney B. Johnson), American tug-of-war competitor; won gold at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics for the Milwaukee Athletic Club though actually from Chicago; nothing else known of his life.
Sid Mallya
Sid Mallya, also known as Sidharth Mallya, is an American-based actor and the son of Indian businessman Vijay Mallya, best known for the 2016 film Brahman Naman.
Sid Meier
Sid Meier (born 1954) is an American game designer who co-founded MicroProse (1982) and Firaxis (1996), created Pirates! and the Civilization series, and is known for the maxim that a game is a series of interesting decisions.
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (SMAC) is Firaxis's 1999 turn-based 4X strategy game published by EA, a Civilization spin-off set on Planet/Chiron with seven ideological factions, social engineering, mindworms, and the Alien Crossfire expansion; PC Gamer rated it 98%.
Sid Meier's Pirates!
Sid Meier's Pirates! is an open-world pirate game series set in the 17th-century Caribbean, created by Sid Meier at MicroProse in 1987 and remade by Firaxis in 2004 for PC, Xbox, PSP, Wii, and iOS.
Sid Owen
Sid Owen (born David John Sutton, 1972) is an English actor best known as Ricky Butcher in BBC's EastEnders (1988-2023, on and off), with a 1997 wedding episode drawing 22 million viewers; also a former singer and 2021 memoirist.
Sid Sheth
Sid Sheth is an Indian-born semiconductor executive who co-founded d-Matrix in 2019 and leads the Santa Clara, California company as CEO and president, focused on AI inference chips.
Sid Sriram
Sid Sriram (Sidharth Sriram, born 1990, Chennai) is a Carnatic-trained playback singer, songwriter, and composer for Tamil and Telugu cinema. Debut "Adiye" (Kadal, 2013) with A.R. Rahman; albums Entropy (2019) and Def Jam's English Sidharth (2023).
Sid the Science Kid
Sid the Science Kid is an American CGI-animated PBS KIDS preschool series (2008-2012) by The Jim Henson Company and KCET, teaching science readiness to ages 3-6 via the PrePS curriculum, inquiry skills, and its 60 episodes, movie, and merchandise.
Sid Vicious
Sid Vicious (John Simon Ritchie, 1957-1979), English bassist for the Sex Pistols from 1977, replaced Glen Matlock but played little studio bass; charged in Nancy Spungen's 1978 death, he died of a heroin overdose in New York on February 2, 1979.
Sid Waddell
Sid Waddell (1940–2012), British darts commentator known as "the Voice of Darts" and "the Geordie Lip"; BBC then Sky Sports, Indoor League producer, Sid Waddell Trophy namesake.
Sid Watkins
Sid Watkins (Eric Sidney Watkins, 1928–2012), "The Prof", English neurosurgeon and Formula 1's first full-time doctor and FIA medical delegate from 1978; revolutionized F1 medical care and safety, chaired the Expert Advisory Safety Committee after Imola 1994.
Sid Wilson
Sid Wilson, also known as DJ Starscream and #0, was Slipknot's turntablist and keyboardist from 1998 until the band announced his departure in August 2026; he also recorded with Look Outside Your Window.
Sida
Sida (fanpetals) is a pantropical genus of herbs and shrubs in Malvaceae, tribe Malveae, with about 200-277 species, type species Sida rhombifolia; weedy, medicinal, and polyphyletic per recent phylogenetics.
Sidama Liberation Movement
The Sidama Liberation Movement is an ethnic political organization founded in the mid-1970s to seek self-determination for the Sidama people of south-central Ethiopia, waging guerrilla war against the Derg regime.
Sidama statehood movement
The Sidama statehood movement was the campaign by the Sidama people of southern Ethiopia to make their zone Ethiopia's tenth regional state, approved by a 2019 referendum.