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Sidi Daoui
Circuit Sidi Daoui de Oued Zem (سيدي الضاوي), also called Circuit d'Oued Zem, is a 4.480 km permanent race circuit in Khouribga Province, Morocco, built by OCP on a former phosphate mine, seeking FIA homologation and hosting the Morocco Historic Grand Prix since 2024.
Sidi Ibrahim Muhammad Yakut Khan III
Sidi Ibrahim Muhammad Yakut Khan III, Nawab Sidi Ibrahim Khan III of Janjira (1848-1879), African-descent ruler of the Konkan princely state; deposed by sardars in 1870, restored by Britain; succeeded in 1879 by Sidi Ahmad Khan.
Sidi Krir power plant
Sidi Krir power plant is a natural gas-fired power station of about 2,072.6 MW at Sidi Krir on Egypt's Mediterranean coast, built in three stages between the late 1990s and 2010.
Sidi Yahya al-Tadelsi
Sidi Yahya al-Tadelsi, also written al-Tadallisi, was a fifteenth-century Muslim scholar and Sufi saint of Timbuktu, remembered as the city's patron saint and first imam of its Sidi Yahya mosque.
Sidi-Kacem
Sidi-Kacem (سيدي قاسم) is a city in northwestern Morocco and the administrative center of Sidi Kacem province, founded around 1699 as a shrine settlement and chief town since 1981.
Sidi-Saïd
Sidi-Saïd (Ahmed Djedidi), Tunisia: probable site of the Roman road station Elephantaria in Africa Proconsularis, shown as Clefantaria on the Tabula Peutingeriana near Medjez el Bab.
Siding (construction)
Siding, also known as wall cladding, is the exterior wall covering that sheds rain and protects a building's walls; common materials include wood, vinyl, and fiber cement.
Sidley Austin
Sidley Austin LLP, formerly Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, is a global law firm founded in Chicago in 1866, with about 2,300 lawyers in 22 offices and $3.1 billion in revenue.
Sidney A. Bowhill
Sidney A. Bowhill was a radio scientist who founded the Aeronomy Laboratory at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and directed it for 24 years, work recognized by election to the National Academy of Engineering.
Sidney A. Fitzwater
Sidney A. Fitzwater, born Sidney Allen Fitzwater in 1953, is a senior United States district judge of the Northern District of Texas, appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1986.
Sidney Altman
Sidney Altman was a Canadian American molecular biologist at Yale who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering that RNA can act as a catalyst.
Sidney Barthelemy
Sidney Barthelemy is an American Democratic member of the Louisiana Senate from the 3rd district, elected in a 2026 special election after Joe Bouie's resignation.
Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet was an American jazz soprano saxophonist and clarinetist from New Orleans, one of jazz's first important soloists and a national hero in France.
Sidney Blackmer
Sidney Blackmer (Sidney Alderman Blackmer, 1895–1973) was an American actor from Salisbury, North Carolina; Tony winner for Come Back, Little Sheba, ten-time portrayer of Theodore Roosevelt, and Roman Castevet in Rosemary's Baby.
Sidney Blumenthal
Sidney Stone Blumenthal (born 1948, Chicago), American journalist and Clinton adviser: senior adviser to Bill Clinton 1997-2000, Hillary Clinton confidant, author of The Clinton Wars and the five-volume Political Life of Abraham Lincoln.
Sidney C. Smith
Sidney C. Smith is an American cardiologist at UNC Chapel Hill known for writing the ACC/AHA cardiovascular guidelines and a past president of the American Heart Association.
Sidney C. Werner
Sidney C. Werner was an American endocrinologist at Columbia University who classified the eye changes of Graves' disease and edited The Thyroid, first published in 1955.
Sidney Cohen
Sidney Cohen is an American gastroenterologist and clinical investigator of gastrointestinal motility who led gastroenterology at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University, and received the American Gastroenterological Association's 2002 Julius M. Friedenwald Medal.
Sidney Coleman
Sidney Richard Coleman (1937–2007) was an American theoretical physicist and Harvard professor, one of the leading quantum field theorists, known for the Coleman–Weinberg mechanism and false vacuum decay.
Sidney Cooke
Sidney Cooke (born 1927), "Hissing Sid", English leader of the Dirty Dozen paedophile ring; jailed 1989 for Jason Swift's manslaughter, paroled 1998, given two life sentences in 1999, and repeatedly denied parole at HMP Wakefield.
Sidney Crosby
Sidney Crosby (born 1987, Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian ice hockey center, Pittsburgh Penguins captain since 2007, drafted first overall in 2005. Three Stanley Cups (2009, 2016, 2017), two Olympic golds (2010, 2014), Penguins' all-time points leader.
Sidney Daniels
Sidney Edward Daniels (1893-1983), English Titanic survivor, third class steward who jumped overboard and lived on upturned collapsible B; last surviving crew member, later served on Olympic and Berengaria.
Sidney Darlington
Sidney Darlington (1906–1997) was an American electrical engineer and circuit theorist at Bell Laboratories from 1929 to 1971, known for the Darlington transistor pair and insertion-loss filter synthesis.
Sidney Dillon Ripley
Sidney Dillon Ripley was an American ornithologist and conservationist, an expert on the birds of India, and eighth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1964 to 1984, receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985.
Sidney Drell
Sidney Drell (1926–2016) was an American theoretical physicist at Stanford University and SLAC, known for the Drell–Yan process and four decades advising the US government on nuclear weapons policy.
Sidney E. Grossberg
Sidney E. Grossberg is an American physician-scientist and virologist who chaired microbiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin from 1966 to 1997 and studied interferons.
Sidney E. Scisson
Sidney E. Scisson was an American civil engineer and principal officer of Fenix & Scisson, a Tulsa, Oklahoma heavy-construction firm that excavated underground caverns for propane and butane storage.
Sidney F. Velick
Sidney F. Velick (1913–2007) was an American biochemist known for fluorescence studies of how enzymes bind coenzymes and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1981.
Sidney Fleischer
Sidney Fleischer (1930–2016) was an American biochemist at Vanderbilt University whose laboratory purified the ryanodine receptor from muscle and showed it is the calcium release channel that initiates contraction.
Sidney Fox
Sidney Fox (born Sidney Liefer, 1907–1942) was an American stage and film actress of the early 1930s, a WAMPAS Baby Star discovered by Carl Laemmle Jr., who debuted in Bad Sister opposite Bette Davis and died at 34 in Beverly Hills.