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Sidney Frank
Sidney Frank was an American spirits importer who founded Sidney Frank Importing Co. in 1972, created Grey Goose vodka, and sold it to Bacardi in 2004 for roughly $2 billion.
Sidney Gottlieb
Sidney Gottlieb (1918-1999), American biochemist and head of the CIA's Technical Services Division, ran the MKULTRA mind-control and LSD experimentation program (authorized 1953), later destroyed its records in 1973 and testified to the Church Committee.
Sidney Govou
Sidney Govou (Sidney Rodrigue Noukpo Govou), born 1979, French forward; Lyon 1997-2010, seven straight Ligue 1 titles 2002-2008, 412 apps, 64 goals; 49 France caps, 2006 World Cup finalist.
Sidney H. Ingbar
Sidney H. Ingbar was an American endocrinologist, Chief of Endocrinology at Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard professor, who published over 350 articles on thyroid function and led the Endocrine Society.
Sidney H. Stein
Sidney H. Stein, born in 1945, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Southern District of New York since 2010.
Sidney Harman
Sidney Harman (1918–2011) was an American businessman who co-founded Harman Kardon in 1953, built Harman International into a global automotive audio supplier, and bought Newsweek in 2010.
Sidney Hecht
Sidney M. Hecht (born 1944) is an American chemist at Arizona State University who helped develop the cancer drug Hycamtin and studies tRNA chemistry and unnatural amino acids.
Sidney Howard
Sidney Coe Howard (1891-1939), American playwright and screenwriter; Pulitzer Prize for They Knew What They Wanted (1925) and first posthumous Oscar for the Gone with the Wind screenplay.
Sidney Irving Smith
Sidney Irving Smith (1843–1926) was an American zoologist and carcinologist, professor of comparative anatomy at Yale University, and an authority on the marine crustaceans of the western Atlantic.
Sidney J. Green
Sidney J. Green is an American rock-mechanics engineer who founded the Salt Lake City firm TerraTek and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.
Sidney J. Winawer
Sidney J. Winawer is an American gastroenterologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, known for leading the National Polyp Study, which showed removing polyps prevents colorectal cancer.
Sidney Lanier High School (Montgomery, Alabama)
Sidney Lanier High School was a public high school in Montgomery, Alabama, opened in 1910, named for the poet Sidney Lanier, and closed in May 2024.
Sidney Leibovich
Sidney Leibovich, born in 1939, is an American fluid dynamicist and Cornell professor emeritus, known for his theory of Langmuir circulations and vortex breakdown, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1993.
Sidney Leskowitz
Sidney Leskowitz is an immunologist known for work on delayed hypersensitivity and hapten–carrier immunochemistry at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard, and Tufts from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Sidney Luft
Sidney (Sid) Luft, born Michael Sidney Luft (1915–2005), American film producer and Judy Garland's third husband and manager; produced A Star Is Born (1954) and her Palace comeback; memoir Judy and I (2017).
Sidney Lumet
Sidney Lumet (1924–2011), American film director of 12 Angry Men, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, and The Verdict; New York-based, four-time Best Director nominee, Honorary Oscar 2005.
Sidney Metzger
Sidney Metzger (1917–2011) was an American communications engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976, who worked on secure wartime radio, early satellites, and INTELSAT at COMSAT.
Sidney Moncrief
Sidney Moncrief (born 1957, Little Rock) is an American retired NBA shooting guard, Arkansas Razorbacks 'Triplets' star, fifth pick of the 1979 draft, 10 seasons with Milwaukee Bucks, first two Defensive Player of the Year winners (1983, 1984), five-time All-Star, 2019 Hall of Fame inductee.
Sidney Morin
Sidney Morin, born 1995, is an American ice hockey defenseman for the Minnesota Frost of the PWHL who won Olympic gold with the United States at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Sidney Myer Music Bowl
Sidney Myer Music Bowl, "the Bowl", is an outdoor bandshell in Melbourne's Kings Domain, opened 12 February 1959, funded by a £200,000 Sidney Myer Fund gift, designed by Barry Patten with engineer Bill Irwin as a pioneering tensile cable structure, capacity 13,000.
Sidney Nagel
Sidney Nagel, also known as Sidney R. Nagel, is an American experimental physicist at the University of Chicago known for work on jamming, granular materials, and the glass transition.
Sidney P. Colowick
Sidney P. Colowick (1916–1985) was an American biochemist who worked on glucose metabolism, described hexokinase and NADH's structure, and co-founded the reference series Methods in Enzymology.
Sidney Paget
Sidney Paget (Sidney Edward Paget, 1860-1908), British illustrator for The Strand Magazine whose 356 Sherlock Holmes drawings, deerstalker and Inverness cape, defined the detective's iconic image.
Sidney Pestka
Sidney Pestka (1936–2016) was an American biochemist known as the "Father of Interferon" for first purifying and cloning interferon and developing the recombinant drug Roferon A.
Sidney Phillips
Sidney Clarke Phillips Jr. (born September 2, 1924), Mobile, Alabama Marine, 81mm mortarman in H Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines at Guadalcanal and Cape Gloucester; childhood friend of Eugene Sledge, later family physician, memoirist of You'll Be Sor-ree, and a figure in The War and The Pacific.
Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier (1927–2022), Bahamian-American actor, director, and civil rights activist; first Black man to win the Best Actor Oscar (Lilies of the Field, 1963) and 1968's top US box-office draw.
Sidney Powell
Sidney Powell, American attorney and former federal prosecutor from Dallas; represented Michael Flynn, filed the 2020 "Kraken" election-fraud lawsuits against Dominion, was sanctioned, sued for defamation, and pleaded guilty in Georgia in 2023.
Sidney Prescott
Sidney Prescott is the fictional final girl protagonist of the Scream horror franchise, created by Kevin Williamson and played by Neve Campbell in five films, departing over pay before Scream 7 centers her return.
Sidney R. Kushner
Sidney R. Kushner is a bacterial geneticist and molecular biologist at the University of Georgia, known for establishing how RNase E and RNase P mature transfer RNA in E. coli.
Sidney R. Thomas
Sidney R. Thomas, also known as Sidney Runyan Thomas, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2023.