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Sidney Reilly
Sidney Reilly, born Sigmund Rosenblum, the "Ace of Spies," was a British MI6 agent against Bolshevik Russia, inspiration for James Bond, executed by the OGPU in Moscow in 1925.
Sidney Rice
Sidney Rice (born 1986, Gaffney, SC) is a former NFL wide receiver, South Carolina product, drafted 44th overall by Minnesota in 2007; 2009 Pro Bowl with 1,312 yards, later a Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl champion; retired 2013 after a torn ACL.
Sidney Robinson
Sidney John Robinson (1876–1959), English steeplechase and long-distance runner for Northampton C∾ won gold, silver, and bronze at the 1900 Paris Olympics, distinct from the American miler Sid Robinson of 1928.
Sidney Sheldon
Sidney Sheldon was an American writer and novelist who became one of the world's bestsellers after publishing his first book at age 53 and winning multiple major awards.
Sidney Strickland
Sidney Strickland is a molecular biologist at Rockefeller University known for linking the protease plasmin to Alzheimer's disease and for deaning graduate studies from 2000 to 2022.
Sidney Swann
Sidney Swann was a Manx-born British rower and Anglican clergyman who won Olympic gold in the 1912 eights and silver in 1920, later serving King George VI.
Sidney Udenfriend
Sidney Udenfriend was an American biochemist who defined collagen proline hydroxylation, identified tyrosine hydroxylase, and was the first director of the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology.
Sidney van den Bergh
Sidney van den Bergh, born in the Netherlands in 1929, is a Canadian astronomer known for the DDO galaxy luminosity classification, supernova-host correlations, and a shared 2014 Gruber Cosmology Prize.
Sidney Verba
Sidney Verba (1932–2019) was an American political scientist at Harvard whose research on political participation and civic inequality helped define the modern study of who takes part in politics.
Sidney W. Benson
Sidney W. Benson (1918–2011) was an American physical chemist at USC and SRI International whose group additivity rules for estimating molecular thermochemical properties became a standard tool of chemical kinetics.
Sidney Weinhouse
Sidney Weinhouse (1909–2001) was an American biochemist at Temple University who used isotopic tracers to study fatty acid oxidation and ketone bodies, and challenged Warburg's theory that cancer stems from defective respiration.
Sidney Yip
Sidney Yip, born 1936 in Beijing, is a Chinese-born materials scientist and MIT professor emeritus known for establishing molecular simulation as a core method in materials science.
Sidney, British Columbia
Sidney, British Columbia: a town of 12,318 on the Saanich Peninsula, 26 km north of Victoria, incorporated 1952 (town 1967), named for Lt. Frederick William Sidney; W̱SÁNEĆ site SET,TINES; ferry and airport hub with 468-unit housing target.
Sidny Lopes Cabral
Sidny Lopes Cabral, Cape Verdean full-back born 2002 in Rotterdam; played German lower leagues, Benfica, now Trabzonspor; scored FIFA's 2026 World Cup Goal of the Tournament vs Argentina.
Sidoarjo mud flow
The Sidoarjo mud flow, known in Indonesia as Lumpur Lapindo or Lusi, is a mud volcano eruption in East Java, Indonesia, that began in May 2006 and continues today.
Sidoloucum
Sidoloucum, also reconstructed as Siduolocum, was a Gallo-Roman vicus of the Aedui at modern Saulieu, Côte-d'Or, on the Lyon–Boulogne road; attested in the Antonine Itinerary, Peutinger Table, Ammianus, and Autun milestones.
Sidon
Sidon (Saida), ancient Phoenician port city in southern Lebanon between Tyre and Beirut; Bronze Age origins, British Museum College Site excavations, royal necropolis sarcophagi, and Lebanon's largest smaller public port.
Sidon Flexus
Sidon Flexus is a cycloidal arc-chain ridge (flexus) on Jupiter's moon Europa, IAU-approved in 1979, about 1133 km across near latitude -66.4, named for Sidon, another name for Tyre, Europa's mythical birthplace.
Sidon sequence
A Sidon sequence, also called a B₂-sequence or Sidon set, is a sequence of integers in which all pairwise sums are distinct, introduced by Simon Sidon in 1932.
Sidonia Fagarasan
Sidonia Fagarasan is an immunologist at RIKEN in Japan whose research established how gut bacteria and the immune system regulate each other through the antibody IgA.
Sidónio Pais
Sidónio Pais (Sidónio Bernardino Cardoso da Silva Pais, 1872–1918), Portuguese artillery officer, mathematician, and president: led the December 1917 coup, founded the presidentialist República Nova, elected by direct male suffrage in April 1918, assassinated at Rossio Station in December 1918.
Sidônio Palmeira
Sidônio Palmeira is a Brazilian politician and advertising publicist from Bahia who ran Lula's winning 2022 presidential campaign and has been Minister of Social Communication since January 2025.
Sidonius Apollinaris
Sidonius Apollinaris was a Gallo-Roman aristocrat, poet, and bishop of Clermont from about 470 whose poems and letters are the most detailed surviving source for fifth-century Gaul.
Sidor Kovpak
Sidor Kovpak (Сидір Артемійович Ковпак) was a Soviet partisan commander in World War II who led the Sumy partisan formation on five long raids behind German lines.
Sidorovka Burial Ground
Sidorovka Burial Ground (Могильник Сидоровка), a Sargat culture early Iron Age kurgan cemetery in the Omsk Irtysh region, published by Matyushchenko and Tataurova in 1997, with an elite warrior burial and imported Central Asian goods; distinct from the Sidorovo hillfort on the Seversky Donets.
Sidqa (king of Ashkelon)
Sidqa, also written Ṣidqia or Sidqia, was a Philistine king of Ashkelon who joined the anti-Assyrian coalition of 701 BC and was deported to Assyria by Sennacherib.
Sidrat al-Muntaha (سدرة المنتهى)
Sidrat al-Muntaha (سدرة المنتهى), the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary, is a celestial lote tree of Qur'an 53:14 marking the boundary beyond which no created being passes.
SIDS
SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) is the unexplained death of an infant under 1 year after complete investigation; a SUID subcategory. Back sleeping, launched via the 1994 Back to Sleep campaign, cut US SIDS rates over 50%.
Sidse Babett Knudsen
Sidse Babett Knudsen (born 1968, Copenhagen) is a Danish actress trained at Paris's Théatre de l'Ombre; screen debut Let's Get Lost (1997). Known for Borgen's Birgitte Nyborg, Westworld's Theresa Cullen, a César for Courted, and a Bodil for Sons (Vogter).
Siduri Mons
Siduri Mons is a 105-km-wide mons on Venus at 42.30°S, 297.30°E, IAU-approved in 1997 and named for the Babylonian goddess of wine and wisdom, mapped by Magellan radar.