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- Sydney Grace Ann Sierota (born April 21, 1997) is the lead singer and keyboardist of American alternative pop band Echosmith.
- 209/12/1997Sydney Sweeney (born September 12, 1997) is an American actress best known for her roles as Haley Caren on In The Vault, Emaline Addario on the Netflix series Everything Sucks!, and as Eden in the Hulu series The Handmaid's Tale. Sweeney also appeared in the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects starring Amy Adams.More Sydney Sweeney
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- 302/20/1927Sidney Poitier, born on February 20, 1927, in Miami, Florida, is a monumental figure in the Hollywood film industry. The son of Bahamian farmers, Poitier grew up in poverty but carved a path for himself in the world of acting against all odds. His journey from the tomato farms of The Bahamas to the glitzy streets of Hollywood is awe-inspiring and solidifies his status as a beacon of determination and resilience. Poitier's acting career began on the stage in New York before he transitioned to films in the early 1950s. With memorable roles in films like No Way Out (1950), Cry, the Beloved Country (1951), and Blackboard Jungle (1955), Poitier quickly established himself as a talented actor. Still, it was his performance in Lilies of the Field (1963) that etched his name in history. Winning the Academy Award for Best Actor for this role, Poitier became the first Black man to receive this prestigious honor, breaking racial barriers in the predominantly white Hollywood industry. Outside of acting, Poitier has demonstrated his skills as a director, helming successful films like Stir Crazy (1980) and Ghost Dad (1990). In 2002, he was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, recognizing his enduring contribution to cinema. Beyond his professional achievements, Poitier has been an active advocate for civil rights and racial equality, using his influence to push for societal change. In essence, Sidney Poitier is not just an actor or a director; he's a trailblazer whose impact extends far beyond the silver screen.More Sidney Poitier
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- 405/14/1897Sidney Bechet (May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He was one of the first important soloists in jazz, beating trumpeter Louis Armstrong to the recording studio by several months. His erratic temperament hampered his career, and not until the late 1940s did he earn wide acclaim.
- 509/21/1957Sidney Alvin Moncrief (born September 21, 1957) is an American retired professional basketball player. As an NCAA college basketball player from 1975 to 1979, Moncrief played for the University of Arkansas Razorbacks, leading them to the 1978 Final Four and a win in the NCAA Consolation Game versus #6 Notre Dame. Nicknamed Sid the Squid, Sir Sid, and El Sid, Moncrief went on to play 11 seasons in the National Basketball Association, including ten seasons with the Milwaukee Bucks. He was a five-time NBA All-Star and won the first two NBA Defensive Player of the Year awards in 1983 and 1984.More Sidney Moncrief
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- 608/07/1987Sidney Patrick Crosby (born August 7, 1987) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who serves as captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL). Nicknamed "Sid the Kid" and dubbed "The Next One", Crosby was selected first overall by the Penguins in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest hockey players of all time. Crosby debuted in the NHL during the 2005–06 season, recording 102 points and finishing as runner-up for the Calder Memorial Trophy as the NHL Rookie of the Year. By his second season, he led the NHL with 120 points to capture the Art Ross Trophy, becoming the youngest player and the only teenager to win a scoring title in any major North American sports league. That same season, Crosby won the Hart Memorial Trophy as the league's most valuable player (MVP) and the Lester B. Pearson Award for most outstanding player as judged by his peers. He started the 2007–08 season with the team's captaincy and subsequently led them to the 2008 Stanley Cup Finals, where they were defeated by the Detroit Red Wings in six games. The Penguins returned to the Finals against Detroit the following year and won in seven games; Crosby became the youngest captain in NHL history to win the Stanley Cup. In 2009–10, he received the Mark Messier Leadership Award and scored 51 goals, winning the Maurice Richard Trophy as the NHL's leading goal scorer. In early 2011, Crosby sustained a concussion that left him sidelined for the rest of the season and for most of the 2011–12 campaign. In 2014, Crosby again won the Hart Memorial Trophy as well as his second Art Ross Trophy (104 points) and his third Ted Lindsay Award. Crosby led Pittsburgh to Stanley Cup championships in 2016 and 2017, becoming the third player to win the Conn Smythe Trophy (playoff MVP) in consecutive years. In 2017, he also captured his second Richard Trophy and was named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players in history. Internationally, Crosby has represented Canada on numerous occasions. He won gold at the 2005 World Junior Championships, and was later named to Team Canada for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Playing against the United States in the gold medal game, he scored the game-winning goal in overtime. Crosby captained Team Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics, winning his second consecutive Olympic gold medal. A year later, he led his country to gold in the World Championship in Prague, thus becoming a member of the Triple Gold Club and the only player in the club to have captained all three winning teams. In 2016, Crosby captained Canada to gold in the World Cup of Hockey and was elected MVP by a unanimous vote.More Sidney Crosby
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- 704/01/1917Sydney Cecil Newman, OC (April 1, 1917 – October 30, 1997) was a Canadian film and television producer, who played a pioneering role in British television drama from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. After his return to Canada in 1970, Newman was appointed Acting Director of the Broadcast Programs Branch for the Canadian Radio and Television Commission (CRTC) and then head of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). He also occupied senior positions at the Canadian Film Development Corporation and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and acted as an advisor to the Secretary of State.During his time in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, he worked first with the Associated British Corporation (ABC, now Thames Television), before moving across to the BBC in 1962, holding the role of Head of Drama with both organisations. During this phase of his career, he was responsible for initiating two hugely popular television programmes, the spy-fi series The Avengers and the science-fiction series Doctor Who, as well as overseeing the production of groundbreaking social realist drama series such as Armchair Theatre and The Wednesday Play. The Museum of Broadcast Communications describes Newman as "the most significant agent in the development of British television drama." His obituary in The Guardian declared that "For ten brief but glorious years, Sydney Newman ... was the most important impresario in Britain ... His death marks not just the end of an era but the laying to rest of a whole philosophy of popular art."In Quebec, as commissioner of the NFB, he attracted controversy for his decision to suppress distribution of several politically sensitive films by French Canadian directors.
- 810/31/1997Sydney Park (born October 31, 1997) is an American actress and comedian. She is best known known for her roles as Cyndie in AMC's The Walking Dead, Gabby Phillips in Instant Mom, and Caitlin Park-Lewis in Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists.More Sydney Park
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- 910/02/1981Sidney Samson (born 2 October 1981) is a Dutch DJ. He is best known for the track, Riverside, which was released in 2009.
- 1006/26/1891Sidney Coe Howard (June 26, 1891 – August 23, 1939) was an American playwright, dramatist and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925 and a posthumous Academy Award in 1940 for the screenplay for Gone with the Wind.
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Sydney Omarr
08/05/1926Sydney Omarr, born Sidney Kimmelman in Philadelphia was an American astrologer and an astrology consultant to the rich and famous. His daily Sun Sign Horoscope column appeared in more than 200 newspapers and his annual forecast books for each sign of the zodiac sold over 50 million copies. - 12
Sydney Smith
06/03/1771Sydney Smith (3 June 1771 – 22 February 1845) was an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric. - 1307/01/1934Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer and actor. Pollack directed more than 20 films and 10 television shows, acted in over 30 movies or shows and produced over 44 films. His 1985 film Out of Africa won him Academy Awards for directing and producing. He was also nominated for Best Director Oscars for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) and Tootsie (1982) in which he also appeared. Some of his other best known works include Jeremiah Johnson (1972), The Way We Were (1973), Three Days of the Condor (1975) and Absence of Malice (1981). His subsequent films included Havana (1990), The Firm (1993), The Interpreter (2005), and he produced and acted in Michael Clayton (2007). Pollack is probably best known to television viewers for his recurring role playing Will Truman's father on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace (2000-2006).
- 1406/25/1924Sidney Arthur Lumet ( loo-MET; June 25, 1924 – April 9, 2011) was an American director, producer, and screenwriter with over 50 films to his credit. He was nominated five times for the Academy Award: four for Best Director for 12 Angry Men (1957), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Network (1976), and The Verdict (1982) and one for Best Adapted Screenplay for Prince of the City (1981). He did not win an individual Academy Award, but did receive an Academy Honorary Award, and 14 of his films were nominated for Oscars, including Network, which was nominated for ten and won four. According to The Encyclopedia of Hollywood Lumet was one of the most prolific filmmakers of the modern era, directing more than one movie a year on average since his directorial debut in 1957. Turner Classic Movies notes his "strong direction of actors", "vigorous storytelling" and the "social realism" in his best work. Film critic Roger Ebert described him as "one of the finest craftsmen and warmest humanitarians among all film directors." Lumet was also known as an "actor's director," having worked with the best of them during his career, probably more than "any other director." Sean Connery, who acted in five of his films, considered him one of his favorite directors, and one who had that "vision thing."A member of the maiden cohort of New York's Actors Studio, Lumet began his directorial career in Off-Broadway productions, then became a highly efficient TV director. His first movie, 12 Angry Men (1957), was a courtroom drama centered on a tense jury deliberation. Lumet subsequently divided his energies among political and social drama films, as well as adaptations of literary plays and novels, big stylish stories, New York-based black comedies, and realistic crime dramas, including Serpico and Prince of the City. As a result of directing 12 Angry Men, he was also responsible for leading the first wave of directors who made a successful transition from TV to movies.In 2005 Lumet received an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement for his "brilliant services to screenwriters, performers, and the art of the motion picture." Two years later he concluded his career with the acclaimed drama Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007). A few months after Lumet's death in April 2011, a retrospective celebration of his work was held at New York's Lincoln Center with numerous speakers and film stars. In 2015 Nancy Buirski directed By Sidney Lumet, a documentary about his career, and in January 2017 PBS devoted its American Masters series to Lumet's life as a director.More Sidney Lumet
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- 1505/11/1984Sydney Wheeler is scheduled to appear on Survivor: Tocantins, the eighteenth season of reality show Survivor.
- 1608/07/1971Sydney Margaret Penny (born August 7, 1971) is an American actress. She is known for playing the roles of Julia Santos Keefer on the soap opera All My Children, and Samantha "Sam" Kelly on the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. She also starred in the 1998 WB television drama series Hyperion Bay, and as a teenager appeared in the 1985 Clint Eastwood film Pale Rider.
- 1712/27/1879Sydney Hughes Greenstreet (27 December 1879 – 18 January 1954) was a British actor. While he did not work in films until the age of 61, he had a run of significant motion pictures in a Hollywood career lasting nearly a decade. Greenstreet is best remembered for his Warner Bros. films with Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre, which include The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablanca (1942), and Passage to Marseille (1944). He became a naturalized United States citizen in 1925. Greenstreet portrayed Nero Wolfe on radio during 1950 and 1951.
- 1809/30/2001Sydney Wade is a child actress.
- 1907/24/1909Sidney Charles Bromley (24 July 1909 – 14 August 1987), credited as Sydney Bromley, was an English character actor. He appeared in more than sixty films and television programmes. On stage, he appeared in the 1924 premiere of Saint Joan, by George Bernard Shaw, as well as the 1957 film of the same name. He appeared in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night during the summer of 1935 at the Open Air Theatre in London.
- 2001/01/1865Sydney Mortimer Laurence (1865–1940) was an American Romantic landscape painter and is widely considered one of Alaska's most important historical artists.
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Sydney Youngblood
12/02/1960Sydney Youngblood (born Sydney Ford, 2 December 1960) is an American-German singer, actor and composer, who had several successful dance hits during the late 1980s and early 1990s. - 2207/13/1895Sidney Alderman Blackmer (July 13, 1895 – October 6, 1973) was an American actor who appeared in dozens of movies between 1914 and 1971, usually in major supporting roles. He was also a major Broadway performer.More Sidney Blackmer
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- 2302/11/1917Sidney Sheldon (February 11, 1917 – January 30, 2007) was an American writer and producer. Sheldon was prominent in the 1930s, first working on Broadway plays and then in motion pictures, notably writing the successful comedy The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) which earned him an Academy Award in 1948. He went on to work in television, where his works spanned a 20-year period during which he created The Patty Duke Show (1963–66), I Dream of Jeannie (1965–70) and Hart to Hart (1979–84). After turning 50, he began writing best-selling romantic suspense novels, such as Master of the Game (1982), The Other Side of Midnight (1973) and Rage of Angels (1980). His 18 novels have sold over 300 million copies in 51 languages. Sheldon is consistently cited as one of the top ten best selling fiction writers of all time.
- 2405/07/1990Sydney Rae Leroux Dwyer (born May 7, 1990) is a professional soccer player and Olympic gold medalist who currently plays as a forward for Orlando Pride in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). Born in Canada to a Canadian mother and an American father, Sydney came up through the Canadian system and represented Canada at various youth levels, until she chose to play for the United States women's national under-20 soccer team starting in 2008 and later began playing for the U.S. senior national team in 2012. Leroux has earned over 75 caps with the senior national team and was part of the Americans' winning squads at the 2012 London Olympics and 2015 Women's World Cup. Leroux played collegiate soccer in NCAA Division I for UCLA Bruins women's soccer and at the semi-professional level for the Vancouver Whitecaps. She made her debut for the Whitecaps at the age of fifteen, becoming the youngest player ever to play for the team. Leroux was the number one pick by the Atlanta Beat during the 2012 WPS Draft on January 13, 2012. Following the suspension of the league in early 2012, she played for the Seattle Sounders Women during the summer of the same year. In 2013, she made her professional debut for the Boston Breakers in the NWSL during the league's inaugural season. She was later traded to Seattle Reign FC in 2014, Western New York Flash for the 2015 season and FC Kansas City prior to the 2016 season.
- Sydney Rouviere is a child actress and a child model.
- 2601/06/1946Syd Barrett, born Roger Keith Barrett on January 6, 1946, was an influential English singer, songwriter, and musician. He is best known as a founding member of the band Pink Floyd, which he formed with his college friends in London during the mid-1960s. An innovative and eccentric artist, Barrett was the leading creative force behind the band's early psychedelic sound, contributing memorable songs like "Arnold Layne," "See Emily Play," and much of their debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Barrett's contributions to music were not limited to Pink Floyd. After leaving the band due to mental health issues exacerbated by drug use, he embarked on a solo career. While his tenure as a solo artist was short-lived, producing only two studio albums - The Madcap Laughs and Barrett, they left a lasting impact on the genre of psychedelia. Despite their commercial underperformance at the time of release, they have since gained cult status, being cited as influential by artists across genres. Unfortunately, Syd Barrett's promising musical career was marred by personal struggles. His deteriorating mental health, believed to be a result of heavy LSD use, forced him to withdraw from the public eye by the mid-1970s. For over three decades until his death in 2006, he lived a life of reclusion, away from the glitz and glamour associated with his Pink Floyd days.More Syd Barrett
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- 2703/16/1885Sydney John Chaplin (born Sydney John Hill; 16 March 1885 – 16 April 1965) was an English actor. Chaplin was the elder half-brother of actor and director Charlie Chaplin, and served as his business manager in later life. Through their mother, they were both half-brothers to the younger Wheeler Dryden, who grew up separately with his father in England. He was not told about his brothers until 1915. Dryden later immigrated to the United States, joining the Chaplins in Hollywood. Sydney Chaplin was also a half-uncle of the actor Sydney Chaplin (1926–2009), who was named after him.
- 2807/23/1922Sydney Lassick (July 23, 1922 – April 12, 2003) was an American actor perhaps best known for his role as Charlie Cheswick in the feature film One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Lassick's first name was sometimes spelled Sidney.
- 2907/27/1979Sidney Rodrigue Noukpo Govou (French pronunciation: [sidnɛ ɡɔvu]; born 27 July 1979) is a retired French international footballer who last played for FC Limonest in the Championnat de France Amateur 2. Govou was a natural winger but occasionally played as a striker.
- 3012/23/1965Sydney Pokorny (23 December 1965 – 1 September 2008) was a lesbian writer, editor, columnist and activist based in New York. She graduated from Vassar College in 1988 with a degree in art history. The author of numerous articles on topics ranging from "Madonna Studies" to art criticism and the AIDS epidemic; she also cowrote the Lambda Literary Award nominated So You Want to be a Lesbian? with Liz Tracey.
