Famous People with Name Sidney

Sidney Preston Osborn            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sidney Preston Osborn: was the seventh Governor of Arizona and is, as of 2007, the only governor of Arizona to serve four consecutive two-year terms (Governors of Arizona now serve four-year terms, with a limit of two terms).

Sidney Johnston Catts            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sidney Johnston Catts: was an American politician. He was the 22nd Governor of Florida and with Congressman Charles Randall of California one of only two members of the Prohibition Party to ever hold office. In 1916, he ran for Governor of Florida as a Democrat. He won the nomi

Sidney Perham            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sidney Perham: was a U.S. Representative and the 33rd Governor of Maine and was an activist in the temperance movement.He was elected a member of the Maine Board of Agriculture in 1853, was a member of the Maine House of Representatives in 1854, serving as Speaker of th

Sidney Asher Fine            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sidney Asher Fine: was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.He was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1945 until 1946 and the New York State Senate from 1947 until 1950. He was elected to Congress in 1950 and served from

Sidney Spivak            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sidney Spivak: was a Manitoba politician. He was a Cabinet Minister in the governments of Dufferin Roblin, Walter Weir and Sterling Lyon, and was himself leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba from 1971 to 1975. Spivak was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the provincial election of 1966, in the upscale west-Winnipeg riding of River Heights. A Progressive Conservative, Spivak was appointed Minister of Industry and Commerce in Dufferin Roblin's government. He continued to hold this position after Walter Weir became Premier in 1967. Weir's Progressive Conservatives were defeated in the election of 1969, although Spivak was easily re-elected in his own riding. Two years later, he defeated Harry Enns by 46 votes to become the party's leader.

Sylvia Sidney            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sylvia Sidney: was an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress.During the Depression, Sidney appeared in a string of films, often playing the girlfriend or the sister of a gangster. She appeared opposite such heavyweight screen idols as Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda, Joel McCrea, Fredric March, George Raft (a frequent screen partner), and Cary Grant. Among her films from this period were: An American Tragedy, City Streets and Street Scene (all 1931), Alfred Hitchcock's Sabotage and Fritz Lang's Fury (both 1936),

Sir Philip Sidney            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Sir Philip Sidney: became one of the Elizabethan Age's most prominent figures. Famous in his day in England as a poet, courtier and soldier, he remains known as the author of Astrophel and Stella (1581, pub. 1591), The Defence of Poetry (or An Apology for Poetry, 1581, pub.