Famous People with Name Sidney

Sidney Luckman,            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sidney Luckman,: was an American football quarterback for the Chicago Bears from 1939 to 1950. During his 12 seasons with the Bears he led them to four NFL championships. Luckman was the first modern T-formation quarterback[1] and is considered the greatest long range passer of his time

Sidney Olcott            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sidney Olcott: was a Canadian-born film producer, director, actor and screenwriter.In 1907, Frank Marion and Samuel Long, with financial backing from George Kleine, formed a new motion picture company called the Kalem Company and were able to lure the increasingly successful Sidney Olcott away from Biograph. Olcott was offered the sum of ten dollars per picture and under the terms of his contract, Olcott was required to direct a minimum of one, one-reel picture of about a thousand feet every week. After making a number of very successful films for the Kalem studio, including "Ben Hur" (1907) with its dramatic chariot race scene, Olcott became the company's president and was rewarded with one share of its stock.

Sidney Luckman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sidney Luckman: was an American football quarterback for the Chicago Bears from 1939 to 1950. During his 12 seasons with the Bears he led them to four NFL championships. Luckman was the first modern T-formation quarterback[1] and is considered the greatest long range passer of his time.[1][2] He was named the National Football League's Most Valuable Player in 1943, and Pulitzer prize winning sports writer Ira Berkow later wrote that Luckman was "the first great T-formation quarterback".[3] Following his retirement from playing, Luckman continued his association with football by tutoring college coaches, focusing on the passing aspect of the game. He was later inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1965

Sidney Norman Bernstein            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sidney Norman Bernstein: was an American chess master.He tied for 2nd-4th in Marshall Chess Club Championship at New York 1930/31 (Arthur Dake won),[1] tied for 6-7th in New York State Chess Championship at Rome 1931 (Fred Reinfeld won),[2] took 11th in American Chess Federation Congress at Philadelphia 1936 (Israel Albert Horowitz won).

Sidney Drell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sidney Drell: an American theoretical physicist and arms control expert.He is a professor emeritus at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and a fellow at the Hoover Institution. Drell is a noted contributor in the field of quantum electrodynamics and particle physics. The Drell-Yan process is partially named after him. He was one of the winners of the 2000 Enrico Fermi Award.He co-authored a classic textbook "Relativistic Quantum Mechanics" with James Daniel Bjorken. Drell is active as a scientific advisor to the U.S. government, and is a founding member of the JASON Defense Advisory Group. He is also on the board of directors of Los Alamos National Security, LLC, the company that operates the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is an expert in the field of nuclear arms control. He is also an accomplished violinist.

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.