Sydney (disambiguation)

Not to be confused with Sidney.

Sydney was originally an alternate spelling of the surname Sidney (name origin). Sydney has been regularly used as a given name since the 19th century, and is a fast-growing given name for female infants in the United States.

Sydney may refer to:

1 Places
2 People
3 Fiction
4 Other
5 See also

Places

Sydney, New South Wales
- City of Sydney, local government area of New South Wales
- Electoral district of Sydney, electorate in state parliament of New South Wales
- Division of Sydney, electorate in federal parliament of Australia
- Sydney Cove
- Sydney Heads
Sydney Island, Queensland, Australia
Sydney Parade Avenue, Ireland
Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada

People

First name

Sydney Allard (1910-1966), British car company founder
Sydney Atkinson (1901-1977), South African athlete
Sydney Barnes (1873-1967), English cricketer
Sydney Brenner (born 1927), South African biologist
Sydney Camm, (1893-1966), English aeronautical engineer
Sydney Chaplin (1885-1965), English actor
Sydney Earle Chaplin (1926-2009), American actor
Sydney Dacres (1805-1884), English admiral
Sydney Fremantle (1867-1958), English admiral
Sydney Greenstreet (1879-1954), English actor
Sydney Grundy (1848-1914), English dramatist
Sydney Gun-Munro (1916-2007), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines politician
Sydney J. Harris (1917-1986), American journalist
Sydney Horler (1888-1954), British novelist
Sydney Jacobson (1908-1988), British journalist
Sydney Kentridge (born 1922), South African lawyer and judge
Sydney Lamb (born 1929), American linguist
Sydney Laurence (1865-1940), American painter
Sydney Moon (born 1975), American adult model and actress
Sydney Mufamadi (born 1959), South African politician
Sydney Newman (1917-1997), Canadian film and television producer
Sydney Parkinson (1745-1771), Scottish illustrator
Sydney Penny (born 1971), American actress
Sydney Poitier (born 1973), American actress
Sydney Pollack (1934-2008), American film actor
Sydney Possuelo (born 1940), Brazilian explorer and ethnographer
Sydney Ringer (1836-1910), British pharmacologist
Sydney Schanberg (born 1934), American journalist
Sydney Sekeramayi (born 1944), Zimbabwean politician
Sydney Shoemaker (born 1931), American philosopher
Sydney Skaife (1889-1976), South African entomologist
Sydney Silverman (1895-1968), British politician
Sydney Smirke (1798-1877), English architect
Sydney Smith (1771-1845), English writer
Sydney Taylor (1904-1978), American author
Sydney J. Van Scyoc (born 1939), American science fiction writer

Surname

Algernon Sydney (1623-1683), English politician
Berenice Sydney (1944-1983), English artist
Grahame Sydney (born 1948), New Zealand artist
Harry Sydney (born 1959), American football player
Joan Sydney (born 1936), English actress
Mary Sydney (1561 - 1621), Countess of Pembroke
Robin Sydney (born 1984), American actress
Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (1732-1800), British politician

Pen name

Robert Yates (1738-1801), American politician.

Fiction

Sydney Andrews, fictional character in the television series Melrose Place
Sydney Bristow, fictional character in the television series Alias
Sydney Carton, fictional character in the 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Sydney Drew, fictional character in the television series Power Rangers: S.P.D
Sydney Fox, fictional character in the television series Relic Hunter
Sydney Losstarot, fictional character in the video game Vagrant Story
Sydney, fictional character in the television series The Pretender
Sydney (TV series), a 1990 CBS TV series starring Valerie Bertinelli, Matthew Perry & Craig Bierko
Sydney, original title of the 1996 film Hard Eight
Sydney White, 2007 film starring Amanda Bynes
Kevin Sydney, fictional character in the X-Men comic series

Other

Blackburn Sydney, British flying boat
HMAS Sydney, several warships in the Royal Australian Navy
Sydney Accord
Sydney Declaration
Sydney language
Sydney (ship), Australian cargo ship
University of Sydney