Sydney (name)

Notable people and characters named Sydney include:

Men

 * Sydney Allard (1910–1966), British car company founder
 * Sydney Ancher (1904–1978), Australian architect
 * Sydney Arnold, 1st Baron Arnold (1878–1945), radical British Liberal Party politician
 * Sydney Atkinson (1901–1977), South African athlete
 * Sydney D. Bailey (1916–1995), English author and pacifist
 * Sydney Barnes (1873–1967), English cricketer
 * Sydney Beaumont (1884–1939), English professional footballer and football manager, runner and cricketer
 * Sydney Brenner (1927–2019), South African biologist
 * Sydney Brown (American football) (born 2000), Canadian American football player
 * Sydney Savory Buckman (1860–1929), British paleontologist
 * Sydney Burdekin (1839–1899), Australian politician
 * Sydney Butchkes (1922–2015), American visual artist and designer
 * Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton (1853–1934), radical British Liberal politician
 * Sydney Caine (1902–1991), English educator and economist
 * Sydney Camm (1893–1966), English aeronautical engineer
 * Sydney Carline (1888–1929), British artist and teacher
 * Sydney Chaplin (1885–1965), English actor
 * Sydney Earle Chaplin (1926–2009), American actor
 * Sydney Chapman, multiple people
 * Sidney Chu (born 1999), Hong Kong short track speed skater
 * Syd Cohen, American baseball pitcher
 * Sydney Dacres (1805–1884), English admiral
 * Sydney de Zoysa (1909–1994), Sri Lankan Sinhala police officer
 * Sydney Thompson Dobell (1824–1874), English poet and critic
 * Sydney Dodd (c. 1874–1926), British veterinary surgeon and scientist
 * Sydney Donkin (1871–1952), British civil engineer
 * Sydney Dowse (1918–2008), Royal Air Force pilot
 * Sydney "Syd" Einfeld (1909–1995), Australian politician and Jewish community leader
 * Sydney F. Foster (1893–1973), Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
 * Sydney Fremantle (1867–1958), English admiral
 * Sydney Gardner (1884–1965), Australian politician
 * Sydney Gedge (1829–1923), British Conservative politician
 * 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 Herring (1881–1951), Australian Army colonel and temporary brigadier general in the First World War
 * Sydney Hinam (1898–1982), Welsh rugby union and professional rugby league footballer
 * Sydney Holland, 2nd Viscount Knutsford (1855–1931), British barrister and peer
 * Sydney Horler (1888–1954), British novelist
 * Sydney Jacobson, Baron Jacobson (1908–1988), British journalist
 * Sydney Jary (1924–2019), British Army officer
 * Sydney Josland (1904–1991), New Zealand bacteriologist
 * Sydney Kentridge (born 1922), South African lawyer and judge
 * Sydney Lamb (born 1929), American linguist
 * Sydney Laurence (1865–1940), American painter
 * Sydney Lipton (1905–1995), British dance band leader
 * Sydney McMeekan (1925–1991), British basketball player
 * Sydney Mufamadi (born 1959), South African politician
 * Sydney Newman (1917–1997), Canadian film and television producer
 * Sydney A. Oades (1890–1961), British World War I flying ace
 * Sydney Olivier, 1st Baron Olivier (1859–1943), British civil servant
 * Sydney Omarr (1926–2003), American astrologist
 * Sydney Paget (1857–1916), English aristocrat
 * Sydney Parkinson (1745–1771), Scottish illustrator
 * Sydney Pollack (1934–2008), American film actor
 * Sydney Possuelo (born 1940), Brazilian explorer and ethnographer
 * Sydney Ringer (1836–1910), British pharmacologist
 * Sydney Rowell (1894–1975), Australian soldier, Chief of the General Staff from 1950 to 1954
 * Sydney Domville Rowland (1872–1917), English physician
 * Sydney Schanberg (1934–2016), American journalist
 * Sydney Segal (1920–1997), Canadian pediatrician and neonatologist
 * Sydney Sekeramayi (born 1944), Zimbabwean politician
 * Sydney Selwyn (1934–1996), British physician, medical scientist, and professor
 * Sydney Shearer (1890–1973), New Zealand rugby union player
 * Sydney Shoemaker (1931–2022), American philosopher
 * Sydney Silverman (1895–1968), British politician
 * Sydney Simmons (1840–1924), British entrepreneur and philanthropist
 * Sydney Vincent Sippe (1889–1968), British pioneer aviator
 * Sydney Skaife (1889–1976), South African entomologist
 * Sydney Smirke (1798–1877), English architect
 * Sydney Smith (1771–1845), English writer
 * Sydney Tafler (1916–1979), English actor
 * Sydney Taylor (1904–1978), American author
 * Sydney Templeman, Baron Templeman (1920–2014), British judge
 * Sydney James Van Pelt (1908–1976), Australian medical practitioner
 * Sydney J. Van Scyoc (1939–2023), American science fiction writer
 * Sydney Curnow Vosper (1866–1942), English painter
 * Sydney Rigby Wason (1887–1969), senior British Army officer in the Second World War
 * Sydney Wignall (1922–2012), British marine archaeologist, climber, explorer and spy
 * Sydney Wilson (born 1990), English former professional snooker player
 * Sydney Wooderson (1914–2006), English athlete
 * Sydney Youngblood (born 1960), American-German singer, actor and composer

Women

 * Sydney Affolter (born c. 2003), American basketball player
 * Sydney Baldwin (born 1996), American ice hockey defender
 * Sydney Barros (born 2005), American artistic gymnast
 * Sydney Blomquist (born 1993), American professional soccer player
 * Sydney Cummings (born 1999), American-born Guyanese professional footballer
 * Sydney Fairbrother (1872–1941), British actress
 * Sydney Kamlager (born 1972), American politician
 * Sydney Kolodziej (born 1993), American pair skater
 * Sydney Land (1995–2016), American victim of unsolved shooting
 * Sydney Leroux Dwyer (born 1990), Canada-born American soccer player
 * Sydney Magruder Washington, American ballet dancer and blogger
 * Sydney Mancasola, American opera soprano
 * Sydney Mikayla (born 2003), American actress
 * Sydney Morton (born 1985), American stage and television actress, singer and dancer
 * Sydney Park (actress) (born 1997), American actress and comedian
 * Sydney Parr, American softball player
 * Sydney Penny (born 1971), American actress
 * Sydney Tamiia Poitier (born 1973), Bahamanian-American actress, daughter of Sidney Poitier
 * Sydney Pokorny (1965–2008), American lesbian writer, editor, columnist and activist
 * Sydney Rossman (born 1995), American ice hockey player
 * Sydney Sadick (born 1994), American on-air fashion and entertainment commentator
 * Sydney Sierota (born 1997), lead singer of Echosmith
 * Sydney Sweeney (born 1997), American actress
 * Sydney Walsh (born 1961), American actress
 * Sydney Rae White (born 1991), English actress and singer

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 (1936–2022), English actress
 * Robin Sydney (born 1984), American actress

Fictional characters

 * Sydney Andrews, character in the television series Melrose Place
 * Sydney Bristow, character in the television series Alias
 * Sydney Carton, character in the novel A Tale of Two Cities
 * Sydney Drew, character in the television series Power Rangers: S.P.D.
 * Sydney Fox, character in the television series Relic Hunter
 * Dr. Sydney Hansen, character in the television series Providence
 * Sydney Losstarot, character in the video game Vagrant Story
 * Sydney Novak, character in the television series I Am Not Okay With This
 * Sydney Reynolds, one of the main characters in the Disney Channel series Sydney to the Max
 * Sydney, character in the television series The Pretender
 * Kevin Sydney, fictional character in the X-Men comic series