Sidney - Definition and Overview

Sidney is the name of some places in the United States of America and Canada:

• Sidney, Kentucky
• Sidney, Montana
• Sidney, Nebraska
• Town of Sidney, New York
• Village of Sidney, New York
• Sidney, Ohio
• Sidney, British Columbia

Also see, spelled differently:

• Sydney, Australia
• Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada

Sidney (sometimes spelled Sydney) is also an English surname, borne by several prominent people in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries:

• Philip Sidney
• Algernon Sydney
• Henry Sidney
  • his son Robert Sidney and several other Earls of Leicester

Sidney is the common name of the college founded by a member of the family:

• Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge