Sidney Poitier | Sidney Lumet | Sidney Nolan | Sidney Bechet | Philip Sidney | Sidney Crosby | Albert Sidney Johnston | Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea | Sidney | Sylvia Sidney | Sidney Reilly | Sidney Altman | Sidney Paget | Sidney Howard | Sidney Colvin | Jaron Lanier | Henry Sidney | Sidney Smith | Sidney Lee | Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin | Sidney Cotton | Sidney Blumenthal | Donald Sidney-Fryer | William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle | Sterling E. Lanier | Sidney Sheldon | Sidney Robertson Cowell | Sidney Rigdon | Sidney Olcott | Sidney, Nebraska |
Born into one of Virginia's oldest and wealthiest families, he became a blockade runner for the Confederacy during the Civil War, and spent eight months in a Union prison camp (where he formed a lifelong friendship with poet Sidney Lanier); he converted to the Roman Catholic Church in 1872, and began to teach Greek and English at Saint Charles College (Ellicott City, Maryland) in 1878.