Sid

Sid is a nickname originating from the name Sidney or Siddharth. Though it is also used for people with other given names. It also may refer to:

People

• Sid (band), Japanese rock band
• Sid Caesar, actor and comedian
• Sid Eudy, professional wrestler known as "Sycho" Sid Vicious/Justice
• Sid Field, English comedy entertainer
• Sid Gordon, American major league baseball All Star player
• Sid Hartman, columnist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune
• Sid James, South African-born English film and television actor
• Sid Luckman, American Hall of Fame NFL football player
• Sid Meier, game developer, famous for his Civilization series
• Sid Terris ("Ghost of the Ghetto"), American lightweight boxer
• Sid Vicious, English punk rock musician, once a member of the Sex Pistols
• Sid Wilson, turntablist for the musical group Slipknot
• Syd Barrett, English progressive rock musician, founding member of Pink Floyd
• El Cid, Castilian nobleman

Fictional characters

• Sid or Cid, recurring character in the Final Fantasy series
• Sid, archetypal small investor used to promote the privatisation of British Gas plc
• Sid (Ice Age), a goofy ground sloth in the animation movies Ice Age, Ice Age 2: The Meltdown and Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.
• Sid Barett, a teacher in Soul Eater
• Sid Dabster, character in the Web comic User Friendly
• Sid Jenkins, character in the British series Skins, played by Mike Bailey
• Sid Phillips, The antagonist in the animation movie Toy Story
• Sid the Dummy, demon-hunter trapped in the body of a puppet in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Sid the Science Kid, main character of the childrens' show Sid the Science Kid
• Sid the Sexist, character in the comic book Viz
• Sid Snot, ageing biker, one of the characters portrayed by Kenny Everett
• Sid the Cussing Rabbit, a puppet on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

Geography

• Šid, town in northwestern Serbia in the province of Vojvodina
• Šíd, village in Slovakia
• River Sid, a river in Devon, England that flows into the English Channel at Sidmouth
• Síd, a common term for a fairy mound in Irish literature and folklore.

Computing

• Security Identifier used in Microsoft Windows NT networks to identify subjects such as users, computers and groups.
• SID, The MOS Technology SID (Sound Interface Device), the soundchip found in the Commodore 64 home computer
• sid, codename for the unstable development version of Debian, a Linux distribution

See also

• SID (disambiguation)
• Syd (disambiguation)
• SYD (disambiguation)
• Siddhartha (disambiguation)
• Cid (disambiguation)
• CID (disambiguation)
• Cyd
• CYD