Sidonia

For other uses, see Sidonia (disambiguation).

Sidonia

Gender	Female (typically) or male
Origin
Word/name	Ancient Roman
Meaning	"of Sidon"
Other names
See also	Sidonie, Sidonija, Sidoniya, Sydonia, Szidónia, Sida, Sido, Szidi, Donya, Donka, Sodka, Sidonius

Sidonia or Sidonie is a feminine given name which may refer to:

People

• Sidonie of Bavaria (1488–1505), eldest daughter of Duke Albert IV of Bavaria-Munich, wife of the Elector Palatine Louis V
• Sidonie of Poděbrady (1449–1510), daughter of the King of Bohemia
• Sidonie of Saxony (1518–1575), Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Princess of Calenberg-Göttingen
• Sidonia von Borcke (1548–1620), Pomeranian noblewoman tried and executed for witchcraft
• Sidonia Făgărășan, Romanian biological scientist
• Sidonie Goossens (1899–2004), English harpist
• Sidonie Grünwald-Zerkowitz (1852–1907), Austro-Hungarian writer, translator and fashion designer
• Sidonia Jędrzejewska (born 1975), Polish politician and MEP
• Sidonia Hedwig Zäunemann (1711–1740), German poet

Fictional characters

• Sidonia, a legendary Jewish priest's daughter (see Abiathar and Sidonia)
• Sidonia of Brittany, heroine of the medieval roman Pontus and Sidonia
• Sidonie, in the 1874 French novel Fromont and Risler, also titled Sidonie
• Sidonie, in the 1686 opera Armide by Jean-Baptiste Lully
• Sidonie, in the 1777 opera Armide by Christoph Willibald Gluck, using the libretto of the earlier opera
• Sidonia, in Benjamin D'Israeli's novel Coningsby
• Tante Sidonia, in Willy Vandersteen's comics series Spike and Suzy
• Sidonia, heroine of Radclyffe Hall's novel A Saturday Life
• Sidonie, a key character in the films The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Germany, 1972) and Peter Von Kant (France, 2022).

See also

• Sidonius (disambiguation)
• Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873–1954), French novelist and performer
• Knights of Sidonia, a Japanese manga and anime series.