Sidon (surname)
# Sidon (surname)

Sidon is a surname.

## People with the surname

* Andreas Sidon (born 1963), German professional boxer fighting in the heavyweight division
* Ephraim Sidon (born 1946), Israeli author, playwright and satirist, and writer of children's books
* Karol Sidon (born 1942), Czech rabbi, writer and playwright
* Shimon Sidon (1815–1891), Hungarian rabbi
* Simon Sidon or Szidon (1892–1941), Hungarian mathematician

## People known as "of Sidon"

* Abba Gorion of Sidon, a tanna who lived in the second century in Sidon
* Antipater of Sidon, Antipatros or Antipatros Sidonios in the Anthologies, a Greek poet in the second half of the 2nd century BC
* Boethus of Sidon (c. 75 – c. 10 BC), Peripatetic philosopher from Sidon
* Boethus of Sidon (Stoic), (2nd century BC), Stoic philosopher from Sidon
* Dorotheus of Sidon (c. 75 CE), Hellenistic astrologer who wrote a didactic poem on horoscopic astrology known in Greek as the Pentateuch
* Meges of Sidon (1st century BC), eminent surgeon born at Sidon
* Reginald of Sidon (1130s – 1202), Lord of Sidon and an important noble in the Kingdom of Jerusalem
* Zeno of Sidon (c. 150 – c. 75 BC), Epicurean philosopher from the Phoenician city of Sidon
