Sidonia Explained
| Sidonia |
| Gender: | Female (typically) or male |
| Meaning: | "of Sidon" |
| Origin: | Ancient Roman |
| 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).
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