title: Sidon (surname)
text: # 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
  