Sidney Silodor (November 13, 1906 – August 4, 1963) was an American bridge player. Silodor was a World Champion, winning the Bermuda Bowl in 1950. Silodor is currently 6th on the all-time list of North American Bridge Championships wins with 34. Silodor was a lawyer from Havertown, Pennsylvania.
Silodor was named to its hall of fame by The Bridge World in 1966, which brought the number of members to nine, and was made a founding member of the ACBL Hall of Fame in 1995.
Silodor was born in Newark, New Jersey to Charles and Pauline Silodor, Jewish emigrants from the Russian Empire. He was married to Elizabeth Collins. He died of brain cancer at Philadelphia's Temple University Hospital in 1963.
ACBL Hall of Fame, 1966Mott-Smith Trophy (1) 1963Bermuda Bowl (1) 1950North American Bridge Championships (34)Master Individual (1) 1951 von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs (1) 1946 Rockwell Mixed Pairs (3) 1951, 1955, 1956 Silodor Open Pairs (1) 1963 Hilliard Mixed Pairs (2) 1940, 1944 Fall National Open Pairs (2) 1941, 1946 Vanderbilt (8) 1944, 1945, 1950, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960 Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams (3) 1952, 1956, 1961 Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (4) 1941, 1943, 1944, 1954 Reisinger (6) 1942, 1943, 1950, 1954, 1956, 1961 Spingold (3) 1943, 1951, 1957 Bermuda Bowl (2) 1958, 1961North American Bridge Championshipsvon Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs (2) 1943, 1956 Wernher Open Pairs (3) 1941, 1950, 1958 Vanderbilt (1) 1953 Spingold (1) 1936 Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams (3) 1946, 1959, 1963 Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (4) 1946, 1952, 1960, 1962 Reisinger (3) 1944, 1948, 1951 Spingold (5) 1947, 1950, 1955, 1960, 1961 Silodor is sometimes credited with two books, "Silodor Says" and "According to Silodor".
Silodor Says: the grand slam of bridge literature (New York: Pageant Press, 1952), 240 pp., OCLC 2556615Contract bridge: According to Silodor and Tierney, Silodor and John A. Tierney (Chestnut Hill, MA: Stanley–Allan Co., 1961), 442 pp., OCLC 5691240Complete Book of Duplicate Bridge, Norman Kay, Fred Karpin, and Silodor (G. P. Putnam, 1965), 496 pp., LCCN 65-22224LeadUnderleading an ace