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Sir Sidney Lee (5 December 1859 – 3 March 1926) was an English biographer, writer, and critic.
Lee wrote over 800 articles in the Dictionary, mainly on Elizabethan era authors or politician. His sister Elizabeth Lee also contributed. While still at Balliol, Lee had written two articles on Shakespearean questions, which were printed in The Gentleman's Magazine. In 1884, he published a book about Stratford-upon-Avon, with illustrations by Edward Hull. Lee's entry on Shakespeare in the 51st volume (1897) of the Dictionary of National Biography formed the basis of his Life of William Shakespeare (1898), which reached its fifth edition in 1905.
In 1902, Lee edited the Oxford facsimile edition of the first folio of Shakespeare's comedies, histories and tragedies, followed in 1902 and 1904 by supplementary volumes giving details of extant copies, and in 1906 by a complete edition of Shakespeare's works.
Lee received a Knight Bachelor in 1911. Between 1913 and 1924, he served as professor of English Literature and Language at East London College. In 1915 he delivered the British Academy's Shakespeare Lecture.
There are personal letters from Lee, including those written during his final illness, in the T. F. Tout Collection of the John Rylands Library in Manchester.
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