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Sidney Painter (September 23 1902 – 1960) was an American medievalist at Johns Hopkins University. Painter was born in New York City; after the Taft School he attended Yale University (AB 1925; PhD 1930). He wrote many influential books. His doctoral thesis was later published as William Marshal: Knight-Errant Baron and Regent of England and was supervised by Professor Sydney K. Mitchell at Yale University.