Sydney George Fairbairn MC (13 October 1892 – 19 January 1943) was an English cricketer and British Army officer. The son of Victorian rower Steve Fairbairn and Eleanor Sharwood, he was born in Cape Colony, South Africa. During the course of the First World War he had a short-lived marriage to Nancy Cunard, a writer, heiress and political activist. Their marriage lasted less than two years before they separated. In 1926 Fairbairn married Angela Fane who survived him. He was buried at St Nicholas Church, Steventon, Hampshire.