Sidney De Haan

Sidney Isaac De Haan, OBE (6 February 1919 – 16 February 2002) was the founder of Saga, an internationally known group of companies providing a wide range of services for people aged 50 and over.

De Haan died at his home in Folkestone, Kent, on Saturday 16 February 2002, after suffering a heart attack. Margery pre-deceased him in 1994.

In memory of Sidney De Haan, the Roger De Haan Charitable Trust funded the Sidney De Haan Research Centre led by the university's music department and the Centre for Health Education and Research in 2004 in association with Shepway Primary Care Trust and Canterbury Christ Church University. The centre is an extension of research undertaken by Professor Grenville Hancox and Professor Stephen Clift into the positive effects of music on health and well-being. The project, the first of its kind in East Kent, is one of only four in the UK. It is the first higher education venture to be carried out in Folkestone, Kent.