Sandy (given name)
Gender | Unisex |
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Related names | Alexander, Alexandra, Sandra, Sander |
Sandy is a popular unisex given name. The male version can be a diminutive of Alexander, Sander, Alasdair, Sandipan, Sandeep, Sanford, Santiago, etc., while the female version can be a diminutive for Sandra (itself a diminutive of Alexandra and Cassandra) or, less commonly, Alisande. Female spelling variations include Sandi and Sandie.
Notable people named Sandy include:
Men[]
- Sandy Alderson (born 1947), American baseball executive
- Sandy Allan (born 1947), Scottish footballer
- Sandy Alomar Jr. (born 1966), American baseball player
- Sandy Alomar Sr. (born 1943), American baseball player
- Sandy Amorós (1930–1992), Major League Baseball player from Cuba
- Sandy Becker (1922–1996), American actor and television host
- Sandy Brown (1929–1975), Scottish jazz clarinetist
- Alexander Calder (1898–1976), American sculptor and artist
- Sandy Cohen (born 1995), American-Israeli basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- Sandy Collins (born 1978), Canadian politician
- Sandy Dvore, American artist
- Sandy Frank (born 1929), American television producer
- Sandy Gall (born 1937), Scottish journalist and broadcaster
- Sandy Gunn (1919–1944), British Second World War pilot and prisoner of war executed for participating in the "Great Escape"
- Sandy Hollway, Australian public servant
- Sandy Jardine (1948–2014), Scottish footballer
- Sandy Koufax (born 1935), American Major League Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher
- Brian Lane (1917–1942), British Second World War flying ace
- Sandy Lyle (born 1958), Scottish golfer
- Alexander MacAra (1932–2012), British epidemiologist
- Sandy Mitchell, pseudonym of British writer Alex Stewart
- Sandy Munro (born 1938), Canadian-American engineer
- Sandy Nelson (born 1938), American rock drummer
- Sandy Nelson (footballer) Australian footballer
- Alexander Patch (1889–1945), US Army general in World War II
- Sandy Powell (1900–1982), British comedian
- Sandy Rass, British songwriter and musical theatre star
- Sandy Rothman (born 1946), American bluegrass musician and producer
- Sandy Sandberg (1910–1989), American football player
- Sandy Satullo, II (born 1954), American former NASCAR Cup Series driver
- Sandy Smith (born 1983), Scottish visual artist
- Sandy Stuvik (born 1995), Thai racing driver
- Sandy Tatum (1920–2017), American attorney and golf administrator
- Sandy Wollaston (1875–1930), British explorer
- Sandy Woodward (born 1932), nickname of British Admiral John Woodward
Women[]
- Sandy Abi Elias, Lebanese-British footballer
- Sandy Chambers, British singer
- Sandy Dennis (1937–1992), American actress
- Sandy Denny (1947–1978), British singer and songwriter
- Sandy Descher, American actress
- Sandy Dillon, American singer and songwriter
- Sandy Duncan, American singer and actress
- Sandy Fox, American singer and actress
- Sandy Green (singer), British singer and songwriter
- Sandy Heribert, French-British TV journalist
- Sandy Johnson (born 1954), American model and actress
- Sandy Lam, Hong Kong singer
- Sandy McGarry, American politician from South Carolina (born 1961)
- Sandy Mölling, German singer
- Sandhya Mridul (born 1975), Indian actress nicknamed Sandy
- Sandy Powell (costume designer) (born 1960)
- Sandy Ratcliff (1948-2019), English actress
- Sandie Shaw (born 1947), English singer
- Sandy Shaw (writer) (born 1943), American writer on health
- Sandy Shaw (politician) (born 1960), Canadian politician
- Sandy Schreier, American fashion historian and collector
- Sandi Thom (born 1981), Scottish singer-songwriter
- Sandi Toksvig, British-Danish comedian, writer, actor, presenter and producer
- Sandy Verschoor, an Australian Dutch politician and current mayor
- Sandy West, American musician, drummer in The Runaways
Fictional characters[]
- Sandy, a character in 2012 American horror film Sloppy the Psychotic
- Sandy, half of Julian and Sandy in the British radio comedy Round the Horne
- Sandy, Little Orphan Annie's dog
- Sandy, in Mark Twain's novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- Sandy, in the 1967 novel The Outsiders
- Sandy, a sandman in Kidsongs: Good Night, Sleep Tight by Arthur Beddard
- Sandy, in the Japanese television series Monkey based on Journey to the West
- Sandy Bachman, in season 4 of the American television drama series Homeland
- Sandy Brown (Noozles), from the Japanese anime The Noozles
- Sandy Cheeks, in the animated TV series SpongeBob SquarePants
- Sandy Cohen, in the TV series The OC, played by Peter Gallagher
- Sandy Hawkins, a DC Comics superhero
- Sandy Milkovich, a recurring character in the American TV series Shameless
- Sandy Olsson, in the 1978 musical film Grease
- Sandy Ricks, in the 1963 film Flipper
- Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, in the novel Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow and subsequent movie
- Sandy Sunshine, in the video games Mugen Souls and Mugen Souls Z
- Sandy Thomas, in the British soap opera Emmerdale
- Alexander Wilson, in the TV series Shetland
- Sha Wujing (Sandy), in the Chinese epic Journey to the West
- Sandy Bigelow Patterson, in the 2013 American road comedy film Identity Thief
See also[]
- Sandy (disambiguation)
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