Sandy (given name)
| Sandy | |
|---|---|
| Gender | unisex |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Alexander, Alexandra, Sandra |
Sandy is a popular unisex name; the male version can be a diminutive of "Alexander", "Sander", "Alasdair", "Sandipan", "Sanford", or "Santiago," while the female version is a diminutive for "Sandra" or less commonly "Alexandra", Alisande, and "Cassandra". The female name may also be spelled "Sandi" or "Sandie".
Notable people named Sandy include:
Women
- 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 Green, British singer and songwriter
- Sandy Johnson (born 1954), American model and actress
- Sandy Leah Lima, Brazilian singer-songwriter and actress
- Sandy Mölling, German singer
- Sandy Powell (costume designer) (born 1960)
- Sandy Shaw, an American writer on health
- Sandy West, an American musician, drummer of The Runaways
Men
- Sandy Alderson, a baseball general manager
- Sandy Alomar, Jr. (born 1966), American baseball player
- Sandy Alomar, Sr. (born 1943), American baseball player
- Sandy Brown (musician) (1929–75), Scottish jazz clarinetist
- Sandy Calder, or Alexander Calder, American sculptor and artist
- Sandy Collins (politician), Canadian politician in Newfoundland and Labrador
- Sandy Dvore, American artist
- Sandy Gall, Scottish journalist and broadcaster
- Sandy Hollway, Australian public servant
- Sandy Jardine, Scottish footballer
- Sandy Koufax (born 1935), American Hall of Fame baseball pitcher
- Sandy Lyle, Scottish golfer
- Sandy MacAra, or Alexander MacAra (1932-2012), British epidemiologist
- Sandy Mitchell, pseudonym of British writer Alex Stewart.
- Sandy Nelson (born 1938), American rock drummer
- Sandy Nelson (footballer) Australian footballer, since 2004 he is in the South Australian Football Hall of Fame
- Sandy Patch, or Alexander Patch (1889–1945), general of US Army in World War II
- Sandy Powell (comedian) (1900–1982)
- Sandy Rass, British songwriter and Musical Theatre star
- Sandy Rothman, American bluegrass musician and producer
- Sandy Sandberg (1910–1989), American football player
- Sandy Smith (born 1983), Scottish visual artist
- Sandy Wollaston (1875–1930), British explorer
- Sandy Woodward (born 1932), nickname of British Admiral John Woodward
Fictional
- Sandy Brown, a character from The Noozles
- Sandy Cheeks, a character from SpongeBob SquarePants
- Sandy Cohen, a character in the TV series The OC played by Peter Gallagher
- Sandy Hawkins, a DC Comics superhero
- Sandy Olsson, a character from the 1978 musical film Grease
- Sandy Ricks, a character from the 1963 film Flipper
- Sandy Thomas, a character in the British soap opera Emmerdale
- Sha Wujing (Sandy) in the Chinese epic Journey to the West
- Sandy, from the Japanese Monkey (TV series) based on Journey to the West
- Half of Julian and Sandy in the British radio comedy Round the Horne
- Sandy, Little Orphan Annie's dog
- Sandy Sunshine, a character in Mugen Souls and Mugen Souls Z
- Sandy, a character in The Croods
- Sandy, also Alisande, a character introduced in Chapter 11 of "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"
See also
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