Mandy (given name)
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Mandy is a given name, or a nickname for the female name Amanda or Miranda. Latin in origin, it literally translates to "worthy of love". It is regularly given as an independent name in English-speaking countries since the 1960s, or a nickname for the male names Armand, Mandel or Emmanuel. It may refer to:
[edit] People
- Mandy Bruno (born 1982), American actress
- Mandy Capristo, German singer
- Mandy Haberman, British designer and inventor
- Mandy Hagar, New Zealand children's book author
- Mandy Miller (born 1944), British actor and child star of the film Mandy (1952).
- Mandy Moore (born 1984), American singer and actress
- Mandy Patinkin (born 1952), American actor and singer
- Mandy Rice-Davies (born 1944), famous for her role in the Profumo affair, which discredited the Conservative government of British Prime-Minister Harold Macmillan in 1963
- Mandy Smith (born 1970), British singer, model and actress known professionally as Mandy..
- Mandy Chiang (born 1982), Hong Kong singer
- Mandy Cho, Hong Kong actress and pageant winner
- Peter Mandelson, European Trade Commissioner and Ex-Labour Cabinet Minister, sometimes called "Mandy"
[edit] Fiction
- Mandy Hampton, a character on the television series The West Wing
- Mandy Luxe, a cartoon character from the animated series Totally Spies!
- Mandy Hutchinson, a character in the British soap opera Hollyoaks, played by Sarah Jayne Dunn.
- Mandy Hope, a character in the children's book series Animal Ark.