Sandy

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Sandy may refer to:

[edit] Places

United Kingdom

• Sandy, Bedfordshire, England
• Sandy, Carmarthenshire, Wales

United States

• Sandy, Oregon
• Sandy, Pennsylvania
• Sandy Run, a stream in Pennsylvania
• Sandy, Utah
• Big Sandy, Tennessee
• Sandy Spring, Maryland
• Sandy Hook (several places)

[edit] People

Sandy Given Name
Gender	unisex
Meaning	prego
Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with Sandy

Sandy is a popular unisex name; the male version is the Scottish diminutive for "Alexander" or "Alasdair", while the female version is a diminutive for "Sandra" or less commonly "Alexandra." In the 18th and 19th centuries, "Sandy" or "Sawney" was used as a pejorative term for Scottish people, but was gradually replaced by Jock.

Notable people named Sandy include:

Women:

• Sandy Chambers, Italian singer
• Sandy Denny, British singer and songwriter
• Sandy Duncan, American singer and actress
• Sandy Green, British singer and songwriter
• Sandy Mölling, German singer
• Sandy, the pseudonym of the porn model Zsanett Égerházi
• Sandy, the singer from the duo Sandy & Junior

Men:

• Sandy/Sawney Bean, legendary Scottish Cannibal
• Sandy Brown (musician), Scottish Jazz Clarinettist
• Sandy Dvore, American artist
• Sandy Koufax, American baseball pitcher
• Sandy Wollaston, British explorer
• Sandy Woodward, nickname of British Admiral John Woodward

Fictional characters named Sandy include:

• Sandy Hawkins, a DC Comics superhero
• Sandy Cheeks, a character from SpongeBob SquarePants
• Sandy Cohen, a character in the TV series The OC played by Peter Gallagher
• Sandy Olsson, a character from Grease
• Sandybell, the main character of the Hello! Sandybell anime series
• Sha Wujing (Sandy) in the book and TV series Monkey

[edit] Other

• Sandy (song), a song by the Carpenters. It is featured on their seventh album from 1976 "A Kind Of Hush"
• SANDY, the character from TV series 'Monkey Magic' played by Shiro Kishibe
• 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy), a song by Bruce Springsteen
• Sandy (band), an Iranian rap group playing bandari music that became famous in the late 90s
• Sandy Records, a short-lived rock and roll record label in Mobile, Alabama in the late 1950s and early 1960s
• Sandy (Sandy Denny album), by British singer-songwriter Sandy Denny
• Sandy, the name given by the USAF to aircraft escorting CSAR helicopters, with A-1 Skyraiders most commonly being given this nickname
• Sandy (mouse) or SDY, a dysbindin knockout mouse