Sandy (name)

Sandy is a popular unisex name; the male version can be a diminutive of "Alexander," "Alasdair," "Sandipan", "Sanford," or "Santiago," while the female version is a diminutive for "Sandra" or less commonly "Alexandra" 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, British broadcaster
• Sandy Koufax (born 1935), American Hall of Fame baseball pitcher
• Sandy Lyle, British golfer
• 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 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 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

Hurricanes

• Hurricane Sandy, a massive, late-season tropical cyclone in the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season. When used in this context the name is feminine, developing (on 19 October 2012) between Hurricane Rafael (masculine) on 5 October 2012 and Tropical Storm Tony (masculine) in the evening of 19 October 2012.

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