Sandler

Sandler is a surname derived from Hebrew "Sandlar" (סנדלר) - "sandal-maker", i.e. shoemaker - which passed over to Yiddish with the same meaning. Thus, persons having this name are likely to have had a shoemaker among their ancestors, though it might be many generations in the past. Holders of the name include:

• Adam Sandler (born 1966), American actor and comedian
• Barry Sandler (born 1947), American screenwriter and film producer
• Ethan Sandler (born 1973), American actor
• Herb Sandler, American banker
• Jackie Sandler (born 1974), American actress and wife of Adam Sandler
• Jonathan Sandler (1982-2012), French rabbi assassinated on March 19th, 2012 with his two sons during the 2012 Midi-Pyrénées shootings in Toulouse
• Joseph Sandler (born 1953), Washington, D.C. attorney
• Larry Sandler, American geneticist
• Rickard Sandler (1884–1964), Prime Minister of Sweden (1925–1926)
• Ron Sandler, British banker
• Tony Sandler (born 1933), Belgian singer, entertainer and performer

Surnames associated with the occupations of cobbler/shoemaker/cordwainer Celtic Quéré Gracie, Grassie, Grassick Germanic Schumacher, Schuhmacher, Schumaker, Shoemaker, Schoemaker, Shoemark, Schuster, Shuster (from Schuster), Knef Schoenmaker, Schoenmakers, Schoonmaker from Latin "sutor": Suter, Sutter, Souter, Sauter, Sutar, Soutar, Souttar Romance Sutor DeSutter, De Sutter, DeZuter, DeZutter, De Zutter De Soto, DeSoto, de Soto, Desoto Scarpa, Scarponi, Calzolaro, Calligaris, Calegari, Chaucer, Zangari Cordonnier, Courvoisier, Corviser, Corvisier, Sabatier Crispino Sapateiro, Zapatero Ciubotaru, Ciubotariu (borrowing from Slavic) Slavic Chebotar, Chebotaryov (Tschebotarioff), Chebotarenko Čizmar, Čižmár, Cizmar, Čižman Łatacz Sapozhnikov, Sapozhnik, Bashmachnikov Shvets, Shevchenko, Shevchuk, Shevtsov, Shautsov, Švec, Ševčík (Sevcik, Shevchik), Szewczyk, Sheuchyk Šuštar (from Schuster) Kopitar Other "Sandlar" (סנדלר) ("sandal-maker"): HaSandlar, Sandler, Zandler Suutari Kingsepp Varga Csizmadia