Sandy
Appearance
Sandy may refer to:
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)
People
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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 Heemskerk, Dutch painter
- 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:
- Sanderson 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
Other
- 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
- Operation Sandy - launch of two V-2 rockets beginning September 6, 1947, from the USS Midway aircraft carrier (preceded by Operation Pushover to identify the risk of a fallen missile)[1]
- Sandy is 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.