Sandy (given name)

Sandy is a popular unisex given name. The male version can be a diminutive of Alexander, Sander, Alasdair, Sandipan, Sandeep, Sanford, Santiago, etc., while the female version can be a diminutive for Sandra (itself a diminutive of Alexandra and Cassandra) or, less commonly, Alisande. Spelling variations include Sandi and Sandie.

Notable people named Sandy include:

Men

 * Sandy Alcántara (born 1995), Dominican baseball pitcher
 * Sandy Alderson (born 1947), American baseball executive
 * Sandy Allan (born 1947), Scottish footballer
 * Sandy Alomar Jr. (born 1966), Puerto Rican baseball player
 * Sandy Alomar Sr. (born 1943), Puerto Rican baseball player
 * Sandy Amorós (1930–1992), Cuban baseball player
 * Sandy Becker (1922–1996), American actor and television host
 * Sandy Brown (1929–1975), Scottish jazz clarinetist
 * Alexander Calder (1898–1976), American sculptor and artist
 * Sandy Cohen (born 1995), American-Israeli basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
 * Sandy Collins (born 1978), Canadian politician
 * Sandy Dvore (1934–2020), American artist
 * Sandy Frank (born 1929), American television producer
 * Sandy Gall (born 1937), Scottish journalist and broadcaster
 * Sandy Gunn (1919–1944), British Second World War pilot and prisoner of war executed for participating in the "Great Escape"
 * Alex Hair (1898–1970), Scottish footballer
 * Sandy Hollway, Australian public servant
 * Sandy Jardine (1948–2014), Scottish footballer
 * Sandy Koufax (born 1935), American Major League Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher
 * Brian Lane (RAF officer) (1917–1942), British Second World War flying ace
 * Sandy Lyle (born 1958), Scottish golfer
 * Alexander MacAra (1932–2012), British epidemiologist
 * Sandy Mayer (born 1952), American tennis player
 * Sandy Munro (born 1938), Canadian-American engineer
 * Sandy Nelson (1938–2022), American rock and roll drummer
 * Sandy Nelson (footballer) Australian footballer
 * Sandy Newbigging (1876–1976), Scottish footballer
 * Alexander Patch (1889–1945), US Army general in World War II
 * Sandy Powell (comedian) (1900–1982), British comedian
 * Sandy Rass, British songwriter and musical theatre star
 * Sandy Rothman (born 1946), American bluegrass musician and producer
 * Sandy Sandberg (1910–1989), American football player
 * Sandy Satullo II (born 1954), American former NASCAR Cup Series driver
 * Sandy Smith (born 1983), Scottish visual artist
 * Sandy Stuvik (born 1995), Thai racing driver
 * Sandy Tatum (1920–2017), American attorney and golf administrator
 * Sandy Wollaston (1875–1930), British explorer
 * Sandy Woodward (1932–2013), nickname of British Admiral John Woodward

Women

 * Sandy Abi Elias (born 1997), Lebanese-British footballer
 * Sandy Chambers (born 1967), British singer
 * Sandy Dennis (1937–1992), American actress
 * Sandy Denny (1947–1978), British singer and songwriter
 * Sandy Descher (born 1945), American actress
 * Sandy Dillon (1960–2022), American singer and songwriter
 * Sandy Duncan (born 1946), American singer and actress
 * Sandy Fox (born 1963), American singer and actress
 * Sandy Green (singer) (born 1987), British singer and songwriter
 * Sandy Heribert (born 1983), French-British TV journalist
 * Sandy Johnson (born 1954), American model and actress
 * Sandy Lam (born 1966), Hong Kong singer
 * Sandy McGarry (born 1961), American politician from South Carolina
 * Sandy Mölling (born 1981), German singer
 * Sandhya Mridul (born 1975), Indian actress nicknamed Sandy
 * Sandy Posey (born 1944), American singer
 * Sandy Powell (costume designer) (born 1960), British costume designer
 * Sandy Ratcliff (1948–2019), English actress
 * Sandy Schreier, American fashion historian and collector
 * Sandie Shaw (born 1947), English singer
 * Sandy Shaw (writer) (born 1943), American writer on health
 * Sandy Shaw (politician) (born 1960), Canadian politician
 * Sandy Skinner (born 1988/1989), Saint-Pierrais politician
 * Sandi Thom (born 1981), Scottish singer-songwriter
 * Sandi Toksvig (born 1958), British-Danish comedian, writer, actor, presenter and producer
 * Sandy Verschoor (born 1959), Australian-Dutch politician and former Lord Mayor of Adelaide
 * Sandy West (1959–2006), American musician, drummer in The Runaways
 * Sandy Wollschlager (born 1957), American chemist and politician

Fictional characters

 * Sandy, a character in 2012 American horror film Sloppy the Psychotic
 * Sandy, half of Julian and Sandy in the British radio comedy Round the Horne
 * Sandy, Little Orphan Annie's dog
 * Sandy, in Mark Twain's novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
 * Sandy, in the 1967 novel The Outsiders
 * Sandy, a sandman in Kidsongs: Good Night, Sleep Tight by Arthur Beddard
 * Sandy, in the Japanese television series Monkey based on Journey to the West
 * Sandy, a rail speeder in the American-Canadian television series Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go!
 * Sandy Bachman, in season 4 of the American television drama series Homeland
 * Sandy Brown (Noozles), from the Japanese anime The Noozles
 * Sandy Cheeks, in the animated TV series SpongeBob SquarePants
 * Sandy Cohen, in the TV series The OC, played by Peter Gallagher
 * Sandy Hawkins, a DC Comics superhero
 * Sandy Kominsky, in the TV series The Kominsky Method
 * Sandy Milkovich, a recurring character in the American TV series Shameless
 * Sandy Olsson, in the 1978 musical film Grease
 * Sandy Ricks, in the 1963 film Flipper
 * Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, in the novel Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow and subsequent movie
 * Sandy Sunshine, in the video games Mugen Souls and Mugen Souls Z
 * Sandy Thomas, in the British soap opera Emmerdale
 * Alexander Wilson, in the TV series Shetland
 * Sha Wujing (Sandy), in the Chinese epic Journey to the West
 * Sandy Bigelow Patterson, in the 2013 American road comedy film Identity Thief