Sanford (given name)

Sanford is a male given name of Old English origin, meaning "sandy ford". Notable people with the name include:


 * Sanford Barsky, American professor of pathology
 * Sanford Bates (1884–1972), American politician and administrator
 * Sanford Berman (born 1933), American librarian
 * Sanford I. Berman (1924–2015), American philanthropist and author
 * Sanford Dennis Biggar, Canadian politician
 * Sanford Augustus Brookins (1877–1968), American architect and builder
 * Sanford Diller (1928–2018), American billionaire
 * Sanford Biggers (born 1970), American artist
 * Sanford Bishop (born 1947), American politician
 * Sanford Bookstaver (born 1973), American television director
 * Sanford Brown (writer) (born 1957), American Methodist minister
 * Sanford E. Charron (1917–2008), American politician
 * Sanford E. Church (1815–1880), American lawyer and politician
 * Sanford Clark (1935–2021), American singer and guitarist
 * Sanford Lockwood Cluett (1874–1968), American businessman and inventor
 * Sanford Coats (born 1971), American federal attorney
 * Sanford Johnston Crowe (1868–1931), Canadian politician
 * Sanford B. Dole (1844–1926), American politician and judge
 * Sanford Jay Frank (1954–2014), American television writer
 * Sanford Friedman (1928–2011), American novelist
 * Sanford Garelik (1918–2011), American politician
 * Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823–1880), American landscape painter
 * Sanford Gold (1911–1984), American jazz pianist
 * Sanford M. Green (1807–1901), American judge
 * Sanford J. Grossman (born 1953), American economist and historian
 * Sanford Hunt (1881–1943), American football player and newspaper editor
 * Sanford Jackson (1909–2000), Canadian biochemist
 * Sanford M. Jacoby (born 1953), American economist
 * Sanford Kadish (1921–2014), American criminal law scholar
 * Sanford Brown Kellogg (1822–1893), American lawyer and politician
 * Sanford Kirkpatrick (1842–1932), American politician
 * Sanford "Sandy" Koufax (born 1935), American Major League Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher
 * Sanford Kwinter, Canadian-American writer and publisher
 * Sanford R. Leigh (born 1934), American civil rights activist
 * Sanford Levinson (born 1941), American legal scholar
 * Sanford Lieberson (born 1936), American film producer
 * Sanford N. McDonnell (1922–2012), American businessman
 * Sanford Meisner (1905–1997), American actor and acting teacher
 * Sanford K. Moats (1921–2023), American Air Force officer
 * Sanford A. Moeller (1886–1960), American musician
 * Sanford Alexander Moss (1872–1946), American aviation engineer
 * Sanford Palay (1918–2002), American scientist and educator
 * Sanford Panitch, American film executive
 * Sanford Plummer (1905–1974), Native American painter
 * Sanford Jacob Ramey (1798–1866), American politician
 * Sanford Ransdell (1781–1854), American pioneer and soldier
 * Sanford E. Reisenbach (1932–2015), American marketing executive
 * Sanford Rosenthal (1897-1989), American scientist
 * Sanford Ross (1907–1954), American painter and printmaker
 * Sanford H. Roth (1906–1962), American photographer
 * Sanford Schram (born 1949), American political scientist and author
 * Sanford L. Segal (1937–2010), American mathematician
 * Sanford C. Sigoloff (1930-2011), American businessman
 * Sanford W. Smith (1869–1929), American judge
 * Sanford Socolow (1928–2015), American broadcast journalist
 * Sanford L. Steelman, Jr. (born 1951), American judge
 * Sanford Sylvan (1953–2019), American baritone
 * Sanford E. Thompson (1867–1949), American engineer
 * Sanford J. Ungar (born 1945), American journalist and author
 * Sanford Wallace (born 1968), notorious American "Spam King"
 * Sanford I. Weill (born 1933), American banker
 * Sanford Wheeler (born 1970), first African-American Australian rules football player
 * Sanford White (1888–1964), American football and baseball player
 * Sanford Calvin Yoder (1879–1975), American Mennonite pastor and scholar
 * Sanford Yung (1927–2013), Hong Kong accountant and politician
 * Sanford Myron Zeller (1885–1948), American mycologist