# Sandy (given name)

Sandy is a popular unisex given name or nickname. 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
* 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"
* Sandy Hollway, Australian public servant
* Sandy Jardine (1948–2014), Scottish footballer
* Sandy Koufax (born 1935), American Major League Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher
* Sandy Lyle (born 1958), Scottish golfer
* 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
* 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 Walsh (born 1995), Indonesian footballer
* 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 Chan (born 1986), Hong Kong former swimmer who specialized in butterfly events
* 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 Donatucci, American politician
* 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