Sandy

Sandy

__forcetoc__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."

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 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
* Sandy Patch, nickname of Alexander McCarrell Patch (1889-1945), general of US Army in World War II

Fictional characters named Sandy include:
* 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 Chinese epic "Journey to the West"

Other

* Sandy (song), a song by the Carpenters. It is featured on their seventh album from 1976, "A Kind Of Hush" (album)
* 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
* "Sandy", 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


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