Sandy (given name)

Sandy is a popular unisex given name. It is often short for other names. 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 (1927–2025), British newsreader and journalist
• 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
• Sandy Swinburne, American 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 '
• Sandy, a playable character in Supercell game Brawl Stars
• Sandy Bachman, in season 4 of the American television drama series Homeland
• Sandy Bigelow Patterson, in the 2013 American road comedy film Identity Thief
• Sandy Brown, 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 Hogan, a character in the American sitcom television series The Hogan Family
• 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