SANDY

'Sandy' may refer to:

Contents

Places

People

Other

Places

;United Kingdom

★ Sandy, Bedfordshire, England

★ Sandy, Carmarthenshire, Wales
;United States

★ Sandy, Oregon

★ Sandy, Pennsylvania

★ Sandy, Utah

★ Big Sandy, Tennessee

★ Sandy Spring, Maryland

★ Sandy Hook (several places)

People

'Sandy' is a popular unisex name- the male version is the Scottish diminuative for "Alexander," or "Alasdair", while the female version is a diminuative for "Sandra" or less commonly "Alexandra." In the 18th and 19th centuries, "Sandy" or "Sawney" was used as a pejorative term for Scottish people, but was gradually replaced by Jock.
Notable people named Sandy include:

★ Sandy/Sawney Bean, legendary Scottish Cannibal

★ Sandy Brown (musician), Scottish Jazz Clarinettist

★ Sandy Chambers, Italian singer

★ Sandy Denny, British singer and songwriter

★ Sandy Duncan, American singer and actress

★ Sandy Dvore, American artist

★ Sandy Koufax, American baseball pitcher

★ Sandy Mölling, German singer

★ Sandy Woodward, the nickname of British Admiral John Woodward

★ Sandy, the pseudonym of the porn model Zsanett Égerházi

★ Sandy, the singer from the duo Sandy & Junior

★ Sandy Green, British singer and songwriter
Fictional characters named Sandy include:

★ Sanderson Sandy Hawkins, a DC Comics superhero

★ Sandy Cheeks, a character from ''SpongeBob SquarePants''

★ Sandy Olsson, a character from ''Grease''

★ Sha Wujing (Sandy) in the book and TV series ''Monkey''

★ Sandy Cohen, a character in the TV series The OC played by Peter Gallagher

Other

★ 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

★ 'Operation Sandy' - launch of two V-2 rockets beginning September 6, 1947, from the USS Midway aircraft carrier (preceded by Operation Pushover to identify the risk of a fallen missile) Vengeance Weapon 2: The V-2 Guided Missile, , Gregory P., Kennedy, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983,

★ 'Sandy' is the name given by the USAF to aircraft escorting CSAR helicopters, with A-1 Skyraiders most commonly being given this nickname.