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'''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." 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:
'''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]]
* Sandy Chun AKA sandystructible
'''Men:'''
* [[Sawney Bean|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
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 book and TV series ''[[Monkey]]''
==Other==
* [[Sandy (song)]], a song by [[the Carpenters]]. It is featured on their seventh album from 1976 "A Kind Of Hush"
* 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)|''Sandy'' (Sandy Denny album)]], by British singer-songwriter Sandy Denny
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*'''Sandy''', the name given by the USAF to aircraft escorting CSAR helicopters, with [[A-1 Skyraider]]s most commonly being given this nickname
* [[Sandy (mouse)]] or SDY, a [[dysbindin]] knockout mouse
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