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Sandor Straus
Sandor Straus is a mathematician and investment manager who built the historical data operation behind Renaissance Technologies' Medallion Fund and later ran his own firms.
Sandor Tarics
Sándor Tarics (Alex Tarics), Hungarian water polo center, 1936 Berlin Olympic gold medalist who scored four goals against Malta, later a San Francisco earthquake engineer known for seismic base isolation, and the world's oldest living Olympic champion from 2011 until his death in 2016 at 102.
Sandor Totka
Sándor Tótka (Tótka Sándor), Hungarian sprint kayaker born 1994 in Mezőtúr; Olympic K1 200 m champion at Tokyo 2020, K2 500 m silver at Paris 2024, Youth Olympic gold 2010.
Sándor Wekerle
Sándor Wekerle (Wekerle Sándor, 1848–1921) was a Hungarian politician and economist who served three terms as prime minister of Hungary, in 1892–1895, 1906–1910, and 1917–1918.
Sándor Weöres
Sándor Weöres (Weöres Sándor) was a Hungarian poet, translator, and playwright, born in 1913 and counted among the most significant Hungarian poets of the twentieth century.
Sandor Wladar
Sandor Wladár (Wladár Sándor), Hungarian swimmer born 1963 in Budapest, 1980 Moscow Olympic champion in 200 m backstroke (2:01.93), 1981 European double champion, veterinarian, and President of the Hungarian Swimming Federation since 2017.
Sandosh Kumar P
Sandosh Kumar P is an Indian politician, a Communist Party of India national executive member, and a Rajya Sabha member representing Kerala for the 2022–2028 term.
Sandoval County
Sandoval County is a county in north-central New Mexico with its seat at Bernalillo. Created in 1903, it is New Mexico's third most populous county, with Rio Rancho its largest city.
Sandow power station
Sandow power station was a lignite-fired power station near Rockdale, Texas, operating from 1953 to 2018, built to supply Alcoa's aluminum smelter and later selling power to the Texas grid.
Sandoz Group
Sandoz Group AG is a Basel-based Swiss pharmaceutical company making generic and biosimilar medicines, spun off from Novartis as an independent listed company in 2023.
Sandpainting
Sandpainting (Navajo iikááh; Tibetan dul tson kyil khor) is ephemeral ceremonial art made by sprinkling colored sand and powdered materials, used for Navajo healing rites and Tibetan Buddhist mandalas, then ritually destroyed.
Sandpaper
Sandpaper, also known as glass paper, is a coated abrasive of grains glued to paper or cloth backing, used by hand or machine to smooth surfaces.
Sandpiper
Sandpiper, common name for wading birds of the family Scolopacidae (Calidris, Tringa, and allies), order Charadriiformes; long-billed tactile foragers, long-distance migrants, many species declining and uplisted on the 2024 IUCN Red List.
Sandplay therapy
Sandplay therapy, also known as Jungian or Kalffian sandplay, is a nonverbal psychotherapy in which clients arrange miniature figures in a sand tray to express inner experience.
Sandpoint, Idaho
Sandpoint, Idaho: Bonner County city on Lake Pend Oreille, incorporated 1901/1907, railroad and timber origins, 2025 population about 10,645, recreation economy with Schweitzer ski area and the Long Bridge.
Sandra (singer)
Sandra (Sandra Ann Lauer, born 1962, Saarbrücken) is a German pop singer, former Arabesque lead vocalist, and 1980s Euro-disco star behind "(I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena"; she also sang on Enigma's "Sadeness" with Michael Cretu.
Sandra A. Daugherty
Sandra A. Daugherty was an American physician and epidemiologist who won the 1980 Lasker Award for hypertension research and taught at the University of Nevada.
Sandra Aamodt
Sandra Aamodt is a neuroscientist and science writer, formerly editor in chief of Nature Neuroscience, known for arguing that the brain defends a body-weight set point, making diets fail.
Sandra Ávila Beltrán
Sandra Ávila Beltrán, known as La Reina del Pacífico, was a Mexican woman who served as an intermediary between Colombian cocaine suppliers and Mexican drug cartels, arrested in 2007.
Sandra Bernhard
Sandra Bernhard, born 1955, American comedian, actress, singer, and author; breakout as Masha in Scorsese's The King of Comedy (1983), NSFC Best Supporting Actress winner, Roseanne's Nancy Bartlett, Pose's Nurse Judy, and pioneer of the modern one-woman cabaret-comedy show.
Sandra Brant
Sandra Brant is an American magazine executive who ran Andy Warhol's Interview magazine for 23 years, turning it profitable, then joined Condé Nast's European Vanity Fair in 2008.
Sandra Bullock
Sandra Bullock (born 1964) is an American actress and producer, Oscar winner for The Blind Side, star of Speed, Miss Congeniality, Gravity, and Practical Magic 2, with nearly $5 billion in worldwide box office.
Sandra Bullock filmography
Sandra Bullock filmography: US actress (born 1964) with 38 AFI-catalogued titles from Who Shot Pat? (1990) to Practical Magic 2 (2026); Oscar for The Blind Side, nominated for Gravity; produced Miss Congeniality and All About Steve.
Sandra Caron
Sandra Caron (born Sandra L. Cogan, 1936–2025) was an English actress and writer, sister of singer Alma Cogan, best known as Fanny in Carry On Camping (1969) and as Mumsey/Mumsie on The Crystal Maze (1990–1993, 25 episodes).
Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros, Chicago-born (1954) Chicana writer, author of The House on Mango Street, Woman Hollering Creek, and Caramelo; MacArthur Fellow and 2016 National Medal of Arts recipient.
Sandra Day O'Connor
Sandra Day O'Connor (1930-2023) was the first woman to serve as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1981-2006; confirmed 99-0, she was the decisive swing vote in cases on abortion, affirmative action, and Bush v. Gore.
Sandra Dee
Sandra Dee, stage name of Alexandra Zuck, was an American actress and teenage movie idol of the late 1950s and early 1960s, known for Gidget (1959).
Sandra Diaz-Twine
Sandra Diaz-Twine, born 1974, is the first two-time Survivor winner (Pearl Islands 2003; Heroes vs. Villains 2010), famed for the "as long as it's not me" strategy and later appearances on Game Changers, Winners at War, The Traitors, and Extracted.
Sandra Dickinson
Sandra Dickinson (born Sandra Helen Searles, 1948, Washington, D.C.) is an American-British actress known as Trillian in the 1981 Hitchhiker's Guide TV series, for voice roles in Balto and Gumball, West End theatre, and her Doctor Who family connections.
Sandra E. Black
Sandra E. Black is an American labor and education economist at the University of Texas at Austin, known for research on school quality and student loans.