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Sandra Pires

Sandra Pires (Sandra Tavares Pires Nascimento), born in 1973 in Rio de Janeiro, is a Brazilian beach volleyball player who won Olympic gold at Atlanta 1996 with Jackie Silva.

Sandra Postel

Sandra Postel is an American water scientist who directs the Global Water Policy Project and won the 2021 Stockholm Water Prize for her work on water scarcity.

Sandra Prokoff Kiriasis

Sandra Prokoff Kiriasis (born 1975, Dresden), German bobsleigh pilot; Olympic gold 2006 Turin and silver 2002 Salt Lake City in two-woman bob; nine straight World Cup overall titles 2003–11, 45 race wins, seven world titles; later coached Jamaican, Israeli, and Nigerian teams.

Sandra Reyes

Sandra Reyes Robledo (Sandra Reyes), Colombian actress from Bogotá, died 1 December 2024 at 49 of breast cancer; famed as doctora Paula in Pedro el Escamoso, Cielo in Metástasis, and Aracely in Rigo.

Sandra S. Beckwith

Sandra S. Beckwith, born Sandra Shank Beckwith, is a senior United States district judge of the Southern District of Ohio, appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1992.

Sandra Savino

Sandra Savino is an Italian Forza Italia politician serving as Undersecretary of State for Economy and Finance and as the party's regional secretary in Friuli Venezia Giulia.

Sandra Schmirler

Sandra Schmirler (1963-2000), Canadian curler, "Schmirler the Curler," skipped Canada to the first women's Olympic curling gold at Nagano 1998 and three world titles (1993, 1994, 1997); died of cancer at 36; namesake of a neonatal-care foundation.

Sandra Seuser

Sandra Maria Seuser (born 1966) is a German former 400m sprinter, SC Charlottenburg, 1991 World Indoor 4x400m relay champion and world indoor record holder (3:27.22, Sevilla), German indoor 400m champion 1991.

Sandra Smith (reporter)

Sandra Smith (Sandra Kaye Smith, born 1980, Wheaton, Illinois) is an American TV news anchor, co-anchor of Fox News Channel's America Reports with John Roberts. She joined Fox Business Network in 2007 after a finance career at Aegis, Hermitage, and Terra Nova, and in 2015 co-moderated, with Trish Regan, the first dual-female team to host a presidential primary debate.

Sandra Van Scotter

Sandra Van Scotter is an American Democrat running for the U.S. House in California's 20th district in 2026, after careers as a respiratory therapist and disability services worker.

Sandra Vergara

Sandra Vergara (Sandra Vergara Medina), born 1988 in Barranquilla, is a Colombian actress, model, and presenter, adopted sister of Sofía Vergara, known for Fright Night (2011) and Selling Sunset season 9.

Sandra Whyte

Sandra Whyte (Sweeney), born 1970 in Saugus, Massachusetts, is an American ice hockey center who played for Harvard and won gold in the first Olympic women's hockey tournament at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games, with three World Championship silvers.

Sandra Yi Sencindiver

Sandra Yi Sencindiver, Korean-American-Danish actress born 1980 in Busan; plays Enjoiner Rue in Foundation, Lady Amalisa in The Wheel of Time, Yuji Lee in Geek Girl, and Yutani in Alien: Earth; danskdansk co-founder and A Bigger Picture spokesperson.

Sandral Hullett

Sandral Hullett (died 2024) was an American family physician and hospital executive who was the first African American female hospital CEO in Alabama, leading Cooper Green Mercy Hospital in Birmingham.

SandRidge Energy

SandRidge Energy is an independent oil and natural gas company founded in 2006 and headquartered in Oklahoma City, with operations in Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas, and known for Mississippian Lime development.

Sandrine Bonnaire

Sandrine Bonnaire (born 1967, Gannat, France) is a French actress, director, and screenwriter, not to be confused with namesakes; revealed by Pialat's À nos amours (1983), two-time César winner, Venice Volpi Cup 1995, and director of Elle s'appelle Sabine.

Sandrine Etienne-Manneville

Sandrine Etienne-Manneville is a French cell biologist who leads the Cell Polarity, Migration, and Cancer laboratory at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, studying glioblastoma invasion.

Sandrine Holt

Sandrine Holt, born Sandrine Vanessa Ho (1972, London), is a British-born Canadian actress and former Paris runway model. Debuting in Black Robe (1991, Genie nomination), she is known for House of Cards, Homeland, MacGyver, Better Call Saul, and Cronenberg's The Shrouds (2024).

Sandrine Le Feur

Sandrine Le Feur (born 1991 in Saint-Brieuc) is a French politician of Renaissance, deputy for Finistère's fourth constituency since 2017 and chair of the Committee on Sustainable Development and Spatial Planning since 2024.

Sandrine Thuret

Sandrine Thuret is a French neuroscientist and professor at King's College London who studies how diet, exercise, and mood affect new neuron formation in the adult hippocampus.

Sandringham House

Sandringham House is a country mansion in Norfolk, England, built in the Jacobean style and completed in 1870 for Edward, Prince of Wales; it remains the British monarch's private residence.

Sandro Botticelli

Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, 1444/5–May 1510), Florentine Renaissance painter of the Primavera and Birth of Venus; Medici patronage, tempera grassa technique, workshop with Filippino Lippi, reputation revived in the 1890s.

Sandro Buzzi

Alessandro "Sandro" Buzzi (1933–2023) was an Italian industrialist who led the family cement firm Fratelli Buzzi, and later Buzzi Unicem, growing it into a group of 39 cement plants in 11 countries.

Sandro Campagna

Sandro Campagna (Alessandro Campagna), born 1963 in Palermo, Italian water polo player and coach; 1992 Olympic gold and 1992–94 Grand Slam with the Settebello, 409 caps; later head coach of Italy (2011, 2019 world titles) and Greece.

Sandro Cuomo

Sandro Cuomo, born 1962 in Naples, is an Italian épée fencer, Olympic team champion at Atlanta 1996 and bronze medalist at Los Angeles 1984, with three world team titles and later national épée coach.

Sandro Galea

Sandro Galea is a physician and epidemiologist who became dean of Washington University's School of Public Health in 2025 after a decade leading Boston University's.

Sandro Gozi

Sandro Gozi is a French politician of Italian origin, a Member of the European Parliament since 2019 and Italy's Secretary of State for European Affairs from 2014 to 2018.

Sandro Greuter

Sandro Greuter (born 1993) is a Swiss rifle shooter in 10m, 50m, and 300m events, national squad member, holder of the 300m three-positions men's team world record (1770, 2025), and multiple Swiss champion.

Sandro of Chegem

Sandro of Chegem (Сандро из Чегема) is a picaresque novel in 32 novellas by Abkhaz writer Fazil Iskander, set in the village of Chegem in Abkhazia.

Sandro Ramírez

Sandro Ramírez (Sandro Ramírez Castillo, born 1995), Spanish striker for UD Las Palmas; ex-Barcelona, Málaga (14 goals in 2016/17) and Everton; renewed to June 2027 after a knee-injury 2025/26.