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Sandro Romani
Sandro Romani is a computational and systems neuroscientist who leads a lab at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, where he studies how hippocampal and cortical circuits encode information.
Sandro Rosta
Sandro Rosta is an actor who plays Caleb Mir, lead cadet in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (2026, Paramount+), his first professional screen role after training at Oxford School of Drama; also known for Snitches Get Stitches (2021).
Sandro Sukno
Sandro Sukno is a Croatian water polo coach and former player, born in Dubrovnik in 1990, who won Olympic gold in 2012 and leads Pro Recco.
Sandro Tonali
Sandro Tonali, born 2000 in Lodi, is an Italian midfielder for Tottenham Hotspur and Italy (32 caps). Brescia and AC Milan graduate, 2022 Scudetto winner, joined Newcastle 2023, served a 10-month betting ban, won the 2025 Carabao Cup, and moved to Spurs in July 2026 for a reported €108 million.
Sandro Vento
Sandro Vento is an Italian-trained infectious diseases physician-researcher known for a 1998 New England Journal of Medicine study showing hepatitis A superinfection runs a frequently fatal course in chronic hepatitis C patients.
Sandro Viletta
Sandro Viletta (born 1986) is a Swiss former alpine ski racer who won the men's combined gold at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, the first Swiss skier to do so.
Sandro Wagner
Sandro Wagner (born 1987) is a German football coach and former striker, 2017 Confederations Cup winner with 8 Germany caps, ex-Bayern and Hoffenheim forward, now Hannover 96 head coach after a brief Augsburg tenure.
Sandrone (Genshin Impact)
Sandrone (桑多涅), codename Marionette, is the Seventh of the Eleven Fatui Harbingers in Genshin Impact, a puppet created by Alain Guillotin in his dead sister Mary-Ann's image; destroyed by Dottore, she returned as a 5-star Cryo Claymore playable character in Version Luna VIII (July 2026).
Sands Capital Global Innovation
Sands Capital Global Innovation is a family of growth-equity funds from Sands Capital in Arlington, Virginia, launched in 2018 to invest in technology companies worldwide.
Sands Hotel and Casino
Sands Hotel and Casino, a Las Vegas Strip resort open 1952 to 1996, famed for its Copa Room and Rat Pack shows; bought by Hughes, then Adelson, imploded for the Venetian.
Sands Macau
Sands Macau, also written Sands Macao, is a casino hotel and entertainment complex on the Macau peninsula, China, owned by Las Vegas Sands and opened in 2004.
Sands of Beirut
The Sands of Beirut are prehistoric Stone-Age sites on the coastline and Ras Beirut promontory of Beirut, Lebanon, spanning the Paleolithic to the Chalcolithic and including the Natufian site of Ain Chaub.
Sands of Iwo Jima
Sands of Iwo Jima (Heltene fra Iwo Jima) is a 1949 Republic Pictures war film directed by Allan Dwan, starring John Wayne as Sergeant Stryker; shot at Camp Pendleton with Marine cooperation, it earned four Oscar nominations and nearly $4 million in domestic rentals.
Sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock of sand-sized grains cemented together, typically rich in quartz; it stores groundwater and over 60 percent of giant oil fields.
Sandstorm (instrumental)
Sandstorm is a 1999 instrumental trance single by Finnish producer Darude (Toni-Ville Henrik Virtanen), released on 16 Inch Records at 136 BPM; UK #3, US #23, and the source of the "Darude – Sandstorm" meme.
Sandton
Sandton is Johannesburg's northern business district, formed as a municipality in 1969 from Sandown and Bryanston areas; Sandton City opened 1973, and it is now called Africa's richest square mile.
Sandu Popescu
Sandu Popescu is a theoretical physicist and Royal Society Fellow at the University of Bristol, a pioneer of quantum information known for work on entanglement, nonlocality, and PR boxes.
Sandusky, Ohio
Sandusky, Ohio: county seat of Erie County on Sandusky Bay, Lake Erie; founded 1818 on the Firelands with a Masonic street grid; home of Cedar Point; population 25,095 (2020).
Sandvik
Sandvik AB is a Swedish engineering group founded in 1862 by Göran Fredrik Göransson, first to use the Bessemer steel process industrially, now focused on mining and machining.
Sandvik Materials Technology
Sandvik Materials Technology was a business area of Swedish engineering group Sandvik AB making advanced stainless steels and special alloys, renamed Alleima AB in 2022.
Sandwell
Sandwell: metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, formed 1974 from six towns (West Bromwich, Oldbury, Smethwick, Wednesbury, Tipton, Rowley Regis). Black Country borough of 341,835 people (2021), governed by Sandwell Council.
Sandwich
A sandwich, informally a sarnie, is a food made by placing a filling between two slices of bread, named after John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, in 1762.
Sandwich (2006 film)
Sandwich (2006), earlier titled Hum Do Hamaara Ek, is a Hindi comedy directed and written by Anees Bazmee, produced by Smita Thackeray, starring Govinda in a double role with Raveena Tandon and Mahima Chaudhry; delayed about five years, released August 25, 2006, and a box-office failure.
Sandwich assay
A sandwich assay is a biochemical detection method in which two antibodies bind different sites on a target molecule, the most commonly used and most sensitive ELISA format.
Sandwich compound
A sandwich compound is an organometallic complex in which a metal atom sits between two parallel planar rings; the archetype is ferrocene, first synthesized in 1951.
Sandwich ELISA
Sandwich ELISA is an immunoassay in which a capture antibody and a detection antibody bind an antigen, quantifying cytokines, hormones, and biomarkers in serum and other samples.
Sandwich generation
Sandwich generation: middle-aged adults simultaneously caring for aging parents and their own children; term coined in the 1980s for Baby Boomers; about a quarter of U.S. adults now qualify per Pew.
Sandwich, Kent
Sandwich is a small town in north-east Kent, England, on the River Stour about 3 km from the coast, and one of the five original Cinque Ports.
Sandworm (Dune)
Sandworm (Shai-Hulud), the fictional giant desert creature of Frank Herbert's 1965 novel Dune on planet Arrakis; its sandtrout larva and lifecycle produce the spice melange; film worms 400 m long; scientists say giant worms are implausible.
Sandworms of Dune
Sandworms of Dune (2007), by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson (Tor, August 21, 2007), is the eighth Dune Chronicles novel and part two of the Hunters of Dune finale based on Frank Herbert's Dune 7 outline, resolving the human-machine war, the Honored Matres' origin, and the final Kwisatz Haderach at Kralizec.