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Sandy (choreographer)
Sandy, also known as Sandy Master, is an Indian dance choreographer and actor born Santhosh Kumar in 1986 in Chennai, known for choreographing songs like "Pathala Pathala".
Sandy (singer)
Sandy, born Sandy Leah Lima, is a Brazilian pop singer who rose to fame in the duo Sandy & Junior and has pursued a solo career since 2010.
Sandy Allen
Sandy Allen (Sandra Elaine Allen, 1955-2008), American recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's tallest woman at 231.7 cm (7 ft 7.2 in), due to pituitary gigantism; actress in Fellini's Casanova and subject of Split Enz's "Hello Sandy Allen".
Sandy Alomar Jr.
Sandy Alomar Jr. (Santos Alomar Jr.), born 1966 in Salinas, Puerto Rico, is a former MLB catcher, 1990 AL Rookie of the Year and Gold Glove winner, six-time All-Star with the Cleveland Indians, now Cleveland's first-base and catching coach.
Sandy Archer
Sandy Archer (Alexander Archer, 1910-1997), British ice hockey right-winger raised in Winnipeg, won 1936 Olympic gold with Great Britain despite a CAHA eligibility dispute, then won European titles in 1937 and 1938; distinct from Saskatchewan trainer Roy "Sandy" Archer.
Sandy Bridge
Sandy Bridge is a 32 nm Intel microarchitecture, launched in January 2011 in the 2nd Generation Core i3, i5, and i7 processors as the successor to Nehalem and Westmere.
Sandy Chang
Sandy Chang is a Taiwanese-born American physician-scientist and pathologist at Yale School of Medicine whose laboratory studies telomeres, known for the first faithful mouse model of Werner syndrome and work on the shelterin protein POT1.
Sandy Cheeks
Sandy Cheeks (Sandra Jennifer Olivia Cheeks) is a fictional Texan squirrel in SpongeBob SquarePants, voiced by Carolyn Lawrence since 1999, living in an air-filled treedome, a karate-practicing scientist who headlines Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie.
Sandy Cowan
Sandy Cowan (Alexander Cowan, 1879-1915), Canadian lacrosse player; won gold with the Winnipeg Shamrocks at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics, beating the Mohawk Indians and St. Louis AAA; career with BC clubs.
Sandy Crawford
Sandy Crawford is an American Republican politician, a member of the Missouri Senate representing the 28th district, elected in 2017 after six years in the Missouri House.
Sandy Dennis
Sandy Dennis (Sandra Dale Dennis, 1937–1992), American stage and film actress; Oscar winner as Honey in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) and two-time Tony winner known for nervous, mannered Method-style performances.
Sandy Denny
Sandy Denny (Alexandra Elene MacLean Denny, 1947–1978), British folk-rock singer-songwriter; Fairport Convention lead singer 1968–69, Fotheringay founder, four solo albums, wrote "Who Knows Where the Time Goes", duetted on Led Zeppelin's "The Battle of Evermore".
Sandy desert
Sandy desert (erg, sand sea): a desert of wind-blown sand dunes and sand sheets, called nafud, edeyen, or kum regionally; covers only about a quarter of the world's deserts, the rest being rocky.
Sandy Duncan
Sandy Duncan (Sandra Kay Duncan, born 1946, Texas) is an American actress, dancer, and singer known for her Tony-nominated Peter Pan on Broadway (1979, 554 performances), the sitcoms Funny Face and The Hogan Family, and an Emmy-nominated role in Roots, after losing sight in one eye to a brain tumor in 1971.
Sandy Feng
Sandy Feng is an American transplant surgeon at UCSF who performs liver, kidney, and pancreas transplants and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023.
Sandy Gilchrist
Sandy Gilchrist, born John Alexander Gilchrist, is a Canadian swimmer who competed at the 1964 and 1968 Olympics, finishing fifth in the 400 meter individual medley both times.
Sandy Hawkins
Sandy Hawkins, also known as Sandy the Golden Boy, is a DC Comics superhero introduced in 1941 as the teenage sidekick of the original Sandman.
Sandy Helberg
Sandy Helberg, born 1949 in Frankfurt and raised in Toledo, Ohio, is an American actor and writer, original Groundlings member, Mel Brooks film actor (Spaceballs), Golden Girls sitcom writer, and father of Simon Helberg.
Sandy Hill (mountaineer)
Sandy Hill (born 1955), formerly Sandy Hill Pittman, American socialite and mountaineer; second American woman to climb the Seven Summits; survived the 1996 Everest disaster as a Mountain Madness client.
Sandy Hook
Sandy Hook is a 10-km barrier spit in Monmouth County, New Jersey, a unit of Gateway National Recreation Area. Home of the 1764 Sandy Hook Lighthouse, the oldest surviving in the United States, and Fort Hancock, it is distinct from Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Newtown, Connecticut, December 14, 2012: Adam Lanza killed 20 children and 6 educators; aftermath included a gun-buying surge, Connecticut gun laws, and a $73 million Remington settlement.
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting conspiracy theories
False claims that the December 14, 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, which killed 20 children and six educators, was staged with crisis actors; promoted by Alex Jones, they led to harassment and billion-dollar defamation judgments.
Sandy Hook families v. Remington Arms
Sandy Hook families v. Remington Arms, formally Soto et al. v. Bushmaster Firearms International, was a wrongful-death lawsuit by nine Sandy Hook families settled for $73 million in 2022.
Sandy Hook School rebuilding and memorial
After the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting, Newtown demolished the old school and opened a $50 million replacement in 2016, with a separate memorial dedicated in 2022.
Sandy Island, New Caledonia
Sandy Island (Sable Island) was a phantom island charted in the Coral Sea northwest of New Caledonia from an 1876 whaling ship sighting until Australian scientists undiscovered it in 2012, finding 1,300-meter-deep ocean.
Sandy Koufax
Sandy Koufax (Sanford Koufax), born 1935, Brooklyn-born left-handed Dodgers pitcher 1955-1966; three Cy Youngs, five straight ERA titles, four no-hitters including a 1965 perfect game, youngest Hall of Fame inductee (1972), retired at 30 with arthritis.
Sandy Lake tragedy
The Sandy Lake tragedy was the death of about 400 Ojibwe in 1850–1851, after US officials moved treaty payments to Sandy Lake, Minnesota Territory, to force removal.
Sandy Lerner
Sandy Lerner, also known as Sandra Lerner, is an American technology entrepreneur who co-founded Cisco Systems in 1984, was forced out in 1990, and founded Urban Decay cosmetics.
Sandy Lyle
Sandy Lyle (Alexander Walter Barr Lyle, born 1958) is a Scottish golfer, 1985 Open champion and 1988 Masters champion, the first UK winner of the green jacket, with 18 European Tour wins and 2012 World Golf Hall of Fame induction.
Sandy MacIver
Sandy MacIver (Alexandra MacIver), born 1998 in Winsford, is a goalkeeper for Washington Spirit and Scotland. Former England youth Golden Glove winner at the 2018 U-20 World Cup, one England cap, Scottish since October 2023.