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Sandy Miller
Sandy Miller is a venture capitalist and general partner at Institutional Venture Partners, where he joined in 2006 and co-led investments in Zynga and Supercell, appearing nine times on the Forbes Midas List.
Sandy Neilson
Sandy Neilson (Sandra Lynn Neilson, later Neilson-Bell), American swimmer born 1956, won three 1972 Munich Olympic golds including the 100m freestyle at 16, later set Masters world records and coaches in Austin, Texas.
Sandy O'Brien
Sandy O'Brien, also known as Sandra O'Brien, is a Republican member of the Ohio Senate representing the 32nd district, after serving three terms as Ashtabula County Auditor.
Sandy Petersen
Sandy Petersen (born 1955) is an American game designer, principal author of the Call of Cthulhu RPG (Chaosium, 1981), Doom/Quake level designer at id Software, Age of Empires designer at Ensemble Studios, and founder of Petersen Games (Cthulhu Wars).
Sandy Springs, Georgia
Sandy Springs, Georgia: Fulton County city incorporated December 1, 2005, first new Georgia city since 1959; known for pioneering public-private partnership government; 2020 population 108,080.
Sandy West
Sandy West (Sandra Sue Pesavento, 1959–2006), American drummer, singer, and songwriter; co-founder and drummer of the all-female hard rock band the Runaways with Joan Jett, known for "Cherry Bomb" and pioneering female hard-rock drumming.
Sandy Wexler
Sandy Wexler is a 2017 Netflix comedy starring Adam Sandler as a 1990s Los Angeles talent manager based on Sandy Wernick; directed by Steven Brill, co-starring Jennifer Hudson, released April 14, 2017, 130 minutes.
Sandy Woodward
Admiral Sir John "Sandy" Woodward (1932–2013), Royal Navy submariner and admiral who tactically commanded the Falklands task force TF 317 from HMS Hermes in 1982, wrote One Hundred Days, and never became First Sea Lord.
Sandžak
Sandžak (Sanjak of Novi Pazar) is a cross-border region of southwestern Serbia and Montenegro, capital Novi Pazar, with a Bosniak Muslim majority, an Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian past, a 1991 autonomy referendum, and 1990s human rights abuses.
Sandžak Muslim militia
Sandžak Muslim militia: local Bosniak self-defense formations, also called 'Muslim army', active 1941–1945 in the Serbia-Montenegro border region against Chetnik attacks; led by commanders such as Sulejman Pačariz; contested quisling versus defensive legacy.
Sane Guruji
Sane Guruji (साने गुरुजी), born Pandurang Sadashiv Sane (1899–1950), was a Marathi teacher, freedom fighter, and prolific writer best known for Shyamchi Aai, an autobiographical novel about his mother.
Sane/Ouranopolis
Sane/Ouranopolis (Σάνη, Οὐρανόπολις): ancient Greek cities on the Acte peninsula of Chalkidice near Nea Roda; Sane was a 7th-century BC Andrian colony on Xerxes' canal, refounded as Ouranopolis in 315 BC by Alexarchus.
Sanechips Technology (中兴微电子)
Sanechips Technology (中兴微电子) is a Shenzhen-based fabless chip design house founded by ZTE in 2003 and still wholly owned by it, known for 7nm 5G chips.
Sanela Diana Jenkins
Sanela Diana Jenkins, also known as Sanela Ćatić, is a Bosnian-born entrepreneur and philanthropist who fled the 1992 Siege of Sarajevo and founded Neuro Brands.
Sanepar
Sanepar (Companhia de Saneamento do Paraná) is a Brazilian publicly listed water and sanitation utility controlled by the state of Paraná, founded in 1963, serving 345 municipalities from Curitiba.
Sanewashing
Sanewashing: press-criticism term for packaging radical or incoherent statements, especially Donald Trump's 2024 campaign remarks, as normal, coherent political discourse; coined around 2020, popularized by Parker Molloy in 2024.
Sanfer
Sanfer (Laboratorios Sanfer) is an independent, family-owned Mexican pharmaceutical company founded in 1941 and headquartered in Mexico City, selling prescription, oncology, OTC, and veterinary products across Latin America.
Sanfilippo syndrome
Sanfilippo syndrome (mucopolysaccharidosis type III, MPS III) is an autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorder with four subtypes (SGSH, NAGLU, HGSNAT, GNS) causing heparan sulfate accumulation, childhood neurodegeneration, and, since 2025, the first FDA-approved gene therapy, Fayuvi.
Sanford A. Asher
Sanford A. Asher was an American physical and analytical chemist at the University of Pittsburgh who pioneered ultraviolet resonance Raman spectroscopy and invented photonic crystal hydrogel chemical sensors.
Sanford and Son
Sanford and Son, NBC sitcom (1972–1977) adapted from Britain's Steptoe and Son by Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin; Redd Foxx as junk dealer Fred Sanford, Demond Wilson as Lamont; first predominantly Black-cast network hit since Amos 'n' Andy.
Sanford B. Dole
Sanford Ballard Dole (1844–1926) was a Hawaiian-born lawyer and judge who led the 1893 overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani and became the first governor of Hawaii Territory.
Sanford B. Krantz
Sanford B. Krantz was an American physician-scientist and hematologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who established pure red-cell aplasia as an autoimmune disease treatable with immunosuppressive drugs.
Sanford D. Markowitz
Sanford D. Markowitz is an American medical oncologist and cancer geneticist at Case Western Reserve University whose laboratory identified key colon cancer genes and founded Rodeo Therapeutics, sold to Amgen in 2021.
Sanford I. Roth
Sanford I. Roth is an American pathologist, Professor Emeritus of Pathology at Northwestern University, known for research on parathyroid pathology in hyperparathyroidism and kidney disease.
Sanford I. Weill
Sanford I. Weill, known as Sandy Weill, is an American banker and dealmaker who assembled Citigroup, the first American financial company since 1933 to combine banking, securities, and insurance.
Sanford J. Shattil
Sanford J. Shattil, also known as Sanford Shattil, is an American hematologist and Emeritus Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego, known for work on platelet integrin αIIbβ3 signaling.
Sanford Jay Grossman
Sanford Jay Grossman is an American economist and hedge-fund manager who won the 1987 John Bates Clark Medal and co-founded incomplete-contracting theory with Oliver Hart.
Sanford M. Simon
Sanford M. Simon is an American cell biologist and biophysicist at The Rockefeller University known for imaging single molecules in living cells and studying fibrolamellar carcinoma.
Sanford Meisner
Sanford Meisner (1905–1997), American actor and Group Theatre founding member, created the Meisner Technique of actor training, centered on the repetition exercise, 'living truthfully under imaginary circumstances,' and over 60 years teaching at the Neighborhood Playhouse.
Sanford Palay
Sanford Palay (1918–2002) was an American cell biologist and Harvard Medical School professor who used the electron microscope to establish the fine structure of neurons and synapses, becoming a founder of modern neurocytology.