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Sandy is a popular unisex name; the male version is the Scottish diminutive for "Alexander" or "Alasdair", while the female version is a diminutive for "Sandra" or less commonly "Alexandra." In the 18th and 19th centuries, "Sandy" or "Sawney" was used as a pejorative term for Scottish people, but was gradually replaced by Jock.
Notable people named Sandy include:
Women:
Men:
Fictional characters named Sandy include:
- Sandy (song), a song by the Carpenters. It is featured on their seventh album from 1976 "A Kind Of Hush".
- SANDY The character from TV series 'Monkey Magic' played by Shiro Kishibe
- 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy), a song by Bruce Springsteen
- Sandy (band), an Iranian rap group playing bandari music that became famous in the late 90s
- Sandy Records, a short-lived rock and roll record label in Mobile, Alabama in the late 1950s and early 1960s
- Sandy (Sandy Denny album), by British singer-songwriter Sandy Denny
- Operation Sandy - launch of two V-2 rockets beginning September 6, 1947, from the USS Midway aircraft carrier (preceded by Operation Pushover to identify the risk of a fallen missile)[1]
- Sandy is the name given by the USAF to aircraft escorting CSAR helicopters, with A-1 Skyraiders most commonly being given this nickname.
- Sandy (mouse) or SDY, a dysbindin knockout mouse.
[edit] References
- , Kennedy, Gregory P. (1983). Vengeance Weapon 2: The V-2 Guided Missile. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, p62.
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