Sanford (given name)
Sanford is a male given name of Old English origin, meaning "sandy ford". Notable people with the name include:
- Sanford Barsky, American professor of pathology
- Sanford Bates, American politician and administrator
- Sanford Berman, American librarian
- Sanford I. Berman, American philanthropist and author
- Sanford Dennis Biggar, Canadian politician
- Sanford Diller, American billionaire
- Sanford Biggers, American artist
- Sanford Bishop, American politician
- Sanford Bookstaver, American television director
- Sanford Brown , American Methodist minister
- Sanford E. Church, American lawyer and politician
- Sanford Clark, American singer and guitarist
- Sanford Lockwood Cluett, American businessman and inventor
- Sanford Coats, American federal attorney
- Sanford Johnston Crowe, Canadian politician
- Sanford B. Dole, American politician and judge
- Sanford Jay Frank, American television writer
- Sanford Faulkner, American composer of "The Arkansas Traveler"
- Sanford Friedman, American novelist
- Sanford Garelik, American politician
- Sanford Robinson Gifford, American landscape painter
- Sanford Gold, American jazz pianist
- Sanford M. Green, American judge
- Sanford J. Grossman, American economist and historian
- Sanford Hunt, American football player and newspaper editor
- Sanford Jackson, Canadian biochemist
- Sanford M. Jacoby, American economist
- Sanford Kadish, American criminal law scholar
- Sanford Brown Kellogg, American lawyer and politician
- Sanford Kirkpatrick, American politician
- Sanford "Sandy" Koufax, American Major League Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher
- Sanford Kwinter, Canadian-American writer and publisher
- Sanford R. Leigh, American civil rights activist
- Sanford Levinson, American legal scholar
- Sanford Lieberson, American film producer
- Sanford N. McDonnell, American businessman
- Sanford Meisner, American actor and acting teacher
- Sanford K. Moats, American Air Force officer
- Sanford A. Moeller, American musician
- Sanford Alexander Moss, American aviation engineer
- Sanford Palay, American scientist and educator
- Sanford Panitch, American film executive
- Sanford Plummer, Native American painter
- Sanford Jacob Ramey, American politician
- Sanford Ransdell, American pioneer and soldier
- Sanford E. Reisenbach, American marketing executive
- Sanford Rosenthal, American scientist
- Sanford Ross, American painter and printmaker
- Sanford H. Roth, American photographer
- Sanford Schram, American political scientist and author
- Sanford L. Segal, American mathematician
- Sanford C. Sigoloff, American businessman
- Sanford W. Smith, American judge
- Sanford Socolow, American broadcast journalist
- Sanford L. Steelman, Jr., American judge
- Sanford Sylvan, American baritone
- Sanford E. Thompson, American engineer
- Sanford J. Ungar, American journalist and author
- Sanford Wallace, notorious American "Spam King"
- Sanford I. Weill, American banker
- Sanford Wheeler, first African-American Australian rules football player
- Sanford White, American football and baseball player
- Sanford Calvin Yoder, American Mennonite pastor and scholar
- Sanford Yung, Hong Kong accountant and politician
- Sanford Myron Zeller, American mycologist
Fictional characters
- Sanford Scolex, the main villain of Inspector Gadget, the 1999 film, and its 2003 sequel, portrayed by Rupert Everett and Tony Martin respectively
