Sanford (surname)
Sanford is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Adam Sanford, Dominican cricketer
- Agnes Sanford, American Christian writer
- Arlene Sanford, American film and television director
- Chance Sanford, American baseball player
- Charles S. Sanford Jr., American businessman
- Chris Sanford, American retired mixed martial artist
- Claudius Sanford, Dominican politician in the House of Assembly of Dominica
- Curtis Sanford, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
- Donald Sanford, American-Israeli Olympic sprinter
- Edmund Sanford, American psychologist
- Eva Matthews Sanford, American Medieval and Classical Scholar
- Edward Sanford, multiple people
- Fred Sanford, American baseball player
- Fred Sanford, American musician
- Garwin Sanford, Canadian actor
- Henry Shelton Sanford, American diplomat and businessman, founder of the city of Sanford, Florida.
- Isabel Sanford, American actress and comedian
- Jack Sanford, American baseball player
- Jack Sanford, American baseball player
- James Sanford, multiple people
- John A. Sanford, also known as Jack, American Jungian psychoanalyst and Episcopal priest
- John C. Sanford, American plant geneticist and advocate of intelligent design and young earth creationism
- John E. Sanford, U.S. politician in Massachusetts
- John Elroy Sanford, birth name of American comedian Redd Foxx
- John F. A. Sanford, one party to the U.S. Supreme Court case of Dred Scott v. Sandford
- John Langton Sanford, English historical writer
- John Sanford, American author and screenwriter, born Julian Lawrence Shapiro
- John Sanford , founder of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA
- John Sanford , U.S. Representative from New York
- John Sanford , U.S. Representative from New York
- John W. A. Sanford, United States Congressional Representative from the state of Georgia
- Katherine Sanford, American cancer biologist
- Kiki Sanford, American neurophysiologist and science communicator
- Leonard Cutler Sanford, American surgeon and ornithologist
- Lillias Rumsey Sanford, American school founder
- Linda Sanford, American technology executive
- Louis Childs Sanford, American Episcopal bishop
- Lucius Sanford, American American football player
- Maria L. Sanford, American educator
- Mark Sanford, American South Carolina politician
- Mike Sanford, American college football coach
- Mike Sanford Jr., American football coach
- Mitchell Sanford, New York politician
- Nathan Sanford, New York politician, US Senator
- Nehemiah Curtis Sanford, American industrialist and politician
- Reuben Sanford, New York politician
- Richard K. Sanford, New York politician
- Roscoe Frank Sanford, American astronomer
- Scott Sanford, American politician, accountant, and Baptist clergyman
- T. Denny Sanford, American businessman and philanthropist
- Taylor Sanford, American baseball player, coach, and college athletics administrator
- Terry Sanford, American governor and senator from North Carolina
- Vincent Sanford, American basketball player
- William Ayshford Sanford, naturalist and Colonial Secretary of Western Australia
- William Eli Sanford, Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and politician
- Winifred Sanford, American writer
Fictional characters
- Fred G. Sanford, of the TV series Sanford and Son
- Lamont Sanford, of the TV series Sanford and Son portrayed by Demond Wilson
