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 (1884–1972), American penologist, administrator and author Sanford Berman (born 1933), American librarian Sanford I. Berman (1924–2015), American philanthropist and author Sanford Dennis Biggar (), Canadian politician Sanford Augustus Brookins (1877–1968), American architect and builder Sanford Diller (1928–2018), American billionaire Sanford Biggers (born 1970), American artist Sanford Bishop (born 1947), American politician Sanford Bookstaver (born 1973), American television director Sanford Brown (writer) (born 1957), American Methodist minister Sanford E. Charron (1917–2008), American politician Sanford E. Church (1815–1880), American lawyer and politician Sanford Clark (1935–2021), American singer and guitarist Sanford Lockwood Cluett (1874–1968), American businessman and inventor Sanford Coats (born 1971), American federal attorney Sanford Johnston Crowe (1868–1931), Canadian politician Sanford B. Dole (1844–1926), American politician and judge Sanford Jay Frank (1954–2014), American television writer Sanford Friedman (1928–2011), American novelist Sanford Garelik (1918–2011), American politician Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823–1880), American landscape painter Sanford Gold (1911–1984), American jazz pianist Sanford M. Green (1807–1901), American judge Sanford J. Grossman (born 1953), American economist and historian Sanford Hunt (1881–1943), American football player and newspaper editor Sanford Jackson (1909–2000), Canadian biochemist Sanford M. Jacoby (born 1953), American economist Sanford Kadish (1921–2014), American criminal law scholar Sanford Brown Kellogg (1822–1893), American lawyer and politician Sanford Kirkpatrick (1842–1932), American politician Sanford "Sandy" Koufax (born 1935), American Major League Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Sanford Kwinter, Canadian-American writer and publisher Sanford R. Leigh (born 1934), American civil rights activist Sanford Levinson (born 1941), American legal scholar Sanford Lieberson (born 1936), American film producer Sanford N. McDonnell (1922–2012), American businessman Sanford Meisner (1905–1997), American actor and acting teacher Sanford K. Moats (1921–2023), American Air Force officer Sanford A. Moeller (1886–1960), American musician Sanford Alexander Moss (1872–1946), American aviation engineer Sanford Palay (1918–2002), American scientist and educator Sanford Panitch, American film executive Sanford Plummer (1905–1974), Native American painter Sanford Jacob Ramey (1798–1866), American politician Sanford Ransdell (1781–1854), American pioneer and soldier Sanford E. Reisenbach (1932–2015), American marketing executive Sanford Rosenthal (1897-1989), American scientist Sanford Ross (1907–1954), American painter and printmaker Sanford H. Roth (1906–1962), American photographer Sanford Schram (born 1949), American political scientist and author Sanford L. Segal (1937–2010), American mathematician Sanford C. Sigoloff (1930-2011), American businessman Sanford W. Smith (1869–1929), American judge Sanford Socolow (1928–2015), American broadcast journalist Sanford L. Steelman, Jr. (born 1951), American judge Sanford Sylvan (1953–2019), American baritone Sanford E. Thompson (1867–1949), American engineer Sanford J. Ungar (born 1945), American journalist and author Sanford Wallace (born 1968), notorious American "Spam King" Sanford I. Weill (born 1933), American banker Sanford Wheeler (born 1970), first African-American Australian rules football player Sanford White (1888–1964), American football and baseball player Sanford Calvin Yoder (1879–1975), American Mennonite pastor and scholar Sanford Yung (1927–2013), Hong Kong accountant and politician Sanford Myron Zeller (1885–1948), American mycologist
See also Sanford (disambiguation)
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