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Sándor

Gender	masculine
Language	Hungarian
Name day	March 18
Other gender
Feminine	Alexandra, Szandra
Origin
Language	Greek
Meaning	"Defender, protector of man"
Other names
Variant form	Alex
Nickname	Sanyi
Cognate	Alexander
Anglicisation	Alexander

Sándor (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈʃaːndor] ^ⓘ) is a Hungarian given name and surname. It is the Hungarian form of Alexander.

It may refer to:

People

Given name

• Sándor Apponyi (1844–1925), Hungarian diplomat, bibliophile, bibliographer and book collector
• Sándor Boldogfai Farkas (1907–1970), Hungarian nobleman, sculptor, medalist
• Sándor Bródy (footballer) (1884–1944), Jewish-Hungarian soccer player
• Sándor Bródy (writer) (1863–1924)
• Sándor Csányi (banker) (born 1953), CEO of OTP Bank Group
• Sándor Csányi (actor) (born 1975), Hungarian actor
• Sandor Earl (born 1989), New Zealand born rugby league player
• Sándor Erdős (born 1947), Hungarian Olympic champion épée fencer
• Sándor Fábry (born 1953), Hungarian comedian, talk show host, and writer
• Sándor Farkas de Boldogfa (1880–1946), Hungarian nobleman and colonel
• Sándor Fazekas (born 1963), Hungarian jurist and politician
• Sándor Ferenczi (1873–1933), Hungarian psychoanalyst
• Sándor Garbai (1879–1947), Hungarian socialist politician
• Sándor Gáspár (politician) (1917–2002), Hungarian communist politician and trade unionist
• Sándor Gáspár (actor) (born 1956), Hungarian actor
• Sándor Gellér (1925–1996), Hungarian Olympic champion soccer goalkeeper
• Sándor Gombos (1895–1968), Hungarian Olympic champion saber fencer
• Sándor Károlyi (1668–1743), Hungarian aristocrat, statesman and Imperial Feldmarschall
• Sándor Keresztes (1919–2013), Hungarian diplomat and jurist
• Sándor Kocsis (1929–1979), Hungarian footballer
• Sándor Kónya (1923–2002), Hungarian operatic tenor
• Shaolin Sándor Liu (born 1995), Hungarian Olympic champion short track speed skater
• Sandor Martin (born 1993), Spanish boxer
• Sándor Márai (1900–1989), Hungarian poet, novelist, and journalist
• Sándor Mogyorós (1911–1969), Romanian Communist politician and activist of Hungarian ethnicity (also known as Alexandru Moghioroș)
• Sándor Noszály (born 1972), Hungarian tennis player
• Sándor Petőfi (1823–1849), Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary
• Sándor Puhl (1955–2021), Hungarian football referee
• Sándor Radó (1899–1981), Hungarian cartographer and a Soviet military intelligence agent
• Sándor Radó (actor) (1891–1944), Hungarian actor
• Sándor Rott (1868–1942), Hungarian actor
• Sándor Simonyi-Semadam (1864–1946), Hungarian politician
• Sándor Tátrai (1914–1970), Hungarian footballer and manager
• Sándor Tarics (1913–2016), Hungarian water polo player who won a gold medal in the 1936 Summer Olympics
• Sándor Végh (1912–1997), Hungarian/French violinist
• Sándor Weöres (1913–1989), Hungarian poet and author

Surname

• Béla Sándor (1919–1978), Hungarian chess International Master
• György Sándor (1912–2005), Hungarian pianist
• György Sándor (footballer) (born 1984), Hungarian footballer
• István Sándor (disambiguation)
• János Sándor (1860–1922), Hungarian politician
• Judit Sándor lawyer, bioethicist and author
• Károly Sándor (1928–2014), Hungarian footballer
• Pál Sándor (born 1939), Hungarian film director, producer and screenwriter
• Renáta Sándor (born 1990), Hungarian volleyball player
• Tamás Sándor (born 1974), Hungarian football manager and former player

Fictional characters

• Sandor Clegane, nicknamed The Hound, in the fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire and its television adaptation, Game of Thrones
• Emperor Sandor, a recurring character of the Tara Duncan book series
• Sandor, in the book series Lorien Legacies by Pittacus Lore
• Sandor, in the animated TV series Star Blazers