Sándor

For other uses, see Sandor (disambiguation).

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

Sándor

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

It may refer to:

People

Given name

• Sándor Apponyi (1844–1925) was a Hungarian diplomat, bibliophile, bibliographer and great book collector
• Sándor Boldogfai Farkas (1907–1970), was a Hungarian nobleman, a Hungarian 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
• Vitéz Sándor Farkas de Boldogfa (1880–1946) was a Hungarian nobleman, colonel, captain of the Order of Vitéz of the county of Zala, knight of the Order of the Austrian Iron Crown
• 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 (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 Sörös (born 1951), Hungarian actor
• 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

• György Sándor (1912–2005), Hungarian pianist
• Károly Sándor (1928–2014), Hungarian footballer
• Count Vincent Sándor de Szlavnicza, landowner, Hungarian aristocrat who commissioned the building of Sándor Palace, Budapest, building started around 1803
• Count Móric Sándor de Szlavnicza (1805–1878), landowner, once owner of the Sándor Palace in Budapest.

Fictional characters

• See Sandor (disambiguation)#Fictional characters
• Sandor, one of five of Sophie Fosters abundance of bodyguards from Shannon Messenger's Keeper series