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 |
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) 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 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
- 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