Sándor Explained

Sándor
Gender:	masculine
Feminine:	Alexandra, Szandra
Meaning:	"Defender, protector of man"
Language:	Hungarian
Language origin:	Greek
Nickname:	Sanyi
Variant Forms:	Alex
Cognate:	Alexander
Anglicisation:	Alexander
Name Day:	March 18

Sándor 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 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