Sandow Explained

Sandow is a German and Jewish (western Ashkenazic) family name. It is a variant of Sandau, which is a habitational name from a place near Stendal called Sandau. The Swedish barers of the name are probably of German origin. It may refer to:

Surname

• Alan Sandow (born 28 February 1952), Australian drummer member of rock band Sherbet
• Billy Sandow (1884–1972), American professional wrestler and promoter
• Chris Sandow (born 1989) Australian professional rugby league player
• Christian Sandow (born 1959), German modern pentathlete
• Damien Sandow (born 1981), American professional wrestler
• Eugen Sandow (1867–1925), born Friedrich Wilhelm Müller, German bodybuilder
• Greg Sandow (born 1943), American music critic and composer
• P. K. Raja Sandow (1894–1943), born as P. K. Nagalingam, Indian actor in Tamil cinema

Given name or nickname

• Sandow Birk, American visual artist
• Sandow Nasution (born 1981), Indonesian weightlifter
• Dan "Sandow" O'Donovan (1890–1975), member of the Irish Republican Army
• Sandy Ruby (1941–2008), born Sandow Sacks Ruby, American mathematician and entrepreneur
• Sandow M. M. A. Chinnappa Thevar, Indian film producer

Other

• Sandow (film), an 1894 silent film featuring Eugen Sandow
• Sandow (apple), an apple cultivar
• Sandow's Magazine of Physical Culture, a bodybuilding magazine established by Eugen Sandow in 1898
• Mount Sandow, a nunatak near Mount Amundsen in Antarctica
• Sandow Lakes Ranch, a ranch in Texas, USA.
• Sandow Power Plant, a coal-fired power plant near Rockdale, Texas
• Sandow, Chiktan, a village in Jammu and Kashmir, India

See also

• Rockdale, Sandow and Southern Railroad
• Sandoz (disambiguation)