List of Famous people with last name Sand
George Sand
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, best known by her pen name George Sand, was a French novelist, memoirist, and journalist. One of the more popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, being more renowned than both Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac in England in the 1830s and 1840s, Sand is recognised as one of the most notable writers of the European Romantic era.
José Sand
José Gustavo Sand, nicknamed Pepe, is an Argentine professional footballer who plays for Argentinian club Lanús as a striker.
Lauritz Sand
Lauritz Sand was a Norwegian topographer, military officer in the Dutch army, estate owner in the Dutch East Indies, business man and resistance pioneer of World War II. He was called the hardest tortured person in Norway during the war, and came to be an important symbol of the resistance against the Nazi regime.
Nicholas Sand
Nicholas Sand was a cult figure known in the psychedelic community for his work as a clandestine chemist from 1966 to 1996 for the Brotherhood of Eternal Love. Sand was part of the League for Spiritual Discovery at the Millbrook estate in New York, has been credited as the "first underground chemist on record to have synthesized DMT" and is known for manufacturing large amounts of LSD.
Karl Ludwig Sand
Karl Ludwig Sand was a German university student and member of a liberal Burschenschaft. He was executed in 1820 for the murder of the conservative dramatist August von Kotzebue the previous year in Mannheim. As a result of his execution, Sand became a martyr in the eyes of many German nationalists seeking the creation of a united German national state.
Maurice Sand
Jean-François-Maurice-Arnauld Dudevant, known as Baron Dudevant but better known by the pseudonym Maurice Sand, was a French writer, artist and entomologist. He studied art under Eugène Delacroix and also experimented in various other subjects, including geology and biology.
Jon Ola Sand
Jon Ola Sand, is a Norwegian television executive. He had been the European Broadcasting Union's Executive Supervisor of the Eurovision Song Contest from 2011 to 2020.
Shlomo Sand
Shlomo Sand is an Israeli Emeritus Professor of History at Tel Aviv University.
Loui Sand
Loui Sand, formerly known as Louise Sand, is a former Swedish handball player. In January 2019, Sand announced his retirement from handball due to gender dysphoria. Sand's first sex reassignment operation was successfully completed on 30 January 2019.
Ebbe Sand
Ebbe Sand is a former professional footballer from Denmark who played as a striker for Brøndby IF in Denmark and FC Schalke 04 in Germany. He was the German Bundesliga top scorer in 2001, and won the DFB-Pokal in 2001 and 2002 with Schalke. On the international stage, he represented the Denmark national football team at the 1998 and 2002 FIFA World Cup, as well as the 2000 and 2004 European Championships. At the 1998 World Cup, he scored the fastest-ever World Cup goal by a substitute – 16 seconds after entering the match.