List of Famous people with last name Sands
Bobby Sands
Robert Gerard Sands was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland. Sands helped to plan the 1976 bombing of the Balmoral Furniture Company in Dunmurry, which was followed by a gun battle with the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Sands was arrested while trying to escape and he was sentenced to 14 years for firearms possession.
Carla Sands
Carla Sands is an American socialite, former actress, and chiropractor who served as the United States Ambassador to Denmark from 2017 to 2021. Sands was previously an economic advisor to Trump. Prior to her nomination, she donated nearly a quarter-million dollars to, and organized high-dollar fundraisers for, Trump's presidential campaign. She also gave $100,000 to Trump's inaugural committee.
Jerry Sands
Gerald Robert Sands is an American professional baseball outfielder and first baseman for the Hanshin Tigers of the Nippon Professional Baseball(NPB). He was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 25th round of the 2008 MLB Draft out of Catawba College and made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut with them in 2011. He has also played for the Tampa Bay Rays, Cleveland Indians, and Chicago White Sox and for the Kiwoom Heroes of the KBO League. Sands grew up in Smithfield, North Carolina and is a graduate of Smithfield-Selma High School.
Julian Sands
Julian Richard Morley Sands is an English actor known for his roles in films such as The Killing Fields, A Room with a View, Warlock, Arachnophobia, Boxing Helena and Vatel. On television, he is known for playing Vladimir Bierko in 24, Jor-El in Smallville, and as Yulish Rabitov in Banshee.
Matthew Sands
Matthew Linzee Sands was an American physicist and educator best known as a co-author of the Feynman Lectures on Physics. A graduate of Rice University, Sands served with the Naval Ordnance Laboratory and the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.
Stark Sands
Stark Bunker Sands is an American actor. He is known for his role as Tunny in the original Broadway cast of American Idiot, and originating the role of Charlie Price in Kinky Boots on Broadway. He is a two-time Tony Award nominee. He is also known for the roles of Lance Sussman in Die, Mommie, Die! and Lt. Nathaniel Fick in Generation Kill. He starred as Dash in FOX's series Minority Report.
Elizabeth Sands
Tommy Sands
Thomas Adrian Sands is an American pop music singer and actor. Working in show business as a child, Sands became an overnight sensation and instant teen idol when he appeared on Kraft Television Theater in January 1957 as "The Singin' Idol". The song from the show, "Teen-Age Crush", reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1 on Cashbox.
Dennis S. Sands
Dennis S. Sands is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on more than 240 films since 1979.