Sandford (surname)

Sandford is an English language toponymic surname, deriving from numerous localities named for a sandy ford.

St Fort in Fife, originally Sandforde or Sandford, is a Scottish origin of the name.

Notable people with the surname include:

• Alexander Wallace Sandford Australian businessman and politician
• Ben Sandford (born 1979), New Zealand skeleton racer
• Chris Sandford (born 1939), English actor and writer on fly-fishing
• Christopher Sandford (1902–1983), Anglo-Irish private press owner, father of Jeremy
• Christopher Sandford (biographer) (born 1956), English journalist and biographer
• Daniel Fox Sandford (1831–1906), Bishop of Tasmania
• Daniel Sandford (journalist), Britiohs journalist
• Daniel Sandford (bishop of Edinburgh), (1766–1830), Bishop of Edinburgh
• Daniel Sandford (soldier), (1882–1972), British brigadier and advisor to Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
• Elliott Sandford (1840–1897), American jurist from Utah
• Francis Sandford, 1st Baron Sandford (1824–1893), British civil servant
• Frank Sandford (1862–1948), founder of "The Kingdom", a Christian cult
• Frankie Sandford (born 1989), British singer: S Club 8, The Saturdays
• Gladys Sandford (1891–1971), New Zealand pilot
• James T. Sandford, American politician
• Sir James Wallace Sandford (1879–1958), Australian businessman and politician, son of Alexander
• Jeremy Sandford (1930–2003), English television writer, musician and visionary
• John de Sandford (died 1294), archbishop of Dublin
• John Sandford (novelist) (born 1944), American journalist and novelist
• Kenneth Sandford (1924–2004), English singer and actor
• Lettice Sandford (1902–1993), draftsman, wood-engraver, and watercolourist, mother of Jeremy
• Richard Sandford (died 1918), English recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Robert Sandford (explorer), English explorer of Carolina coast
• Teddy Sandford (1910–1995), English footballer
• Thomas Sandford (1762–1808), American soldier and politician
• Tiny Sandford (1894–1961), actor