Mandy (given name)
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Mandy is a given name, or a nickname for the female name Amanda or Miranda
. It is regularly given as an independent name in English-speaking countries since the 1960s, or a nickname for the male names Armand, Mandel
or Emmanuel.
It may refer to:
Miranda (given name)
Miranda is a feminine given name of Latin origin, meaning "worthy of admiration". There are several variants. It is also common as a surname. There is a related adjective, seldom used but found in the Oxford English Dictionary, which is "Mirandous", a synonym to miraculous.* Miranda from Spain*...
. It is regularly given as an independent name in English-speaking countries since the 1960s, or a nickname for the male names Armand, Mandel
Mandel
Mandel is the surname of:* Eli Mandel , Canadian writer* Emmanuil Mandel, Russian poet known by his pen name Naum Korzhavin* Ernest Mandel , Trotskyist theoretician and political activist...
or Emmanuel.
It may refer to:
People
- Mandy BrunoMandy BrunoMandy Bruno is an American Emmy-nominated actress.-Career:She has been playing the role of Marina Cooper on Guiding Light from May 2004 to September 2009 and received her first nomination for a Daytime Emmy Award in 2006 for Outstanding Younger Actress.Bruno has a BFA in Theater from Otterbein...
(born 1982), American actress - Mandy CapristoMandy CapristoMandy Grace Capristo is a German singer who rose to fame as one of the founding members of the pop group Monrose. She was the only blonde girl in the group and was also the "strong voice" of Monrose as she sang almost all of the high notes in their songs...
, German singer - Mandy ChiangMandy ChiangMandy Nga-man Chiang is a Hong Kong singer signed to the Emperor Entertainment Group, Music Icon Rocords. Her music career first began in 2002 when she was partnered with Yumiko Cheng and Maggie Lau to form the female group 3T. The group released one EP and separated shortly after...
(born 1982), Hong Kong singer - Mandy ChoMandy ChoMandy Cho Man-Lei is a Hong Kong beauty contestant and television personality.Cho studied in San Francisco, United States. She came back from her studies in 2003 and competed in the 2003 Miss Hong Kong Pageant. A favorite at the start of the competition, she made it into the semifinals and won the...
, Hong Kong actress and pageant winner - Mandy GonzalezMandy GonzalezMandy Gonzalez is an American actress and singer, who most recently finished a 10-month run as Elphaba in the Broadway musical Wicked.-Early life and education:...
, American stage actress and singer - Mandy HabermanMandy HabermanMandy Nicola Haberman is an English inventor and entrepreneur. She is a visiting Fellow at Bournemouth University, from where she has an honorary doctorate.-Inventions:...
, British designer and inventor - Mandy Hagar, New Zealand children's book author
- Mandy LeachMandy LeachMandy Leach is a retired female freestyle swimmer from Zimbabwe. She represented her native African country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. There she ended up in 13th place in the overall-rankings, clocking 2:00.60 in the semi-finals.-References:*...
(born 1979), Zimbabwean freestyle swimmer
- Peter MandelsonPeter MandelsonPeter Benjamin Mandelson, Baron Mandelson, PC is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Hartlepool from 1992 to 2004, served in a number of Cabinet positions under both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and was a European Commissioner...
, European Trade Commissioner and Ex-Labour Cabinet Minister, sometimes called "Mandy" - Mandy MillerMandy MillerMandy Miller is an English child actor who made a number of films in the 1950s and is probably best remembered for her recording of the song "Nellie the Elephant".-Early life:...
(born 1944), British actress and child star of the film MandyMandy (film)Mandy was a 1952 Ealing Studios film, based on the book The Day Is Ours by Hilda Lewis, with screenplay by Nigel Balchin and Jack Whittingham, and direction by Alexander Mackendrick and Fred Sears. Another title for the film was Crash of Silence...
(1952) - Mandy MooreMandy MooreAmanda Leigh "Mandy" Moore is an American singer-songwriter, actress and fashion designer. Moore became famous as a teenager in the late 1990s, after the release of her teen pop albums So Real, I Wanna Be with You, and Mandy Moore. In 2007, she took an adult pop-folk direction with the release of...
(born 1984), American singer and actress - Mandy PatinkinMandy PatinkinMandel Bruce "Mandy" Patinkin is an award-winning American actor of stage and screen and a tenor vocalist. He is a noted interpreter of the musical works of Stephen Sondheim, and is best-known for his work in musical theatre, originating iconic roles such as Georges Seurat in Sunday in the Park...
(born 1952), American actor and singer - Mandy Rice-DaviesMandy Rice-DaviesMandy Rice-Davies , is a Welsh former model and showgirl best known for her role in the Profumo affair and her association with Christine Keeler, which discredited the Conservative government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1963.-Early life:She was born Marilyn Rice-Davies in...
(born 1944), famous for her role in the Profumo affair, which discredited the Conservative government of British Prime-Minister Harold Macmillan in 1963 - Mandy SellarsMandy SellarsMandy Sellars is a woman diagnosed as suffering from what is believed by some doctors to be Proteus syndrome, a very rare condition thought to afflict only 120 people worldwide.-Biography:...
(born 1975), British woman possibly afflicted by Proteus syndromeProteus syndromeProteus syndrome, also known as Wiedemann's syndrome , is a congenital disorder that causes skin overgrowth and atypical bone development, often accompanied by tumors over half the body.... - Mandy SmithMandy SmithMandy Smith is an English dance-pop singer, former model and aspiring counsellor.-Early life:In 1983, at age 13 she started dating 47-year-old The Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman, with the consent of her mother...
(born 1970), British singer, model and actress known professionally as Mandy.
Fiction
- Mandy, a main character from The Grim Adventures of Billy & MandyThe Grim Adventures of Billy & MandyThe Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy often shortened as Billy and Mandy is an American animated television series that aired on Cartoon Network. It is also the spin-off of Grim & Evil. Having originally aired as part of Grim & Evil The show began in 2001, And went on to become one of Cartoon...
- Mandy, a minor character from 6teen6teen6teen is a Canadian animated sitcom, which premiered in Canada in 2004 on Teletoon. In the USA, 6teen first premiered on Nickelodeon on December 18, 2005 and was removed from the schedule on May 13, 2006 before being removed completely in 2007 before the series' run could be completed. 6teen was...
- Mandy HamptonMandy HamptonDr. Madeline 'Mandy' Hampton is a fictional character played by Moira Kelly on the American serial drama television series The West Wing. She was White House media consultant during the first season of the show, and the former girlfriend of Deputy White House Chief of Staff Josh Lyman, with whom...
, a character on the television series The West Wing - Mandy Hope, a character in the children's book series Animal ArkAnimal ArkAnimal Ark is a children's book series written by a collection of authors under the direction of Ben M. Baglio using the pseudonym Lucy Daniels starting in 1994 . They have now been published in the USA and many other countries...
- Mandy Hutchinson, a character in the British soap opera HollyoaksHollyoaksHollyoaks is a long-running British television soap opera, first broadcast on Channel 4 on 23 October 1995. It was originally devised by Phil Redmond, who has also devised shows including Brookside and Grange Hill...
, played by Sarah Jayne DunnSarah Jayne DunnSarah Jayne Dunn is an English actress best known for playing Mandy Richardson in Hollyoaks.-Biography:Dunn was born in Leigh, Lancashire and educated at Lowton High School, excelling in drama and performing arts, and a part time career as a model... - Mandy Luxe, a cartoon character from the animated series Totally Spies!
- Mandy Hunter, A telemarketing expert for CPK-LLC in Wichita, Kansas CPK-LLC