Sandler is a surname derived from Hebrew "Sandlar" (סנדלר) - "sandal

Sandal

Sandals are an open type of outdoor footwearSandal may also refer to:* Sandal Castle, site of the Battle of Wakefield in the Wars of the Roses* Sandal, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England* Sandal, Afghanistan* Šandal, village in Slovakia...

-maker", i.e. shoemaker - which passed over to Yiddish with the same meaning. Thus, persons having this name are likely to have had a shoemaker among their ancestors, though it might be many generations in the past. Holders of the name include:

• Adam Sandler
  Adam Sandler
  Adam Richard Sandler is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, musician, and film producer.After becoming a Saturday Night Live cast member, Sandler went on to star in several Hollywood feature films that grossed over $100 million at the box office...
  
   (born 1966), American
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
   actor and comedian
• Barry Sandler
  Barry Sandler
  Barry Sandler is an American screenwriter and film producer. His career has spanned several decades, with the 1980s being his most prolific. The openly gay Sandler is perhaps best known for writing the 1982 film Making Love, the first mainstream Hollywood film to deal seriously with issues of...
  
  , American screenwriter and film producer
• Ethan Sandler
  Ethan Sandler
  Ethan Sandler is an American actor known for his role of ADA Jeffrey Brandau on the television series Crossing Jordan.-Career:Sandler's screen credits include The Chocolate War, Flushed, and The Enigma with a Stigma...
  
   (born 1973), American actor
• Francis Sandler, American bishop of the Palmarian Catholic Church
• Gabe Sandler, American activist, writer and electronic musician
• Herb Sandler
  Herb Sandler
  Herbert Sandler is the former CO-CEO of Golden West Financial Corporation and World Savings Bank.-Career:In 1963, the Sandlers created Golden West Financial Corporation, a savings and loan holding company, to acquire Golden West Savings and Loan Association, the predecessor to World Savings Bank...
  
  , American banker
• Jackie Sandler (born 1974), American actress and wife of Adam Sandler
• Joseph Sandler
  Joseph Sandler
  Joseph Sandler is a Washington, D.C. attorney who served as in-house general counsel for the Democratic National Committee from 1993 to 1998 and continued in this role at his firm Sandler, Reiff & Young through 2009...
  
  , Washington, D.C. attorney
• Rickard Sandler
  Rickard Sandler
  Rickard Johannes Sandler was a Swedish Social Democratic politician. He served asMinister without Portfolio in the Swedish government from 10 March 1920 to 30 June 1920, Minister for Finance from 1 July 1920 to 27 October 1920, Minister without Portfolio from 13 October 1921 to 19 April 1923,...
  
   (1884–1964), Prime Minister of Sweden (1925–1926)
• Roger Sandler, US Major General
• Ron Sandler
  Ron Sandler
  -Early life:Sandler was born in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia in 1952 and has an undergraduate degree in engineering from Queens' College, Cambridge and an MBA from Stanford University.-Career in the financial sector:...
  
  , new boss of Northern Rock
  Northern Rock
  Northern Rock plc is a British bank, best known for becoming the first bank in 150 years to suffer a bank run after having had to approach the Bank of England for a loan facility, to replace money market funding, during the credit crisis in 2007.  Having failed to find a commercial buyer for...
  
  
• Tony Sandler
  Tony Sandler
  Tony Sandler, is a singer, entertainer and performer...
  
   (born 1933), Belgian singer, entertainer and performer

See also

• Lowenstein Sandler
  Lowenstein Sandler
  Lowenstein Sandler is an AmLaw 200 corporate law firm with offices in New York, Palo Alto and Roseland, NJ. In 2007, the firm was ranked 157th largest in the United States in terms of attorney headcount by the National Law Journal, and 84th in profit per attorney by the AmLaw 200 survey. Many...
  
  , corporate law firm
• Sandler Communications, Houston-based investor relations
  Investor relations
  Investor Relations is a strategic management responsibility that integrates finance, communication, marketing and securities law compliance to enable the most effective two-way communication between a company, the financial community, and other constituencies, which ultimately contributes to a...
  
   firm
• Sandler O'Neill and Partners
  Sandler O'Neill and Partners
  Sandler O’Neill + Partners, L.P., is a full-service investment banking firm and broker-dealer focused on the financial services sector.Founded in 1988 by Herman S. Sandler and Thomas F.O'Neill along with several other executives from Wall Street firms, the firm provides investment banking services...
  
  , New York City-based investment banking firm
• Sandler and Young
  Sandler and Young
  Sandler and Young were a popular singing team from the 1960s through the 1980s, composed of Belgian-born Tony Sandler and native New Yorker Ralph Young....
  
  , singing team from the 1960s to the '80s with Tony Sandler and Ralph Young