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The Sandman
Sandman
The Sandman is a figure in folklore who brings good sleep and dreams.Sandman may also refer to:-People:*Mark Sandman, singer and co-founder of the band Morphine*Charles W...

is a figure in folklore who brings good sleep and dreams.

Sandman may also refer to:

People

  • Mark Sandman
    Mark Sandman
    Mark Sandman was an American singer, songwriter, musical instrument inventor and multi-instrumentalist.An indie rock icon and longtime fixture on the Boston/Cambridge music scene, Sandman was best known as the lead singer and slide bass player of the band Morphine...

    , singer and co-founder of the band Morphine
  • Charles W. Sandman, Jr.
    Charles W. Sandman, Jr.
    Charles William Sandman, Jr. was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives and was the party's candidate for Governor of New Jersey in 1973.-Biography:Sandman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

    , Republican Congressman for New Jersey's 2nd district (1967–1975) and Republican candidate for Governor of New Jersey (1973)
  • Steve Abbott (comedian) or The Sandman, Australian comedian
  • The Sandman (wrestler), Jim Fullington, professional wrestler
  • Howard Sims or Sandman, vaudeville tap dancer
  • Homeboy Sandman
    Homeboy Sandman
    -Personal:Homeboy Sandman grew up in New York City and attended boarding school at New Hampshire’s Holderness School . He received an undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and subsequently enrolled in law school at Hofstra University...

    , an American rapper
  • Mariano Rivera
    Mariano Rivera
    Mariano Rivera is a Panamanian right-handed baseball pitcher who has played 17 years in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees. Nicknamed "Mo", Rivera has served as a relief pitcher for most of his career, and since 1997, he has been the Yankees' closer...

    , relief pitcher for the New York Yankees
    New York Yankees
    The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the The Bronx, New York. They compete in Major League Baseball in the American League's East Division...

    .

Fictional

  • Sandman (Marvel Comics)
    Sandman (Marvel Comics)
    Sandman is a fictional character who appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. A shapeshifter endowed through an accident with the ability to turn himself into sand, he eventually reformed, and became an ally of Spider-Man...

    , a comic book super villain who can transform his body into sand
  • The Sandman (Vertigo), a comic book written by Neil Gaiman
    • Dream
      Dream (comics)
      Dream is the fictional protagonist of DC Comics' Vertigo comic book series The Sandman, written by Neil Gaiman. One of the seven Endless, inconceivably powerful beings older and greater than gods, Dream is both lord and personification of all dreams and stories, all that is not in reality...

       of The Endless
      Endless (comics)
      The Endless are a group of beings who embody powerful forces or aspects of the universe in the DC comic book series The Sandman, by Neil Gaiman. They have existed since the dawn of time and are thought to be among the most powerful beings in the universe...

      , the main character of Gaiman's book, sometimes referred as The Sandman
  • Sandman (DC Comics)
    Sandman (DC Comics)
    Sandman is the name of seven fictional characters, superheroes appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. All are connected in one way or the other, though there are three largely dissimilar concepts, with two or three persons having served in each role various times...

    , the name of many superhero characters published by DC Comics
    • Sandman (Wesley Dodds)
      Sandman (Wesley Dodds)
      Sandman , is a fictional superhero appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. The first of several DC characters to bear the name, he was created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Bert Christman....

      , a comic book superhero first appearing in the 1930s
    • Sandman (Sandy Hawkins), former sidekick of Wesley Dodds and current Sandman
      Sandman (DC Comics)
      Sandman is the name of seven fictional characters, superheroes appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. All are connected in one way or the other, though there are three largely dissimilar concepts, with two or three persons having served in each role various times...

  • Mr. Sandman (Punch-Out!!)
    Mr. Sandman (Punch-Out!!)
    is a fictional character in the Punch-Out!! video game series. He is an African American boxer hailing from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. He was first created by Shigeru Miyamoto in the Punch-Out!! game for the arcades, and then by Makoto Wada in the Nintendo Entertainment System...

    , a character in the video game Punch-Out!!
  • Sandman, a profession in Logan's Run
    Logan's Run
    Logan's Run is a novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. Published in 1967, it depicts a dystopic ageist future society in which both population and the consumption of resources are maintained in equilibrium by requiring the death of everyone reaching a particular age...

  • Sandman, antagonist and beachcomber in the psychological thriller "Sandman" by Ian Kingsley
  • The Sandman, a lead character in Sleepstalker
    Sleepstalker
    Sleepstalker is a 1995 horror film written by Al Septien and Turi Meyer.-Plot:After seventeen years of slaughtering all but one member of a family, "The Sandman" is pending execution. Before his execution the jailers allow a minister to visit him. The minister is a voodoo priest and an ally of the...

  • Sandman, a character in The Santa Clause 2
    The Santa Clause 2
    The Santa Clause 2 is a 2002 American comedy film and the sequel to the 1994 film, The Santa Clause. All the principal actors from the first film reprise their roles, except for Peter Boyle, who returns portraying a different minor character...

  • Sandman, a character on Bubba the Love Sponge
    Bubba the Love Sponge
    Todd Alan Clem is an American radio personality better known by his Legal name Bubba the Love Sponge Clem. He is the host of The Bubba the Love Sponge Show on various Cox Radio and Beasley Broadcast Group stations, formerly on Sirius XM Howard 101, as well as on RadioIO.-Early career and the...

    's radio show
  • Sandman, a character in The Real Ghostbusters
    The Real Ghostbusters
    The Real Ghostbusters is an American animated television series based on the 1984 film Ghostbusters. The series ran from 1986 to 1991, and was produced by Columbia Pictures Television, DiC Enterprises, and Coca-Cola Telecommunications. "The Real" was added to the title after a dispute with...

    episode "Sandman, Dream Me A Dream"
  • Sandmen, parasites in Dark•Matter
    Dark•Matter
    1Dark•Matter is a science fiction/conspiracy theory campaign setting that was originally published in 1999 by Wizards of the Coast as the second campaign setting for the Alternity role-playing game. It was written by Wolfgang Baur and Monte Cook...

    for the roleplaying game Alternity
  • The Sandman, a drug dealer in Scarface: The World Is Yours
    Scarface: The World is Yours
    Scarface: The World Is Yours is a video game developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Vivendi Universal Games. The game is based on and is a quasi-sequel to the 1983 motion picture Scarface starring Al Pacino reprising his role as Tony Montana, with André Sogliuzzo providing Montana's...

  • Christian "The Sandman" Naylor, a villain in Death Warrant
    Death Warrant
    Death Warrant is a 1990 action movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. The film was written by David S. Goyer while a student at USC, and was Goyer's first screenplay to be sold and produced commercially.-Plot summary:...

  • Klein Sandman, the leader of the protagonists from Gravion
    Gravion
    is an anime television series produced by Gonzo. It aired in Japan from October 7, 2002 to December 16, 2002 and ran for 13 episodes. In 2004, was released and aired from January 8 to March 25 in Japan, running for twelve additional episodes, answering the questions generated from the first...


Print

  • Sandman (magazine)
    Sandman (magazine)
    Sandman was a free music magazine launched in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, in September 2002. Later versions were created, specifically covering Leeds, Kingston upon Hull, York, Nottingham and Manchester before all five editions were amalgamated into one compendium edition which also covered...

    , a music magazine
  • The Sandman (book)
    The Sandman (book)
    The Sandman is a children's book written by Ralph Fletcher and illustrated by Richard Cowdrey. It was first published in 2008 by Henry Holt and Company.-Plot summary:...

    , a children's book by Ralph Fletcher
  • The Sandman (novel)
    The Sandman (novel)
    The Sandman is the first novel by English writer Miles Gibson, originally published by Heinemann in 1984 and subsequently translated into several languages. A black comedy recording the life and times of a good-natured serial killer who murders for the fun of it...

    , a novel by Miles Gibson
  • The Sandman: Endless Nights, a graphic novel by Neil Gaiman
  • "Der Sandmann
    Der Sandmann
    The Sandman is a short story written in German by E.T.A. Hoffmann. It was the first in an 1817 book of stories titled Die Nachtstücke .-Plot summary:...

    ", a short story by E.T.A. Hoffmann

Film and television

  • Sandmännchen
    Sandmännchen
    Unser Sandmännchen, Das Sandmännchen, Abendgruß, Sandmann, Sandmännchen is a German children's bedtime television programme using stop motion animation...

    , two 1958 German children's television shows
    • Sandmann - Historien om en sosialistisk supermann
      Sandmann - Historien om en sosialistisk supermann
      Sandmann - Historien om en sosialistisk supermann is a Norwegian 52 minute long documentary by Jannicke Systad Jacobsen from 2005. The documentary looks back on the rise and fall of the East-German socialism through the tales of Sandmann of Sandmännchen.- External links :*...

      , a 2005 Norwegian documentary about Sandmännchen by Jannicke Systad Jacobsen
  • The Sandman (1991 film)
    The Sandman (1991 film)
    The Sandman is a 1991 stop-motion animation film, animated and directed by Paul Berry and nominated for an “Oscar” for Best Animated Short Film in 1992. The storyline is inspired by the E.T.A...

    , a short horror stop-motion animation film
  • The Sandman (2000 film), a 2000 short film by the Brothers Quay
  • Sandman (1993 film), an indie horror movie directed by Eric Woster and co-written by Frank Rhodes
  • The Sandman (Doctor Who audio)
    The Sandman (Doctor Who audio)
    The Sandman is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.-Plot:...

     (2002), a 2002 audio drama
  • S&Man
    S&Man
    S&Man is a 2006 pseudo-documentary film that examines the underground subculture of horror films. It combines real interviews with indie horror film makers and a scripted plot that does not immediately come into focus until the second half of the film...

    or Sandman, a 2006 American pseudo-documentary film on horror films

Music

  • Sandman (album)
    Sandman (album)
    Sandman is the twelfth album by Harry Nilsson.-Track listing:All music and lyrics by Harry Nilsson, except where noted.#"I'll Take a Tango" – 2:58#"Something True" – 2:54...

    , a 1976 album by Harry Nilsson
  • "Mr. Sandman
    Mr. Sandman
    "Mr. Sandman" is a popular song written by Pat Ballard which was published in 1954 and first recorded in that year by The Chordettes. The song's lyrics convey a request to "Mr...

    ", a song by the Chordettes and others
  • "Mr. Sandman", a song on the album Tical
    Tical (album)
    Tical is the debut solo album of American rapper, and Wu-Tang Clan member Method Man, released November 15, 1994, on Def Jam Records. It was the first Wu-Tang solo album released after the group's debut, Enter the Wu-Tang ...

     by Method Man
  • "Sandmann" (song)
  • "Sandman", a song by America (band)
    America (band)
    America is an English-American folk rock band that originally included members Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell and Dan Peek. The three members were barely out of their teens when they became a musical sensation during 1972, scoring #1 hits and winning a Grammy for best new musical artist...

  • "Sandman", a song by Marvin Gaye
    Marvin Gaye
    Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. , better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye, was an American singer-songwriter and musician with a three-octave vocal range....

  • "The Sandmen", a Danish rock band best known from the film Nattevagten
    Nattevagten
    Nightwatch is a 1994 Danish horror thriller film directed and written by Danish director Ole Bornedal. It is a thriller about a law student who works in a morgue as a night-watchman, and becomes implicated in a series of murders of prostitutes.Ole Bornedal also directed the Hollywood remake...

  • "Enter Sandman
    Enter Sandman
    "Enter Sandman" is a 1991 song by the American heavy metal band Metallica. It was released as the first single from their eponymous fifth album, Metallica. The music was written by Kirk Hammett, James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich...

    ", a song by Metallica
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