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14 unusual facts about Sanford


Jay Hebert

Hebert worked as the playing pro at Mayfair Country Club in Sanford, Florida in the 1950s.

Jeff Faine

Faine is a 1999 graduate of Seminole High School in Sanford, Florida.

La Jolla

Among the several research institutes near UCSD and in the nearby Torrey Pines Science Park are The Scripps Research Institute, the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (formerly called the La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation), La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology (LIAI) and the Salk Institute.

MyTravel Airways

MyTravel Aircraft Engineering Caribbean, part of MTAE had bases throughout the Caribbean in Cancún, Cozumel, Montego Bay, Newark, New Jersey and Sanford, Florida, as well as seasonal bases at various Spanish, Greek and Turkish airports as well as Jeddah for the Hajj operation.

NWA New England X Division Championship

It was originally won by Cameron Matthews after defeating Shawn Styles, Gina Marie and Psycho in a three-way match in Sanford, Maine on June 19, 2004.

Ocky Clark

Octavius ("Ocky") Rene Clark was born November 14, 1960 in Sanford, Florida.

Peter Kellman

He was elected president of Local 82, Shoe Division, of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, AFL-CIO in Sanford, Maine.

Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute

The Institute's partners and collaborators include the City of Orlando, Orange County, the State of Florida, the University of Central Florida College of Medicine, the Tavistock Group, Lake Nona, the University of Florida, the Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission, Florida's Blood Centers, Florida Hospital, Orlando Regional Healthcare, Orlando VA Medical Center, Nemours, Epcot Center, and the Orlando Magic.

Sanford-Covell Villa Marina

The Sanford-Covell Villa Marina in Newport, Rhode Island, United States, was completed in 1870 by architect William Ralph Emerson for Milton H. Sanford of Pimlico Race Course fame.

Sanford-Curtis-Thurber House

The house was purchased in 1931 by Althea Thurber, the first wife of author and humorist James Thurber (1894–1961), and it was used as a weekend or holiday home.

Sanford-Townsend Band

After reuniting in Los Angeles, Sanford and Townsend signed a publishing deal with Chappell Music and began writing songs, most notably "Peacemaker" for Loggins and Messina, which was co-written by the duo with Kenny Loggins.

Sanford, Michigan

Douglass Houghton, the state surveyor and geologist, supervised sinking the shaft of the well.

Sanford's Bowerbird

Some authorities considered the Sanford's Bowerbird as a subspecies of the Archbold's Bowerbird.

Sanford's Sea Eagle

The Sanford's Sea Eagle was discovered by and named after Dr Leonard C. Sanford, a trustee for the American Museum of Natural History.


2005 FCSL season

In the championship game, played for the first time at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, Zephyrhills defeated Sanford 2-1 to capture the franchise's first FCSL title.

Alex Cord

Ben Sanford is one of the original settlers of the Laramie area and is called a "Mountain Man."

Austin M. Knight

Born in Ware, Massachusetts to future American Civil War veteran Charles Sanford Knight and Cordelia Cutter Knight, Austin Melvin Knight was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy from Florida on June 30, 1869, graduating in 1873.

Craig Redmond

Craig Sanford Redmond (born September 22, 1965 in Dawson Creek, British Columbia) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played 191 games in the National Hockey League.

Die Without Hope

It was made in Audiohammer Studios in Sanford, Florida and was produced by Mark Lewis.

Drew Bundini Brown

Brown, who was born in Midway, Florida, and raised in nearby Sanford, Florida, dropped out of junior high school after the eighth grade.

For the Working Class Man

Journey's Jonathan Cain contributed, produced and performed on two tracks, "Working Class Man" (Which has since become Barnes' signature song as a solo artist after being featured in the Ron Howard film Gung Ho) and "American Heartbeat", with Steven Van Zandt of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band co-writing "Ride the Night Away" and Chas Sanford penning "I'd Die to be with You Tonight".

Fred Sanford

Fred G. Sanford, fictional character in the 1972 sitcom Sanford and Son

Jason Sanford

Sanford is a three-time winner of the Interzone Readers' Poll and his novella "Sublimation Angels" was a finalist for the 2009 Nebula Award for Best Novella.

Jay P. Sanford

Sanford served as councillor, secretary and then president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (1966 to 1979.) He also served as chairman of the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education, chairman of the American Board of Internal Medicine and chairman of the ABIM's Subspecialty Committee on Infectious Diseases.

Jenny Sanford

Sanford has expressed interest in becoming President of the College of Charleston upon the retirement of P. George Benson in 2014.

On December 11, 2009, she announced that she was filing for divorce, after it became known that Governor Sanford had flown to Argentina to have an affair with Maria Belen Chapur, a 43-year old divorced mother from Buenos Aires.

John C. Sanford

An advocate of intelligent design, in 2005 Sanford testified in the Kansas evolution hearings on behalf of intelligent design, during which he denied the principle of common descent and "humbly offered... that we were created by a special creation, by God."

John Yeackle

In 1950, Yeackle's family moved to Sanford, Florida, where they developed Seminole Fish Camp, on the Wekiva River.

Jonah Sanford

Sanford was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Silas Wright, Jr., and served from November 3, 1830, to March 3, 1831.

Juliana Harkavy

After high school, Juliana attended The Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where she majored in Theater in the Sanford Meisner studio.

Lillias Rumsey Sanford

Lillias Rumsey Sanford (1850-1940) was the founder of Rumsey Hall School, the second private nondenominational pre-preparatory school in the United States, originally located in Seneca Falls, New York.

Louis B. Goodall

He became president of the Sanford National Bank from its organization in 1896, and became chairman of the Maine commission to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Mo., in 1904.

Maine State Route 4

From South Berwick, Route 4 runs in a northeasterly direction through the town of North Berwick, bypassing the center of the city of Sanford to the east, and coming to an intersection with U.S. Route 202 in Alfred.

Metromedia Square

One of his other classic shows, Sanford and Son, remained taped at NBC Studios in Burbank; its 1980 revival, Sanford, was videotaped at Metromedia.

New Tribes Mission

New Tribes Mission (NTM) is an international, theologically evangelical Christian mission organization based in Sanford, Florida, United States.

Noah Beauchamp

His daughter-in-law's parents Sanford and Rhoda Ransdell testified for the defense but to no avail.

Pipe Layin' Dan

The album, and previous other recordings, were recorded in the years before LaWanda found mainstream success as Fred G. Sanford's (Redd Foxx) nemesis, "Aunt Esther", in the acclaimed sitcom, Sanford and Son, and featured a more raunchy and graphic LaWanda than fans of the sitcom were used to.

Poppy Montgomery

Since late 2011, Montgomery has been in a relationship with Shawn Sanford, director of lifestyle marketing for Microsoft, whom she met at an event in Puerto Rico.

Porterville, Utah

Porterville was first settled by Centerville residents Sanford and Nancy Warriner Porter in 1859.

Reuben Sanford

Reuben Sanford (December 3, 1780 Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut - May 19, 1855 Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio) was an American politician from New York.

Ryan Solle

Solle grew up in Broadway, North Carolina, played club soccer for the Fayetteville Force with whom he won three consecutive North Carolina state championships (1999, 2000 and 2001), and attended Lee County High School in Sanford, North Carolina, where he was selected as a 2003 Parade Magazine High School All American.

Sanford Airport

Orlando Sanford International Airport serving Sanford, Florida, United States (FAA/IATA: SFB)

Sanford Arms

Sanford Arms is an American sitcom that aired from September to October 1977 on NBC.

Sanford Wheeler

Midway through his career, he changed his first name by Deed poll to "Sanford".

Scheels Arena

It is part of the Sanford Health Athletic Park which consists of the arena, Family Wellness Center (a partnership between Sanford Health and the YMCA), Sanford POWER Athletic Center, and there are plans to add four additional ice sheets.

Sioux Falls Jazz and Blues Festival

JazzFest features a main stage, second stage for local talent, the Sanford Children's JazzQuest Area, a poetry tent, various food and beverage vendors and many craft and non-food booths.

Stephen Siegel

Throughout his career, he has arranged transactions for some of the US's most prominent corporate clients including J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, Amerada Hess Corp., Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., Swiss Reinsurance, MetLife, Cerberus Capital Management and Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP.

The Bowery House

The Bowery House is an historic hotel on the Bowery in the Nolita neighborhood of New York City established by Italian race car driver Alessandro Zampedri and American real estate entrepreneur Sanford Kunkel.

The Neurosciences Institute

It was bordered by TSRI to the west, the Sanford-Burnham Institute to the north, the University of California, San Diego to the south, and numerous biotechnology and pharmaceutical research companies to the east and in the immediate surrounding area.

The Stovall Sisters

They also toured with Redd Foxx and Demond Wilson of Sanford & Son and briefly performed as the Ikettes with Ike & Tina Turner, 1967.

Tyne Valley, Prince Edward Island

Some famous Islanders hailing from, or who have hailed from, the community include 'Dambuster' F/O Vincent Sanford MacCausland, former Premier Keith Milligan, former Dean of McGill Law, Percy Ellwood Corbett, Member of Parliament Joseph McGuire, Island visual artist Charlene Williams, historic shipbuilder James Yeo, and deceased folk artist Larry Gorman.

UPS Airlines Flight 6

The captain, 48-year old Doug Lampe of Louisville, Kentucky, and the first officer, 38-year old Matthew Bell from Sanford, Florida, died.

WPHX

WXEX-FM, a radio station (92.1 FM) licensed to Sanford, Maine, which held the call sign WPHX-FM from 1999 to 2011