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• Sonny Anderson (born 1970), Brazilian retired footballer • Sonny Alvarado, Puerto Rican basketball player • Sonny Ates (1935–2010), American racecar driver • Sonny Bishop (born 1939), American football player • Sonny Chiba (1939–2021), Japanese martial artist and actor • Sonny Gray (born 1989), American baseball pitcher • Sonny Hertzberg (1922–2005), American basketball player • Sonny Holland (1938–2022), American football coach and player • Sonny Hutchins (1929–2005), stock car driver • Sonny Jurgensen (1934–2026), American Hall-of-Fame National Football League quarterback • Sonny Liles (1919–2005), American football player • Sonny Liston (c. 1930–1970), American heavyweight boxer • Sonny Milano (born 1996), American ice hockey player • Sonny M'Pokomandji (born 1948), Central African former basketball player • Sonny Parker (born 1955), American former basketball player • Sonny Siebert (born 1937), American former baseball pitcher • Sonny Silooy (born 1963), Dutch former footballer • Sonny Styles (born 2004), American football player • Sonny Weems (born 1986), American basketball player • Sonny Bill Williams (born 1985), New Zealand former rugby player == Jazz musicians ==

• Sonny Berman (1925–1947), American trumpeter • Sonny Burke (1914–1980), American big band leader • Sonny Clark (1931–1963), American pianist • Sonny Cohn (1925–2006), American trumpeter • Sonny Criss (1927–1977), American saxophonist • Sonny Dallas (1931–2007), American bassist • Sonny Fortune (1939–2018), American saxophonist and flautist • Sonny Greenwich (born 1936), Canadian guitarist • Sonny Greer (1895–1982), American drummer • Sonny Payne (1926–1979), American drummer • Sonny Red (1932–1981), American alto saxophonist • Sonny Rollins (born 1930), American saxophonist • Sonny Sharrock (1940–1994), American guitarist • Sonny Simmons (1933–2021), American saxophonist and English horn player • Sonny Stitt (1924–1982), American saxophonist == Other musicians ==

• Sonny Double 1, Welsh rapper • Sonny Black, English singer/songwriter born William Boazman • Sonny Bono (1935–1998), American singer, record producer and politician • Sonny Burgess (1929–2017), rockabilly singer and guitarist • Sonny Lim, Hawaiian musician and slack key guitar player. • Sonny Chillingworth (1932–1994), slack-key guitar player from Hawaii • Sonny Cunha (1879–1933), Hawaiian composer • Sonny Curtis (1937–2025), American country and pop singer-songwriter • Sonny Digital (born 1991), American record producer, rapper, and DJ • Sonny Emory (born 1962), freelance touring and studio drummer • Sonny James (1928–2016), stage name of American country music singer James Hugh Loden • Sonny Kay (born 1972), founder of the record label Gold Standard Laboratories • Sonny King (singer) (1922–2006), American lounge singer born Luigi Antonio Schiavone • Sonny Landreth (born 1951), American blues guitar player • Sonny Fredie Pedersen, Danish musician and actor • Sonny Sanders (1939–2016), American soul music singer-songwriter, arranger, and producer • Sonny Sandoval (born 1974), lead singer of rock band P.O.D. • Sonny Terry (1911–1986), blind American blues musician born Saunders Terrell • Sonny West (1937–2022), American rockabilly guitarist and songwriter • Sonny Boy Williamson I a.k.a. John Lee Williamson (1914–1948), blues singer and harmonica player • Sonny Boy Williamson II a.k.a. Aleck Ford "Rice" Miller (c.1912–1965), blues singer and harmonica player • Sonny John Moore a.k.a. Skrillex, DJ Producer == Other ==

• Sonny Vaccaro, American former sports marketing executive • Sonny Angara (born 1972), Filipino politician • Sonny Barger (1938–2022), founding member of the original Oakland, California, chapter of the Hells Angels motorcycle club • Feliciano "Sonny" Belmonte Jr. (born 1936), Filipino politician • Dominick Napolitano, also known as Sonny Black (1930–1981), capo in the Bonanno crime family • Al Indelicato, also known as Sonny Red (1931–1981), another capo in the Bonanno crime family, killed during the same gangland war, in which the two led opposite sides • Sonny Caldinez (1932–2022), Trinidadian actor • Sonny Flood (born 1989), English actor who plays Josh Ashworth on Hollyoaks • Sonny Grosso (1930–2020), police detective and movie producer from New York • Sonny Franzese (1917–2020), underboss of the Colombo crime family • Sonny Landham (1941–2017), American actor and stuntman • Sonny Mehta (born Ajai Singh Mehta; 1942–2019), Indian book editor • Sonny Montgomery (1920–2006), American politician • Sonny Perdue (born 1946), U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and former Governor of Georgia • Shridath Ramphal (1928–2024), commonly called "Sonny Ramphal" or "Sir Sonny", Guyanese politician and 2nd Commonwealth Secretary-General • Sonny Shroyer (born 1935), American actor • Sonny Venkatrathnam(1938-2019), South African human rights activist. • Sonny West (1938–2017), American actor and stunt performer • Harold G. White (born 1965), mechanical engineer, aerospace engineer, and applied physicist • Lee Sung Jin, also known as Sonny Lee (born 1981), American filmmaker == Fictional characters ==

• Sonny, a racer character in the Malaysian animated series Rimba Racer • Sonny the Cuckoo Bird, the mascot for Cocoa Puffs breakfast cereal • Sonny, a well tank locomotive from Thomas & Friends • Sonny, the protagonist of the flash video game Sonny • Sonny, a character in the 1994 American action thriller movie Raw Justice • Sonny Bonds, protagonist of the first three Police Quest games • Dominick "Sonny" Carisi, Jr., detective on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit • Michael Sonny Corinthos, in the soap opera General Hospital • Santino "Sonny" Corleone, in the film The Godfather, played by James Caan • James "Sonny" Crockett, an undercover police detective in the action drama television series Miami Vice • Sonny Forelli, in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City • Sonny Hayes, the main charachter in the film F1 • Jackson Sonny Kiriakis, on the soap opera Days of our Lives • Sonny Koufax, the main character in the film Big Daddy, played by Adam Standler • Sonny LoSpecchio, the main character in the film A Bronx Tale, played by Chazz Palminteri • Sonny Lumet, a character in the American television sitcom Bosom Buddies • Allison Sonny Munroe, in Disney Channel Original Series Sonny with a Chance • Sonny Spoon, a police detective character in the TV series Sonny Spoon • Sonny Sumo, a supporting character of DC Comics' Forever People • Simon Sonny Valentine, in the soap opera Hollyoaks • Sonny Weaver, Jr., main character of the 2014 film Draft Day, played by Kevin Costner • Sonny Wolff, the father of Nat and Alex Wolff in The Naked Brothers Band • Sonny Wortzik, main character of Dog Day Afternoon, played by Al Pacino • Sonny, a character in the 2021 Canadian-American movie Mister Sister • Sonny, a character in 1986 the American fantasy drama film The Boy Who Could Fly • Sonny, a robot in the film I, Robot == See also ==