Sonny

Sonny is a common given name, and may refer to:

People

Athletes

• Sonny Ates, retired American racecar driver
• Sonny Bishop, American college and professional football player
• Sonny Chiba, Japanese martial artist and actor
• Sonny Hertzberg, American NBA basketball point guard, original NY Knickerbocker
• Sonny Hutchins, stock car driver
• Sonny Jurgensen, famed American football quarterback
• Sonny Liston, heavyweight world champion boxer
• Sonny Siebert, former Major League Baseball pitcher
• Sonny Silooy, Dutch football (soccer) player
• Sonny Anderson, Brazilian Football player who played for Barcelona and Lyon
• Sonny Bill Williams, New Zealand former professional rugby league and rugby union player

Jazz musicians

• Sonny Berman, American trumpeter
• Sonny Burke, American big band leader
• Sonny Clark, American pianist
• Sonny Cohn, American trumpeter
• Sonny Criss, American saxophonist
• Sonny Dallas, American bassist
• Sonny Fortune, American saxophonist and flautist
• Sonny Greenwich, Canadian guitarist
• Sonny Greer, American drummer
• Sonny Payne, American drummer
• Sonny Red, American alto saxophonist
• Sonny Rollins, American saxophonist
• Sonny Sharrock, American guitarist
• Sonny Simmons, American saxophonist and English horn player
• Sonny Stitt, an American saxophonist

Other musicians

• Albert "Sonny" Cunha, a Hawaiian composer
• Sonny Black, an English singer/songwriter
• Sonny Bono, an American record producer and singer
• Sonny Boy Williamson I, a bluesharmonica player
• Sonny Boy Williamson II, a blues singer en harmonica player
• Sonny Chillingworth, a slack-key guitar player from Hawaii
• Sonny Emory, a freelance touring and studio drummer
• Sonny James, an American country music singer
• Sonny Kay, founder of the record label Gold Standard Laboratories
• Sonny King (singer), an American lounge singer
• Sonny Landreth, an American blues guitar player
• Sonny Moore, American songwriter
• Sonny Sandoval, lead singer of rock band P.O.D.
• Sonny Terry, US-American blues musician

Other people

• Sonni Ali, the first great king of the Songhai Empire
• Sonny Barger, a founding member of the original Oakland, California, USA chapter of Hells Angels
• Sonny Flood, an English actor who plays Josh Ashworth on Hollyoaks
• John "Sonny" Franzese, underboss of the Colombo crime family
• Dominic "Sonny Black" Napolitano, a capo in the Bonanno crime family
• Sonny Perdue, a governor of the U.S. state of Georgia

Fictional characters

• Sonny, a fictional character in the feature film I, Robot
• Sonny Corinthos, a fictional character on the soap opera General Hospital
• James "Sonny" Crockett, a fictional undercover police detective in the action drama television series Miami Vice
• Sonny Corleone, a fictional character in the feature film The Godfather
• Sonny Forelli, a fictional character in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
• Sonny Sumo, a fictional supporting character of DC Comics' Forever People
• Sonny Valentine, a fictional character on Hollyoaks
• Sonny Munroe, a fictional character in Disney Channel Original Series Sonny With a Chance
• Sonny, from the game of Armor Games Sonny.

Other

• Sonny's Real Pit Bar-B-Q, a barbecue restaurant chain in the southeastern United States
• Sonny the Cuckoo Bird, the mascot for Cocoa Puffs
• Sonny (film) a 2002 film starring James Franco, directed by Nicolas Cage
• Sonny With a Chance, a Disney Channel Original Series

See also

• Sunny (disambiguation)