Sonny

This article is about the name. For American restaurant chain, see Sonny's Real Pit Bar-B-Q. For the 2002 film, see Sonny (film).

Sonny is a common nickname and occasional given name which may refer to:

People

Charles Sonny Ates (1935-2010), retired American racecar driver
Erwin Sonny Bishop (born 1939), American college and professional football player
Shin'ichi Sonny Chiba (born 1939), Japanese martial artist and actor
Sonny Gray (born 1989), Major League Baseball pitcher
Sidney Hertzberg (1922-2005), American National Basketball League point guard
Ernest Sonny Hutchins (1929-2005), stock car driver
Christian Sonny Jurgensen (born 1934), American Hall-of-Fame National Football League quarterback
Charles Sonny Liston (died 1970), heavyweight world champion boxer
Wilfred Sonny Siebert (born 1937), former Major League Baseball pitcher
Jan Sonny Silooy (born 1963), Dutch former footballer
Anderson da Silva (born 1970), known as Sonny Anderson, Brazilian retired footballer
Sonny Bill Williams (born 1985), New Zealand former professional rugby league and rugby union player

Albert "Sonny" Cunha (1879-1933), Hawaiian composer
Sonny Black, English singer/songwriter born William Boazman
Salvatore Sonny Bono (1935-1988), American singer, record producer and politician
Edwin Sonny Chillingworth (1932-1994), slack-key guitar player from Hawaii
Sonny Emory (born 1962), freelance touring and studio drummer
Sonny James (born 1929), stage name of American country music singer James Hugh Loden
Sonny Kay, founder of the record label Gold Standard Laboratories
Sonny King (singer) (1922-2006), American lounge singer born Luigi Antonio Schiavone
Sonny Landreth, American blues guitar player
Sonny Moore, better known as Skrillex, American songwriter and electronic music producer
Clyde Sonny Sandoval (born 1951), lead singer of rock band P.O.D.
Sonny Terry (1911-1986), blind American blues musician born Saunders Terrell
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

Ralph Sonny Barger (born 1938), founding member of the original Oakland, California, chapter of the Hells Angels motorcycle club
Sonny Flood (born 1989), English actor who plays Josh Ashworth on Hollyoaks
John Franzese, Sr. (born 1917), underboss of the Colombo crime family
George Sonny Perdue (born 1946), governor of the U.S. state of Georgia
Harold G. White (NASA), mechanical engineer, aerospace engineer, and applied physicist

Sonny, fictional character in the feature film I, Robot
Dominick "Sonny" Carisi, Jr., fictional NYPD detective on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Sonny Corinthos, fictional character on the soap opera General Hospital
Sonny Corleone, fictional character in the feature film The Godfather
James "Sonny" Crockett, fictional undercover police detective in the action drama television series Miami Vice
Sonny Forelli, fictional character in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Sonny Kiriakis, fictional character on the soap opera Days of our Lives
Sonny Munroe, fictional character in Disney Channel Original Series Sonny with a Chance
Sonny Sumo, fictional supporting character of DC Comics' Forever People
Sonny Spoon, fictional police detective character in the TV series Sonny Spoon
Sonny Valentine, fictional character on Hollyoaks
Sonny the Cuckoo Bird, the mascot for Cocoa Puffs breakfast cereal