Sonny

Athletes

• Son Heung-min, South Korean footballer, plays for English Premier League club Tottenham
• Charles Sonny Ates, retired American racecar driver
• Erwin Sonny Bishop, American college and professional football player
• Shin'ichi Sonny Chiba, Japanese martial artist and actor
• Sonny Gray, Major League Baseball pitcher
• Sidney "Sonny" Hertzberg, American National Basketball League point guard
• Ernest Sonny Hutchins, stock car driver
• Christian Sonny Jurgensen, American Hall-of-Fame National Football League quarterback
• Sonny Liles, American football player
• Charles Sonny Liston, heavyweight world champion boxer
• Wilfred Sonny Siebert, former Major League Baseball pitcher
• Jan Sonny Silooy, Dutch former footballer
• Anderson da Silva, known as Sonny Anderson, Brazilian retired footballer
• Sonny Weems, American basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli Premier League and the Euroleague
• Sonny Bill Williams, New Zealand former professional rugby league and rugby union player

  Jazz musicians

• Saul Sonny Berman, American trumpeter
• Joseph Sonny Burke, American big band leader
• Conrad Sonny Clark, American pianist
• George Sonny Cohn, American trumpeter
• William Sonny Criss, American saxophonist
• Francis Sonny Dallas, American bassist
• Sonny Fortune, American saxophonist and flautist
• Herbert Sonny Greenwich, Canadian guitarist
• Sonny Greer, American drummer
• Percival Sonny Payne, American drummer
• Sonny Red, American alto saxophonist
• Walter Theodore Sonny Rollins, American saxophonist
• Warren Sonny Sharrock, American guitarist
• Huey Sonny Simmons, American saxophonist and English horn player
• Sonny Stitt, American saxophonist born Edward Boatner, Jr.

  Other musicians

• Sonny Double 1, Welsh rapper
• Sonny Black, English singer/songwriter born William Boazman
• Salvatore Sonny Bono, American singer, record producer and politician
• Albert Sonny Burgess, rockabilly singer and guitarist
• Edwin Sonny Chillingworth, slack-key guitar player from Hawaii
• Albert "Sonny" Cunha, Hawaiian composer
• Sonny Curtis, country and pop singer-songwriter
• Sonny Emory, freelance touring and studio drummer
• Sonny James, stage name of American country music singer James Hugh Loden
• Sonny Kay, founder of the record label Gold Standard Laboratories
• Sonny King , American lounge singer born Luigi Antonio Schiavone
• Clyde Sonny Landreth, American blues guitar player
• Sonny Moore, better known as Skrillex, American songwriter and electronic music producer
• Sonny Fredie Pedersen, Danish musician and actor
• Sonny Sanders, American soul music singer-songwriter, arranger, and producer
• Paul Sonny Sandoval, lead singer of rock band P.O.D.
• Sonny Terry, blind American blues musician born Saunders Terrell
• Sonny Boy Williamson I a.k.a. John Lee Williamson, blues singer and harmonica player
• Sonny Boy Williamson II a.k.a. Aleck Ford "Rice" Miller, blues singer and harmonica player

  Other

• Sonny Angara, Filipino politician
• Ralph Sonny Barger, founding member of the original Oakland, California, chapter of the Hells Angels motorcycle club
• Feliciano "Sonny" Belmonte Jr., Filipino politician
• Dominick Napolitano, also known as Sonny Black, Capo in the Bonnano crime family
• Sonny Caldinez, Trinidadian actor
• Sonny Flood, English actor who plays Josh Ashworth on Hollyoaks
• Sonny Grosso, police detective and movie producer from New York
• John Franzese, Sr., underboss of the Colombo crime family
• William Sonny Landham, American actor and stuntman
• Sonny Mehta, Indian book editor
• Gillespie V. Montgomery, American politician
• George Sonny Perdue, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and former Governor of Georgia
• Otis Sonny Shroyer, American actor
• Harold G. White, mechanical engineer, aerospace engineer, and applied physicist

  Fictional characters

• Dominick "Sonny" Carisi, Jr., detective on
• Sonny Corinthos, in the soap opera General Hospital
• Sonny Corleone, in the film The Godfather
• 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 Kiriakis, on the soap opera Days of our Lives
• Sonny LoSpecchio, a main character in the film A Bronx Tale, played by Chazz Palminteri
• 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
• 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, a robot in the film I, Robot
• 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