Sonny
Sonny is a common nickname and occasional given name.
Notable people with the name include: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