Top Celebrity Names Starting With Sonny

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   Sonny Bono

   1935 - 1998 Male
   

   Politician

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   Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bono was an American recording artist, record producer, actor, and politician whose career spanned over three decades.

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   Sonny Chiba

   Age 73 Male
   

   Actor, Singer

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   (born 23 January 1939), also known as Sonny Chiba, is a Japanese actor, singer, film producer, film director and martial artist. Chiba was one of the first actors to achieve stardom through his skills in martial arts, initially in Japan and later before an international audience.… read more

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   Sonny Rollins

   Age 81 Male
   

   Saxophonist, Tenor Saxophonist, Jazz Musician

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   Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins is an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. A number of his compositions, including "St. Thomas", "Oleo", "Doxy", and "Airegin", have become jazz standards.… read more

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   Sonny James

   Age 83 Male
   

   Songwriter, Singer, Musician

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   James Loden, known professionally as Sonny James, is an American country music singer and songwriter best known for his 1957 hit, "Young Love". Dubbed the Southern Gentleman, James had 72 country and pop chart hits from 1953 to 1983, including a five-year streak of 16 straight among his 23 No. 1 hits. Twenty-one of his albums reached the country top ten from 1964 to 1976. He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.… read more

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   Sonny Perdue

   1946 - 2011 Male
   

   Governor, Veterinarian, Politician

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   George Ervin "Sonny" Perdue III,-was the 81st Governor of Georgia. Upon his inauguration in January 2003, he became the first Republican governor of Georgia since Benjamin F. Conley served during Reconstruction in the 1870s.… read more

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   Sonny Lubick

   Age 75 Male
   

   Football Coach, Sports Person, Teacher

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   Louis "Sonny" Lubick is a former head football coach at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. The 15th head coach in school history, Lubick won over 100 games at CSU, won or shared six Western Athletic Conference or Mountain West Conference titles, guided the program to nine bowl games in his previous 13 years, and was named National Coach of the Year by Sports Illustrated in 1994.… read more

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   Sonny Liston

   1932 - 1970 Male
   

   Heavyweight, Champion, Wrestler

   
   

   Charles L. "Sonny" Liston was an American professional boxer known for his toughness, punching power and intimidating appearance, who became World Heavyweight Champion in 1962 by knocking out Floyd Patterson in the first round. Liston failed to live up to his fearsome reputation in an unsuccessful defense of the title against Muhammad Ali; underworld connections and an early death—along with his unrecorded date of birth—added to the enigma.… read more

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   Sonny Bill Williams

   Age 26 Male
   

   New Zealand Musician

   
   

   Sonny William 'Sonny Bill' Williams is a New Zealand rugby union player, heavyweight boxer and former rugby league player. He is only the second person to represent New Zealand in rugby union after first playing for the country in rugby league. In rugby union he usually plays as a centre. He is particularly known in rugby league and rugby union for his ability to offload the ball in the tackle and, in rugby league, for his shoulder charges.… read more

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   Sonny Stitt

   1924 - 1982 Male
   

   Saxophonist, Musician

   
   

   Edward "Sonny" Stitt, was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom. He was also one of the best-documented saxophonists of his generation, recording over 100 albums in his lifetime. He was nicknamed the "Lone Wolf" by jazz critic Dan Morgenstern in tribute to his relentless touring and his devotion to jazz. He is considered the greatest disciple of Charlie Parker.… read more

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    Sonny Onoo

    Age 49 Male
    

    Actor, Performer, Wrestler

    
    

    Kazuo Onoo is a Japanese professional wrestling manager, and actor better known by his ring name Sonny Onoo. He is best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling between 1995 and 1999 as the manager of many of the promotion's Japanese performers.… read more

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    Sonny Clark

    1931 - 1963 Male
    

    Pianist, Musician

    
    

    Conrad Yeatis "Sonny" Clark was an American jazz pianist who mainly worked in the hard bop idiom.

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    Sonny Boy Williamson I

    1914 - 1948 Male
    

    Blues Musician

    
    

    Sonny Boy Williamson was an American blues harmonica player and singer, and the first to use the name Sonny Boy Williamson.

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    Sonny Sharrock

    1940 - 1994 Male
    

    Guitarist, Singer, Musician

    
    

    Warren Harding "Sonny" Sharrock was an American jazz guitarist. He was once married to singer Linda Sharrock, with whom he sometimes recorded and performed. One of few guitarists in the first wave of free jazz in the 1960s, Sharrock was known for his incisive, heavily chorded attack, his highly-amplified bursts of wild feedback, and for his use of saxophone-like lines played loudly on guitar.… read more