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Bonnie Hunt

Bonnie Hunt (Bonnie Lynn Hunt), Chicago-born actress, comedian, writer, and talk-show host; former oncology nurse, Second City alumna, creator of Life With Bonnie and The Bonnie Hunt Show, and voice of Sally in Cars and Dolly in Toy Story.

Bonnie J. Dunbar

Bonnie J. Dunbar is an American engineer and retired NASA astronaut who flew five Space Shuttle missions between 1985 and 1998, logging over 1,000 hours in space.

Bonnie L. Bassler

Bonnie L. Bassler, also known as Bonnie Bassler, is an American molecular biologist at Princeton University whose research on quorum sensing, how bacteria communicate, earned the 2026 Copley Medal.

Bonnie Langford

Bonnie Langford (Bonita Melody Lysette Langford, born 1964) is an English actress, dancer and singer: Opportunity Knocks child winner, Rumpleteaser in Cats, Mel Bush in Doctor Who, Carmel Kazemi in EastEnders, and Mrs Bird in Paddington The Musical.

Bonnie McCay

Bonnie McCay is an American anthropologist and human ecologist at Rutgers University known for research on fisheries and the commons, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.

Bonnie McFarlane

Bonnie McFarlane, Canadian-American stand-up comedian from Cold Lake, Alberta; Last Comic Standing season 2 finalist, Comedy Central Presents and HBO One Night Stand specials, director of Women Aren't Funny, author of You're Better Than Me, My Wife Hates Me podcast with husband Rich Vos.

Bonnie McKee

Bonnie McKee (Bonnie Leigh McKee, born 1984) is an American singer-songwriter who co-wrote Katy Perry hits like Teenage Dream and Roar, plus Dynamite and Hold It Against Me; solo albums Trouble and Hot City.

Bonnie Mealing

Bonnie Mealing (Philomena Alecia Mealing-Johnston, 1912-2002), Australian backstroke swimmer; 100 m backstroke world record holder 1930-1932 and silver medalist at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics.

Bonnie Nettles

Bonnie Nettles, known within her movement as Ti, was a Houston nurse who co-founded the millenarian religious group Heaven's Gate with Marshall Applewhite, leading it until her 1985 death.

Bonnie Piesse

Bonnie Maree Piesse (born 1983) is an Australian actress and singer-songwriter from Melbourne who played Beru Whitesun Lars in Star Wars Episodes II, III, and Disney+'s Obi-Wan Kenobi, and appeared in HBO's The Vow after leaving NXIVM in 2017.

Bonnie Pointer

Bonnie Pointer (Patricia Eva Pointer, 1950-2020), American singer, founding member of the Pointer Sisters, co-writer of Grammy-winning Fairytale, and Motown soloist behind the 1979 disco hit Heaven Must Have Sent You.

Bonnie Raitt

Bonnie Raitt, American blues-rock singer, songwriter, and slide guitarist; 13 Grammys from 31 nominations, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee (2000), 21 albums from 1971's Bonnie Raitt to 2022's Just Like That…, which won Song of the Year in 2023; known for Delta-style slide on a 1965 Stratocaster.

Bonnie Ramsey

Bonnie Ramsey is an American pediatric pulmonologist at the University of Washington who led trials of inhaled tobramycin, dornase alfa, and the CF drug ivacaftor.

Bonnie Rotten

Bonnie Rotten, born Alaina Antoinette Hicks in 1993, is an American former pornographic actress, feature dancer, fetish model, and director from Ohio.

Bonnie Somerville

Bonnie Somerville is an American actress and singer (born 1974, Brooklyn). Known as Mona on Friends, Det. Laura Murphy on NYPD Blue, Courtney Scott on Grosse Pointe, and Dr. Christa Lorenson on Code Black, plus the Garden State song "Winding Road." Not Bonnie Tyler, the singer.

Bonnie Stoll

Bonnie Stoll, American former pro racquetball player and personal trainer, was Diana Nyad's head handler and coach for the 2013 Cuba-to-Florida swim; co-founder of BravaBody and EverWalk; portrayed by Jodie Foster in Nyad.

Bonnie Tu

Bonnie Tu (杜绣珍, Tu Hsiu-chen) is a Taiwanese bicycle-industry executive who chaired Giant Group, the world's largest bicycle brand, from 2017 to 2024 and founded the women's cycling brand Liv.

Bonnie Tyler

Bonnie Tyler (Gaynor Hopkins, 1951–2026), Welsh singer famed for her raspy voice and the hits "It's a Heartache", "Total Eclipse of the Heart", and "Holding Out for a Hero"; 18 studio albums, Eurovision 2013, MBE.

Bonnie W. Ramsey

Bonnie W. Ramsey is an American pediatric pulmonologist and University of Washington professor emerita who developed inhaled tobramycin (TOBI), the first inhaled antibiotic for cystic fibrosis.

Bonnie Wang

Bonnie Wang is a partner at Qiming Venture Partners, a Chinese venture capital firm, who has invested in internet and consumer companies such as NEIWAI and PETKIT since 2012.

Bonnie Watson Coleman

Bonnie Watson Coleman is an American Democratic politician who has represented New Jersey's 12th congressional district in the U.S. House since 2015, after eight terms in the state Assembly.

Bonnie Webber

Bonnie Lynn Webber, born 1946, is a computer scientist and emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh, known for the Penn Discourse TreeBank and the ACL's 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award.

Bonnie Wright

Bonnie Wright (born 1991, London) is the English actress who played Ginny Weasley in all eight Harry Potter films (2001–2011); since then a director (Separate We Come, Separate We Go; Medusa's Ankles), BonBonLumiere founder, and Greenpeace environmental activist and author of Go Gently.

Bonniers Litterära Magasin

Bonniers Litterära Magasin was a Swedish literary magazine published in Stockholm by Albert Bonniers Förlag from 1932 to 1999, and briefly revived from 2002 to 2004.

Bonnor–Weber–Wheeler solution

The Bonnor–Weber–Wheeler solution, also written WWB, is an exact vacuum solution of Einstein's field equations describing a cylindrical pulse of gravitational radiation that implodes on the axis and reflects.

Bonny Civil War

The Bonny Civil War was an 1869 conflict between rival canoe houses that split Bonny, a trading state in the Niger Delta of present-day Nigeria, into two, creating Opobo.

Bonny Lee Bakley

Bonny Lee Bakley (1956–2001), also called Bonnie Bakley, was the wife of actor Robert Blake, shot dead outside Vitello's in Studio City; Blake was criminally acquitted in 2005 but found liable for $30 million.

Bonny Light

Bonny Light is a light, sweet Nigerian crude oil grade exported through the Bonny terminal in Rivers State and part of the OPEC Reference Basket.

Bonny Oil Field

The Bonny Oil Field is an operating conventional oil field offshore Nigeria in the southeastern Niger Delta, under OML 52, operated by Amni International with NNPC holding 60 percent.

Bonny Terminal

The Bonny Terminal, formally the Bonny Oil and Gas Terminal, is a crude oil export terminal on Bonny Island, Rivers State, Nigeria, commissioned by Shell in April 1961.