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Sonia Gardner

Sonia Gardner is an American investor who co-founded Avenue Capital Group with her brother Marc Lasry in 1995 and serves as its President and Managing Partner.

Sonia Garel

Sonia Garel, born 1972 in Paris, is a French neurobiologist who studies how brain circuits are assembled during development and how microglia take part in that assembly.

Sonia Gomes

Sonia Gomes is a Brazilian sculptor and assemblage artist, born in 1948 in Caetanópolis, who transforms found textiles and everyday objects into abstract, often suspended sculptures.

Sonia Greene

Sonia Greene, later Sonia Haft Greene Lovecraft Davis, was an amateur journalist who married H. P. Lovecraft in 1924 and ran a Fifth Avenue hat shop.

Sonia Guillén

Sonia Guillén Oneeglio (born 1953, Huánuco) is a Peruvian bioarchaeologist known for mummy studies, founder of Centro Mallqui and leader of the 1997 Laguna de los Cóndores mummies rescue.

Sonia Hernández–Dı́az

Sonia Hernández-Díaz is a Spanish-trained physician and pharmacoepidemiologist, professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, known for drug safety research in pregnancy.

Sonia Isabelle Seneviratne

Sonia Isabelle Seneviratne, also known as Sonia I. Seneviratne, is a Swiss climate scientist, professor of land-climate dynamics at ETH Zurich, studying droughts and heat extremes.

Sonia Kruger

Sonia Kruger (born 1962, Toowoomba; some listings 1965) is an Australian TV presenter and former ballroom dancer, host of Dancing with the Stars, Big Brother, and The Voice, Tina Sparkle in Strictly Ballroom, and 2023 Gold Logie winner.

Sonia Liebing

Sonia Liebing (born 1989 in Cologne) is a German pop-Schlager singer who released four studio albums between 2019 and 2025 and topped the German airplay charts in 2025.

Sonia M'Barek

Sonia M'Barek (سنية مبارك), born 1969 in Sfax, Tunisia, is a singer of classical Arabic music credited as the first female malouf performer and minister of culture in 2016.

Sonia Manzano

Sonia Manzano (born 1950) is the Puerto Rican American actress and writer who played Maria on Sesame Street from 1971 to 2015, won 15 writing Emmys, and created PBS KIDS' Alma's Way.

Sonia O'Sullivan

Sonia O'Sullivan (born 1969, Cobh, Ireland), Irish distance runner; Olympic 5000m silver Sydney 2000, 1995 World 5000m champion, 1998 World Cross Country champion, 2000m world record 5:25.36, four-time Olympian.

Sonia Rathee

Sonia Rathee is an Indian-American actress and dancer who works in Indian streaming series and Hindi films, known for Broken But Beautiful season 3 (2021) and Tara vs Bilal (2022).

Sonia Rykiel

Sonia Rykiel (Sonia Flis, 1930-2016), French designer and writer, founder of the 1968 Paris knitwear house; known as Queen of Knitwear for striped poor-boy sweaters, inside-out seams, and unfinished garments; brand liquidated 2019, revived under G-III since 2021.

Sonia S. Anand

Sonia S. Anand is a Canadian vascular medicine specialist and epidemiologist at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, known for the SHARE and INTERHEART studies of heart attack risk.

Sonia Sotomayor

Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court since August 8, 2009, its first Hispanic justice; Bronx-born, Princeton and Yale Law, former SDNY and Second Circuit judge, known for pointed liberal dissents.

Sonia Sutcliffe

Sonia Sutcliffe, nee Sonia Szurma, English school teacher, married Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe in 1974; won 1989 Private Eye libel case, lost 1990 News of the World case, divorced 1994, remarried Michael Woodward 1997.

Sonia Vázquez

Sonia Vázquez, also known as Sonia Vazquez, is a Spanish computer scientist in natural language processing at the University of Alicante, known for word sense disambiguation and Senseval-3 systems.

SONiC (network operating system)

SONiC (Software for Open Networking in the Cloud) is an open-source network operating system for switches and routers, originating at Microsoft and now a Linux Foundation project.

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed (Sega, 2012), Sumo Digital's kart racer, is the sequel to Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing. Vehicles transform between car, boat, and plane mid-race, and courses change between laps; Metacritic 82, 1.36 million sold.

Sonic & Knuckles

Sonic & Knuckles, 1994 Sega Mega Drive/Genesis platformer, second half of Sonic 3 made playable via Lock-On Technology cartridge slot; combining adds Knuckles, Super Emeralds, Hyper forms.

Sonic 3D Blast

Sonic 3D Blast, aka Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island, is a 1996 isometric platform game by Traveller's Tales for Sega Genesis and Saturn, with Flicky-collecting gameplay and a 2017 director's cut.

Sonic Adventure

Sonic Adventure (ソニックアドベンチャー) is Sonic Team's 1998–99 Dreamcast 3D platformer, the series' first full 3D entry and best-selling Dreamcast game at 2.5 million copies, with six interlocking character campaigns and the Chao Garden.

Sonic Adventure 2

Sonic Adventure 2 (Dreamcast, June 23, 2001), also known as Sonic Adventure 2: Battle on GameCube, is Sonic Team's hero-versus-dark 3D action game with Shadow, Rouge, three gameplay styles, and the VMU-linked Chao Garden.

Sonic anemometer

A sonic anemometer measures wind speed and direction from the travel-time difference of ultrasonic pulses between transducers, with no moving parts, and is the standard sensor for turbulence and eddy-covariance measurements.

Sonic black hole

A sonic black hole, also called a dumb hole, is a laboratory system where fluid flows faster than sound, trapping sound like a black hole traps light.

Sonic boom

A sonic boom, also called a sonic crack, is the thunder-like sound produced when an aircraft flying faster than sound sends shock waves to the ground.

Sonic Boom (TV series)

Sonic Boom (Sonic Toon, ソニックトゥーン, in Japan) is a 2014-2017 CGI comedy series co-produced by Sega of America and OuiDO! Productions, aired on Cartoon Network, Canal J and Gulli; two 52-episode seasons showrun by Evan Baily and Bill Freiberger.

Sonic Boom of the South

The Sonic Boom of the South is the 300-member show-style marching band of Jackson State University in Mississippi, which has performed at the Super Bowl LVIII halftime show and the Rose Parade.

Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric

Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric is a 2014 Wii U action-adventure game developed by Big Red Button and published by Sega, part of the Sonic Boom spin-off series tied to the animated show.