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Sonny Landham
Sonny Landham (William Marion Landham, 1941-2017), American actor and stuntman of Cherokee and Seminole descent, played tracker Billy Sole in Predator (1987) and Billy Bear in 48 Hrs. (1982); later ran unsuccessfully for Kentucky office as a Republican and Libertarian.
Sonny Liston
Sonny Liston (Charles Liston, 1932?–1970), American heavyweight boxing champion 1962–1964; beat Floyd Patterson by first-round knockout twice, lost twice to Muhammad Ali, learned boxing in prison, died mysteriously in Las Vegas.
Sonny Liston vs. Cassius Clay
Sonny Liston vs. Cassius Clay refers to two world heavyweight title fights, in 1964 and 1965, both won in upsets by Cassius Clay, the later Muhammad Ali.
Sonny Perdue
Sonny Perdue (born 1946), Georgia governor 2003-2011, 31st U.S. Secretary of Agriculture 2017-2021, and 14th chancellor of the University System of Georgia from 2022, announced retirement in April 2026.
Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins (Walter Theodore Rollins, born September 7, 1930), the 'Saxophone Colossus,' was an American jazz tenor saxophonist known for Saxophone Colossus, St. Thomas, the Williamsburg Bridge practice sabbatical, pianoless trios, and honors including the Kennedy Center Honor and Polar Music Prize.
Sonny Sandoval
Sonny Sandoval, lead vocalist and co-founder of San Diego nu metal band P.O.D. (Payable on Death), frontman of triple-platinum Satellite (2001), author of Son of Southtown, and creator of the solo reggae project Sonny Dread.
Sonny Shroyer
Sonny Shroyer (Otis Burt Shroyer, Jr., born 1935) is an American retired actor, best known as Deputy Enos Strate on The Dukes of Hazzard (1979-1985, 98 episodes), its spin-off Enos, and film roles in Forrest Gump and The Rainmaker.
Sonny Stitt
Sonny Stitt (Edward Boatner Jr., 1924–1982), American bebop alto, tenor, and baritone saxophonist; prolific leader of some 150 sessions, Eckstine and Gillespie bands, Gene Ammons tenor battles, Miles Davis quintet 1960–61, Giants of Jazz.
Sonny Terry
Sonny Terry (Sanders Terrell, 1911–1986) was an American Piedmont blues harmonica player and singer, famed for falsetto whoops, his roughly 40-year duo with Brownie McGhee, the 1938 Spirituals to Swing concert, and a 1982 NEA National Heritage Fellowship.
Sonny Vaccaro
Sonny Vaccaro (John Paul Vincent Vaccaro, born 1939) is a retired American sports marketing executive who signed Michael Jordan to Nike in 1984, created the Air Jordan era, ran the Dapper Dan Classic and ABCD camps, worked for Nike, Adidas, and Reebok, and helped originate the O'Bannon v. NCAA lawsuit.
Sonny with a Chance
Sonny with a Chance is an American sitcom that aired on Disney Channel from 2009 to 2011, starring Demi Lovato as Sonny Munroe, a Midwestern girl who joins the sketch show So Random!
Sonny Wu
Sonny Wu is a China-born venture investor who co-founded GSR Ventures in 2004 and chairs GoldenSand Capital, known for deals in semiconductors, new materials, and new energy.
Sonobuoy
A sonobuoy, also known as a sonar buoy, is an expendable air-launched or ship-launched acoustic sensor that floats on the surface and relays underwater sounds by radio to aircraft or ships.
Sonochemical synthesis
Sonochemical synthesis is a materials chemistry method using ultrasound-generated acoustic cavitation to drive reactions, forming nanostructured metals, oxides, catalysts, and MOFs in minutes instead of hours.
Sonochemistry
Sonochemistry, also called sonolysis, uses ultrasound to initiate or enhance chemical reactions in liquids through acoustic cavitation, the implosive collapse of microscopic bubbles, and is applied in synthesis and nanomaterials.
Sonoco
Sonoco Products Company is an American packaging manufacturer headquartered in Hartsville, South Carolina, founded in 1899 as the Southern Novelty Company and now operating about 265 locations in 37 countries.
Sonodynamic therapy
Sonodynamic therapy (SDT) is an experimental cancer treatment in which ultrasound activates administered sonosensitizer drugs to generate reactive oxygen species that kill tumor cells, potentially reaching deep tumors.
Sonoelastography
Sonoelastography is an ultrasound imaging method that assesses tissue stiffness, used to characterize tumors and stage fibrosis in organs such as the liver, breast, and thyroid.
Sonogashira coupling
Sonogashira coupling, also called the Sonogashira–Hagihara reaction, is a palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction joining a terminal alkyne with an aryl or vinyl halide, first reported in 1975 by Sonogashira, Tohda, and Hagihara.
Sonográfica (Venezuela)
Sonográfica C.A. is a Venezuelan record label registered in Caracas in 1978 by the Phelps family, which dominated the 1980s market with Franco De Vita and Ilan Chester.
Sonohysterography
Sonohysterography, also called saline infusion sonohysterography (SIS) or hysterosonography, is an ultrasound technique in which sterile saline is infused into the uterine cavity to detect polyps, fibroids, and adhesions.
Sonoluminescence
Sonoluminescence is the emission of short light flashes from gas bubbles collapsing in a liquid under intense sound, arising from acoustic cavitation and studied since 1962.
Sonoma County, California
Sonoma County, California: Northern California wine county of 1,800 square miles with 19 AVAs, nearly 60,000 vineyard acres, 425+ wineries, known for Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Dry Creek Zinfandel.
Sonoma Raceway
Sonoma Raceway, formerly Sears Point Raceway and Infineon Raceway, is a motorsports complex in Sonoma, California, opened in 1968, with a 2.52-mile road course and drag strip.
Sonoma State University
Sonoma State University (SSU), founded 1960 as Sonoma State College in Rohnert Park, California, is a California State University campus serving the North Bay; WSCUC-accredited since 1969, now under a Notice of Concern.
Sonoma, California
Sonoma, California: small Sonoma County city (pop. about 10,500) around Mission San Francisco Solano, founded 1823, and site of the 1846 Bear Flag Revolt and the short-lived California Republic.
Sonoporation
Sonoporation is a delivery technique that uses ultrasound, usually with gas-filled microbubbles, to create transient pores in cell membranes so drugs, genes, proteins, and nanoparticles can enter living cells.
Sonora
Sonora, Mexico's second largest state (9.1% of national territory), capital Hermosillo, borders Arizona. Mining (copper, lithium, gold), export manufacturing, Yaqui and Mayo valley agriculture, and 38.2% of national fisheries output.
Sonora Cartel
Sonora Cartel: 1990s Mexican drug trafficking organization identified with Rafael Caro Quintero in Sonora state; its successor groups, the Caborca Cartel and Nuevo Cártel Independiente de Sonora, now fight Los Chapitos for the border desert.
Sonora Matancera
La Sonora Matancera is a Cuban ensemble founded in Matanzas in 1924 by Valentín Cané, best known for Celia Cruz, its lead singer from 1950 to 1965.