This isn't really much of a famous bearer, but in the movie Harold and Maude one of Harold's potential girlfriends (as introduced to him through his overbearing mother) was a budding actress called Sunshine Doré - or, at least that was her in-universe stage name. Because of this, I can't really take this name seriously. By the way, she was played by Ellen Geer. :)
I will forever associate this "name" with the prostitute Sunshine on the Eddie Murphy & Richard Pryor movie "Harlem Nights."
― Anonymous User 3/2/2009
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Sunshine is a book by Robin McKinley. The heroine of the book is named Raven, and her nickname became Rae, which then became Sunshine. I love this book, and I think this is a beautiful name! What's wrong with Hippie names? They're better than ugly, overused names like Emily or Sarah. You could go by Sun or Sunny, or just plain Sunshine! It's lovely!
Sunshine was the nickname of the main character, Homer Wells, in John Irving's novel "The Cider House Rules".In my opinion, it is a cute nickname but would be an embarassing first name.