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Sofya Muratova

Sofya Muratova (Софья Ивановна Муратова, 1929–2006), Soviet artistic gymnast, two-time Olympic team champion (1956, 1960) with eight Olympic medals, five-time USSR all-around champion, wife of Valentin Muratov, later coach.

Sep 19, 2026

Sofya of Axum

Sofya of Axum, remembered in Ethiopian tradition as Ahyäwa Sofya, is an early fourth-century queen of Aksum, traditionally ruling when Christianity was introduced to the kingdom.

Sofya Tikhonova

Sofya Tikhonova (Софья Дмитриевна Тихонова), Russian ski jumper born 1998 in St. Petersburg; 2016 Youth Olympic gold and silver medalist who also competed at the 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics.

Sofya Velikaya

Sofya Velikaya (Софья Александровна Великая), born 1985 in Almaty, Russian sabre fencer; two-time Olympic team sabre champion (2016, 2020), three-time individual Olympic silver medallist, eight-time world champion, first woman to win Olympic team sabre gold twice.

Sofyan Amrabat (سفيان عمرابط)

Sofyan Amrabat (سفيان عمرابط), born 1996 in Huizen, Netherlands, is a Moroccan defensive midfielder (Ajax, formerly Fiorentina, Manchester United loan, Fenerbahçe) and 2022 World Cup semi-finalist with Morocco.

Soga clan

The Soga clan (蘇我氏) was a powerful ministerial lineage that dominated the Yamato court from the mid-6th century until 645, championing Buddhism and placing relatives on the throne.

Soga no Emishi

Soga no Emishi (蘇我蝦夷) was the leader of the Soga clan and grand minister of the Yamato court from 626, deciding two imperial successions before his suicide in 645.

Soga no Iname

Soga no Iname (蘇我稲目, c. 506–570) was chief minister of the Yamato court under Emperors Senka and Kinmei, who championed Buddhism, built Japan's first temple, and made the Soga kin of emperors.

Soga no Iruka

Soga no Iruka (蘇我入鹿) was a powerful Soga clan minister of Asuka Japan, son of Soga no Emishi, assassinated in the Isshi Incident of 645.

Soga no Iruka's destruction of Prince Yamashiro's house

Soga no Iruka's destruction of Prince Yamashiro's house was the 643 annihilation of Prince Yamashiro's family, ending the royal line of Shōtoku Taishi, at Ikaruga, Japan.

Soga no Kurayamada no Ishikawa no Maro

Soga no Kurayamada no Ishikawa no Maro (蘇我倉山田石川麻呂) was a Soga clan statesman who became the first udaijin under Emperor Kōtoku, dying by suicide in 649.

Soga no Umako

Soga no Umako (蘇我馬子) was head of the Soga clan and grand minister of the Yamato court, who destroyed the Mononobe in 587 and died in 626.

Soga Shōhaku's fantastic style

Soga Shōhaku's fantastic style is the idiosyncratic painting mode of Edo-period artist Soga Shōhaku (曾我蕭白, 1730–1781), who rendered traditional subjects with grotesque humor, brilliant colors, and supernatural realms.

Soga Sukenari

Soga Sukenari (曽我十郎祐成, 1172–1193) was a Japanese warrior who, with his brother Tokimune, killed their father's enemy Kudō Suketsune during Yoritomo's 1193 hunt at Mount Fuji.

Soga Tokimune

Soga Tokimune (曽我五郎時致, 1174–1193) was a Japanese samurai who avenged his father by killing Kudo Suketsune during Minamoto no Yoritomo's 1193 hunt at Mount Fuji.

Soga–Mononobe conflict

The Soga–Mononobe conflict was a sixth-century power struggle at the Yamato court between the Soga and Mononobe clans over Buddhism, imperial succession, and the direction of the state.

SOGA, coiled-coil domain

SOGA coiled-coil domain (Pfam PF11365, InterPro IPR027881 SOGA_CC): a conserved N-terminal coiled-coil domain of the SOGA family proteins SOGA1, SOGA2/MTCL1, and SOGA3, involved in autophagy regulation and mitotic chromosome segregation.

Sogak

Sogak (속악, common music) is the vernacular branch of Korean traditional music, opposed to ritual aak; in modern classification it means folk music like pansori and sanjo.

Sogamoso

Sogamoso, historically Suamox or Sugamuxi, is a city in Boyacá, Colombia, and the former religious capital of the Muisca, home to the Temple of the Sun.

Sogamoso Dam

The Sogamoso Dam, commercially Hidrosogamoso, is a 190-meter-high hydroelectric dam on the Sogamoso River in Santander, Colombia, built by Isagen between 2009 and 2014 with an installed capacity of 820 MW.

Sep 19, 2026

Sogand

Sogand (سوگند), the stage name of Sogand Soheili, is an Iranian rapper, singer, and songwriter born in Isfahan in 1987, known as a pioneering woman in Persian hip-hop.

Sogbo Dorsa

Sogbo Dorsa, a 900-km-long ridge (dorsum) on Venus at 40S, 237E, IAU-named in 1997 for a Fon thunder deity of Benin; a compressional Venusian ridge belt imaged by Magellan.

Sogdia

Sogdia (Sogdiana), the Classical name for Suγd, an ancient Central Asian region north of the Oxus around Samarkand; homeland of Sogdian Silk Road merchants whose language was the trade lingua franca before Persian.

Sogdian alphabet

Sogdian alphabet: the Central Asian abjad derived from Aramaic around the beginning of the era to write Sogdian; earliest monuments are the Kultobe inscriptions and the Dunhuang Ancient Letters; ancestor of Old Uyghur, Mongolian, and Manchu scripts.

Sogdian art

Sogdian art is the pre-Islamic art of Sogdiana in Central Asia, centered in the Zeravshan valley, known above all for murals, clay sculpture, and wood carving.

Sogdian merchant diaspora

The Sogdian merchant diaspora was a network of traders from Sogdiana, centered on Samarkand, who dominated the inland Silk Road's luxury trade from the third to the ninth century.

Sogdian murals of Panjikent

The Sogdian murals of Panjikent are 5th- to 8th-century wall paintings of the Sogdian city of Panjikent in present-day Tajikistan, depicting deities, feasts, and epics.

Soggade Chinni Nayana (సొగ్గాడే చిన్ని నాయనా)

Soggade Chinni Nayana (సోగ్గాడే చిన్నినాయనా) is a 2016 Telugu supernatural family drama directed by Kalyan Krishna, produced by Nagarjuna's Annapurna Studios, starring Nagarjuna in a dual ghost-and-son role with Ramya Krishnan and Lavanya Tripathi; released 15 January 2016, 145 minutes, streaming on Sun Nxt.

SOGIE Equality Bill

SOGIE Equality Bill, also SOGIESC Equality Bill or Anti-Discrimination Bill: long-pending Philippine legislation first filed in 2000 to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, expression, and sex characteristics, with fines up to PHP 250,000; still unenacted.