All articles starting with S
44,216 articles
Sognefjord
Sognefjord (Sognefjorden), Norway's longest and deepest fjord at 205 km and about 1,308 m, runs from Solund to Skjolden; second longest worldwide after Scoresby Sound, with the UNESCO-listed Nærøyfjord arm.
Sōgō
Sōgō (僧綱) was the premodern Japanese office of monk-officials, first appointed in 624, that supervised monks, nuns, and temples for the state through the ranks of sōjō, sōzu, and risshi.
Sogolon Kedjou
Sogolon Kedjou is the hunchbacked mother of Sundiata Keita in the oral epic of the Mali empire, the second wife of the Mandinka king Maghan Kon Fatta.
Sogolon Planitia
Sogolon Planitia is a 1,600-km volcanic lowland plain on Venus, IAU-named in 1997 after a Mandingo epic heroine, centered at 8°N, 107°E, bordering Haasttse-baad Tessera on Aphrodite Terra's northern margin.
Söğüt (Θηβάσιον)
Söğüt (Thebasion, Θηβάσιον) is a Bilecik Province district in Türkiye, traditionally the winter quarters granted to Ertuğrul Gazi and the founding seat of the Ottoman state, home to the Ertuğrul Gazi Tomb and September commemorations.
Soha Ali Khan
Soha Ali Khan (born 1978, New Delhi) is an Indian actress, author, and podcaster of the Pataudi-Tagore family, daughter of Sharmila Tagore and Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, known for Rang De Basanti, The Perils of Being Moderately Famous, and the podcast All About Her.
Sohag
Sohag (سوهاج, Suhaj): city on the west bank of the Nile in Upper Egypt, capital of Sohag Governorate since 1960, 467 km south of Cairo. Known for the White and Red Monasteries, Sohag University, and New Sohag City; Egypt's poorest governorate.
Sohai Ali Abro
Sohai Ali Abro (سہائی علی ابڑو), born 1994 in Larkana, is a Pakistani actress, dancer, and model known for Pyaray Afzal, Wrong No., Jawani Phir Nahi Ani, and the Lux Style Award-winning biopic Motorcycle Girl; she returned to TV in 2024 with Gentleman and Faraar.
Sohail Afridi
Muhammad Sohail Afridi, PTI politician, Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from 15 October 2025; MPA for PK-70 Bara; youngest KP chief minister, first from tribal districts; removed under October 2026 emergency rule.
Sohail F. Tavazoie
Sohail F. Tavazoie is an American physician-scientist at Rockefeller University who studies how cancers spread, known for the first metastasis-suppressor microRNAs and elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022.
Sohail Khan (सोहैल ख़ान)
Sohail Khan (सोहैल ख़ान), Indian actor, director, producer in Hindi cinema; brother of Salman and Arbaaz Khan; ex-husband of Seema Sajdeh; 2026 reality show Alliance contestant.
Sohail Sakhi
Sohail Sakhi, Pakistani high-altitude mountaineer from Aliabad, Hunza; summited K2, Nanga Parbat, Gasherbrum I and II, and Kangchenjunga without oxygen; co-founded Moving Mountains; killed in the July 30, 2026 Broad Peak avalanche that killed ten climbers including Nirmal Purja.
Sohaila Rastan
Sohaila Rastan is a mouse geneticist known for work on X-chromosome inactivation, especially characterizing the mouse Xist gene, and later director of science funding at the Wellcome Trust.
Soham Chakraborty (সোহম চক্রবর্তী)
Soham Chakraborty (সোহম চক্রবর্তী), born 1984 in Kolkata, is a Bengali film actor and Trinamool Congress MLA; child artist Master Bittu, lead from Bajimaat (2008), Prem Amar (2009) hit, won Chandipur seat in 2021.
Soham Majumdar (সোহম মজুমদার)
Soham Majumdar (সোহম মজুমদার) is an Indian actor from Kolkata working in Bengali and Hindi cinema. Known for Shiva in Kabir Singh (2019), Dhamaka (2021), Dukaan (2024), Citadel: Honey Bunny, and a theatre career with M.A.D. Not to be confused with actor Soham Chakraborty.
Soham murders
The Soham murders: the 2002 killings of 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman by school caretaker Ian Huntley, his 2003 Old Bailey conviction, the Bichard Inquiry, and his 2026 prison death.
Sohan Lal Suri
Sohan Lal Suri (ਸੋਹਨ ਲਾਲ ਸੂਰੀ), died 1852, was a Persian-writing court chronicler and vakil at Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Lahore Darbar, author of the Umdat-ut-Tawarikh.
Sohan Singh Hayreh
Sohan Singh Hayreh, known as S. S. Hayreh (1927–2022), was an Indian-born ophthalmologist and University of Iowa professor whose research defined the ocular circulation and ischemic optic neuropathy.
Sohan Singh Seetal
Sohan Singh Seetal (ਸੋਹਣ ਸਿੰਘ ਸੀਤਲ, 1909–1998) was a Punjabi dhadi singer, poet, and novelist who wrote about 70 books and won the Sahitya Akademi award for Jug Badal Gya in 1974.
Sohar (port)
Sohar Port is a deep-sea industrial port in northern Oman on the Gulf of Oman, midway between Dubai and Muscat and one of Oman's three major commercial ports.
Sohar III power plant
Sohar III power plant, also known as Sohar 3 IPP, is a 1,710 MW natural gas-fired combined cycle power plant at Sohar, Oman, in commercial operation since 2019.
Sohbet
Sohbet, also known by its alternative name söyleşi, is a Turkish prose genre of warm, conversational opinion writing that entered Turkish literature through journalism in the Tanzimat period.
Sōhei (僧兵)
Sōhei (僧兵), "monk soldiers," is the Edo-period term for armed temple forces of Heian-to-Sengoku Japan, active around Enryaku-ji and Kōfuku-ji; contemporaries called them akusō or daishū, and Nobunaga's 1571 burning of Mount Hiei ended their power.
Sohei Kamiya
Sohei Kamiya (born 1977) is a Japanese politician who founded the Sanseitō party in 2020, was elected to the House of Councillors in 2022, and became its leader in 2025.
Soheil Feizi
Soheil Feizi is a computer scientist and associate professor at the University of Maryland who researches trustworthy machine learning and received the 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.
Sohhee
Sohee (소희) is a South Korean singer and main vocalist of RIIZE, the SM Entertainment boy group that debuted in 2023 with "Get A Guitar".
Sohla El-Waylly
Sohla El-Waylly is an American chef, cookbook author, and TV personality; CIA-trained, ex-Bon Appétit editor, creator of Stump Sohla and Ancient Recipes with Sohla, judge on The Big Brunch, and James Beard-winning author of Start Here.
Sohn Kee-chung
Sohn Kee-chung was a Korean marathon runner who won the 1936 Berlin Olympic marathon in an Olympic record, becoming the first Korean to win Olympic gold.
Sohnag Mound
Sohnag Mound (सोहनाग), also spelled Sohanag, is an extensive ancient brick-ruins mound at Sohnag village, Salempur tehsil, Deoria district, Uttar Pradesh; a centrally protected ASI Sarnath Circle monument since 1920, source of the 1945 terracotta seal of Avantivarman.
Sohni Mahiwal (سوہنی مہیوال)
Sohni Mahiwal (سوہنی مہیوال), also Suhini-Mehar, is a Punjabi and Sindhi tragic love folktale of the Indus valley: Sohni swims the Chenab nightly to her lover Mahiwal until a swapped unbaked clay pot dissolves and both drown; classic texts by Fazal Shah Sayyad and Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai.