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Soninke-Marabout Wars
The Soninke-Marabout Wars were 19th-century civil wars across southern Senegambia, fought between traditional animist rulers and Muslim marabout reformers, lasting from the early 1850s to 1901.
Sonio
Sonio SAS was a Paris-based health-tech startup, founded in 2020, that built AI-assisted software for prenatal ultrasound reporting and screening; Samsung Medison acquired it in 2024.
Sonīpat
Sonīpat (सोनीपत, also Sonepat): city and district headquarters in Haryana, India, about 20 km north of Delhi in the National Capital Region; Sanskrit suvarna prastha, "gold place"; district formed from Rohtak on 22 December 1972; Municipal Corporation since 2015.
Sonique (musician)
Sonique (Sonia Clarke), British singer and DJ born in London; S'Express vocalist whose 2000 dance hit It Feels So Good spent three weeks at UK No. 1, won a 2001 Brit Award and Ivor Novello Award, with album Hear My Cry.
Sonita Henry
Sonita Henry (born 1977, Dover, Kent) is an English actress known for The Fifth Element, Star Trek (2009), Dead Space's Ellie Langford, Olympus, The Chelsea Detective, Black Cake, Silo, and Apple TV's Disavowed.
SoniVie
SoniVie Ltd. was an Israeli medical device company, founded in 2014 and based in Rehovot, that developed the TIVUS ultrasound system for renal denervation to treat hypertension.
Sonja Åkesson
Sonja Åkesson (1926–1977) was a Swedish poet and playwright of the "new simplicity" movement, whose poem "Äktenskapsfrågan" became a defining text of the women's movement.
Sonja Biserko
Sonja Biserko, born 1948 in Belgrade, is a Serbian human rights activist and longtime president of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, founded in 1994.
Sonja Edström-Ruthström
Sonja Edström-Ruthström (1930-2020), Swedish cross-country skier from Luleå, nickname "Trollet". Won 3 Olympic medals: 10 km and relay bronze at Cortina 1956, first Swedish woman Olympic skiing medalist, and 3x5 km relay gold at Squaw Valley 1960.
Sonja Gisela Lorenz
Sonja Gisela Lorenz is a structural biochemist who leads a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen, known for defining how ubiquitination enzymes select ubiquitin chain types.
Sonja Greinacher
Sonja Greinacher (born 1992, Essen), nicknamed Sunny G, German basketball player; Paris 2024 women's 3x3 Olympic gold medalist and tournament MVP with 56 points, Germany's first Olympic basketball medal; former Gonzaga player and 78-cap five-on-five international.
Sonja Henie
Sonja Henie (1912–1969), Norwegian figure skater and film star, won three straight Olympic golds (1928, 1932, 1936) and ten consecutive world titles, then starred in Hollywood films and ice shows.
Sonja Hofer
Sonja Hofer is a neuroscientist who leads a research group at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at University College London, studying how visual circuits build predictions.
Sonja J. Olsen
Sonja J. Olsen is an American epidemiologist at the CDC in Atlanta who led the 2003 SARS aircraft study, directed CDC influenza work in Thailand, and investigated H5N1.
Sonja Lehmann
Sonja Lehmann (-Dittbrenner), German field hockey player born 1979 in Berlin, TuS Lichterfelde club; won gold with Germany in women's hockey at the 2004 Athens Olympics and led the 2nd Bundesliga in scoring in 2003/04.
Sonja Moonear
Sonja Moonear, real name Sonja Mounir, is a Swiss DJ, producer, and label head from Geneva known for minimal house and techno and her Ruta5 label.
Sonja Morgan
Sonja Morgan (born 1963), American reality TV personality and fashion entrepreneur, starred on The Real Housewives of New York City for 11 seasons (2010-2021), launched Sonja Morgan New York, and now appears on E!'s The Golden Life.
Sonja Schrepfer
Sonja Schrepfer is a German physician-scientist in transplant immunology and stem cell immunobiology, a professor of surgery at UCSF and scientific founder of Sana Biotechnology's hypoimmune cell platform.
Sonja Sohn
Sonja Sohn (born 1964, Fort Benning, Georgia) is an American actress, slam poet, and documentary director, known for Detective Kima Greggs on The Wire, the film Slam, Baltimore Rising, and ABC's Will Trent. Not the FCC nominee Gigi Sohn or musician SOHN.
Sonja Ständer
Sonja Ständer is a German dermatologist and professor at the University of Münster who heads the Center for Chronic Pruritus and led the clinical studies behind nemolizumab.
Sonja Yelich
Sonja Yelich (born 1965) is an Auckland-based New Zealand poet of Dalmatian descent, author of Clung (2004) and Get Some (2008), winner of the 2005 Jessie Mackay Award and mother of Lorde.
Sonjay Dutt
Sonjay Dutt (Retesh Bhalla, born 1982, Washington D.C.) is an Indian-American pro wrestler, TNA X Division and GFW champion, MLW J-Cup winner, and now AEW Vice President of Production and Creative Coordination.
Sonka
Sonka (Agsinnonka, Chunccajon) is the Iloko Philippine mancala game recorded in 1927 on a 2x5 board with relay sowing; it is an early variant of sungka, the two-rows-of-seven Filipino sowing game with 98 seeds.
Sönke Zaehle
Sönke Zaehle is a German biogeochemist and Earth system modeller who directs the Biogeochemical Signals Department at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena since 2020.
Sonlicromanol
Sonlicromanol (KH176) is Khondrion's investigational redox-modulating small molecule, inhibiting mPGES-1 via metabolite KH176m, in phase 3 KHENERFIN trials for m.3243A>G mitochondrial disease (MELAS, MIDD), not approved anywhere.
Sonmunde Fluctus
Sonmunde Fluctus is a lava flow terrain on Venus, centered at 60° south, 120° east, about 400 km across and named for a Korean mountain goddess in 1997.
Sonneborn
Sonneborn is a specialty hydrochemicals business, a brand of HF Sinclair Corporation, producing high-purity white mineral oils, petrolatums, and waxes for the pharmaceutical, personal care, and food industries.
Sonnedix
Sonnedix is a private global renewable energy company and independent power producer, founded in 2009 and headquartered in London, that owns solar, wind, and battery storage projects.
sonnen
sonnen is a German manufacturer of residential and commercial battery storage systems, founded in 2010 in Wildpoldsried, Bavaria, best known for the sonnenBatterie and its sonnenCommunity virtual power plant.
Sonnet
A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem in fixed rhyme schemes, invented in thirteenth-century Sicily and still among the most used closed poetic forms in English.