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Sophie B. Hawkins

Sophie B. Hawkins is an American singer-songwriter from New York City, known for her platinum 1992 debut Tongues and Tails and the hit "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover."

Sophie Bray

Sophie Charlotte Bray (born 1990, Grasse, France) is an English field hockey forward, Rio 2016 Olympic gold medallist with Great Britain, 2015 European champion, MBE, retired internationally in 2019, now a padel player.

Sophie Calle

Sophie Calle (born 1953, Paris) is a French conceptual artist, photographer, writer, and filmmaker known for rule-bound private games like The Sleepers, Suite Venitienne, The Hotel, and The Blind, and for representing France at the 2007 Venice Biennale.

Sophie Capewell

Sophie Capewell (born 1998) is a British track sprinter from Lichfield, based in Manchester. Olympic and world team sprint champion in 2024 with Finucane and Marchant, world record 45.186, MBE 2025, Commonwealth silver medallist.

Sophie Choudry

Sophie Choudry (Sophia), British-Indian singer, actress, VJ, and host born 1982 in Manchester; known for Hindi pop remixes Ek Pardesi and Mera Babu Chhail Chhabila, MTV India VJ work, Bollywood film appearances, and the fitness show Famously Fit with Sophie.

Sophie Christiansen

Sophie Christiansen (Sophie Margaret Christiansen, born 1987) is a British para-equestrian dressage rider from Ascot, Berkshire, who won 8 golds across four Paralympics from 2004 to 2016.

Sophie Cookson

Sophie Cookson (born 1990) is an English actress known as Roxy in Kingsman: The Secret Service and The Golden Circle, the title role in BBC's The Trial of Christine Keeler, and roles in Red Joan, Infinite, and This Time Next Year.

Sophie Cunningham

Sophie Cunningham (born 1996) is an American WNBA guard, Missouri's all-time scoring leader, drafted 13th overall by Phoenix in 2019, traded to the Indiana Fever in 2025; known for three-point shooting and polarizing comments on transgender athletes.

Sophie D. Fosså

Sophie D. Fosså (born 1941) is a Norwegian oncologist and professor emerita at Oslo University Hospital known for prostate and testicular cancer research and late-effects studies.

Sophie Dahl

Sophie Dahl (born 1977, London) is an English author and former model, granddaughter of Roald Dahl; known for Miss Dahl's Voluptuous Delights, the BBC2 series The Delicious Miss Dahl, and the Madame Badobedah children's books.

Sophie Duker

Sophie Duker (born 1990) is an English stand-up comedian, writer, and actor, winner of Taskmaster series 13 (2022). Known for Edinburgh shows Venus, Hag, and Hot Beef Injection, and for hosting the Wacky Racists comedy club.

Sophie Edington

Sophie Edington (Sophia Jane Edington, born 1984) is an Australian backstroke swimmer, 2008 Beijing Olympian, four-time Commonwealth Games gold medalist, and former 50 m backstroke world record holder (27.67, 2008).

Sophie Elgort

Sophie Elgort, New York photographer, director, and TV host, daughter of Arthur Elgort and sister of Ansel Elgort; founder of ClickHouse and host/executive producer of the Emmy-nominated PBS/ALL ARTS series Portrait Mode.

Sophie Eliott Lynn

Sophia Eliott Lynn, also Sophie Eliott-Lynn and Lady Mary Heath (1896–1939), Irish-born athlete and aviator: women's high jump world record holder (1.485 m, 1923), WAAA javelin champion, Britain's first woman commercial pilot, and first woman to fly solo from South Africa to England.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Sophie Ellis-Bextor (Sophie Michelle Ellis-Bextor, born 1979) is an English singer-songwriter, formerly of theaudience, famous for Spiller's "Groovejet" and "Murder on the Dancefloor", revived by Saltburn in 2024.

Sophie Elmhirst

Sophie Elmhirst is a British journalist and author writing for the Guardian Long Read and The Economist. Winner of the 2020 Feature Writer of the Year award, her first book Maurice and Maralyn, also titled A Marriage at Sea, won the 2024 Nero Gold Prize.

Sophie Fiennes

Sophie Fiennes (born 1967) is an English documentary director known for the Slavoj Žižek Pervert's Guide trilogy and portraits of Anselm Kiefer and Grace Jones.

Sophie Flay

Sophie Flay (born 1996) is an American broadcast journalist, daughter of chef Bobby Flay, co-anchoring ABC's World News Now and GMA First Look since 2025 after ABC7 Los Angeles reporting and Food Network shows The Flay List and Bobby and Sophie on the Coast.

Sophie Germain

Sophie Germain, born Marie-Sophie Germain, was a self-taught French mathematician who proved the first general results toward Fermat's Last Theorem and won the Paris Academy's 1816 grand prize.

Sophie Gilbert

Sophie Gilbert is a London-born staff writer at The Atlantic (since 2014), 2022 Pulitzer Criticism finalist, 2024 National Magazine Award winner, and author of Girl on Girl (2025) on pop culture and women.

Sophie Gradon

Sophie Gradon (Sophie Hannah Gradon, 1985–2018) was an English model, Miss Great Britain 2009 and Love Island series 2 (2016) contestant, part of the show's first same-sex couple with Katie Salmon; she died aged 32 in Ponteland.

Sophie Grégoire Trudeau

Sophie Grégoire Trudeau (born 1975, Montreal) is a Canadian mental health advocate, bestselling memoirist, and former TV and radio host, etalk's Quebec reporter and wife of Justin Trudeau from 2005 until their 2023 separation.

Sophie Habboo

Sophie Habboo is a British reality television personality who joined the E4 series Made in Chelsea in 2019 and later built a media career with her husband, Jamie Laing.

Sophie Hansson

Sophie Hansson, Swedish breaststroke swimmer born 1998 in Helsingborg; 2021 European 100 m breaststroke champion, three-time Olympian, and double short-course world relay champion at Abu Dhabi 2021.

Sophie Hermans

Sophie Hermans is a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) serving as Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport, and formerly Deputy Prime Minister.

Sophie Hosking

Sophie Hosking (Sophie Hannah Marguerite Hosking), born 1986 in Edinburgh, is a British retired rower who won lightweight women's double sculls gold with Kat Copeland at London 2012 in 7:09.30, took three world bronzes and a world silver, and received an MBE in 2013 before retiring to law.

Sophie Hunter

Sophie Hunter (born 1978) is a British theatre and opera director, playwright, and producer; directorial debut The Terrific Electric (Barbican, 2007), Associate Director on Enron, producer of The End We Start From, and wife of Benedict Cumberbatch.

Sophie Khan Levy

Sophie Khan Levy (born 1989, Wandsworth, London) is an English actress, daughter of Shaheen Khan, known as Priya Nandra-Hart in EastEnders, RSC roles in As You Like It and Measure for Measure, and The Sixth Commandment.

Sophie Kim

Sophie Kim (김슬아, Kim Seol-ah), born 1983, is a South Korean entrepreneur who founded Kurly in 2014 and leads its Market Kurly online grocery service, known for dawn delivery.

Sophie Kinsella

Sophie Kinsella, pen name of Madeleine Wickham (1969-2025), British novelist of the Shopaholic series starring Becky Bloomwood; over 50 million copies sold, also wrote seven darker Madeleine Wickham novels.