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Sophie Kumpen

Sophie Kumpen (born 1975, Hasselt, Belgium) is a Belgian former karting champion, winner of the 1995 Andrea Margutti Trophy, who raced Fisichella, Trulli, Button, and Horner, retired in 1996 upon marrying F1 driver Jos Verstappen, and is the mother of Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen.

Sophie Lee

Sophie Lee (born 1968, Newcastle, NSW) is the Australian actress, presenter, and author of Alice in La La Land, known for hosting the Bugs Bunny Show and for Muriel's Wedding, The Castle, and Holy Smoke; distinct from other performers named Sophie Lee.

Sophie Leigh Stone

Sophie Leigh Stone, also credited as Sophie Stone, is an English deaf actress, the first deaf person trained at RADA (graduated 2008), known for Cass in Doctor Who (2015), Princess Alice in The Crown, and Ashley Wilton in The Chelsea Detective.

Sophie Lloyd

Sophie Lloyd is a London-based British rock and metal guitarist who rose from YouTube shred covers to touring with Machine Gun Kelly from 2022, released the debut album Imposter Syndrome in 2023 on Autumn Records, and holds the first female signature model with Kiesel.

Sophie Lowe

Sophie Lowe (born 1990, Sheffield, England) is a British-born Australian actress and singer-songwriter, star of Beautiful Kate and ABC's Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, known also for Blow the Man Down and Medieval.

Sophie Marceau

Sophie Marceau, born Sophie Maupu in 1966, is a French actress, director, and writer revealed by La Boum (1980), a César winner, Braveheart and Bond actress, and three-time favorite French personality.

Sophie Martin

Sophie G. Martin is a Swiss cell biologist known for research on cell polarity and cell fusion in fission yeast, and a professor at the University of Geneva.

Sophie McShera

Sophie McShera (born 1985, Bradford, England) is an English actress known as Daisy in Downton Abbey (2010–2015 and three films), Drisella in Cinderella (2015), Bryony in The Job Lot, and Gwynne in Galavant.

Sophie Monk

Sophie Monk (Sophie Charlene Akland Monk, born 1979, London) is an Australian singer, actress, and TV host who rose to fame in the girl group Bardot from Popstars (2000), released Calendar Girl (2003), acted in Date Movie and Click, and hosts Love Island Australia.

Sophie Morgan

Sophie Morgan, British TV presenter, travel writer, artist and disability rights advocate; paralyzed in a 2003 car crash; Paralympics host for Channel 4 and NBC, founder of Rights on Flights, author of Driving Forwards.

Sophie Nélisse

Sophie Nélisse (Marie-Sophie Nélisse), born 2000 in Windsor, Ontario, is a Canadian actress known for Monsieur Lazhar (Genie and Jutra winner), The Book Thief's Liesel Meminger, and teen Shauna on Yellowjackets.

Sophie Okonedo

Sophie Okonedo, born 1968 in London, is a British actress of Nigerian and Jewish heritage, RADA-trained, Oscar-nominated for Hotel Rwanda (2004), Tony winner for A Raisin in the Sun (2014), and known for Medea, Slow Horses, and Clarissa.

Sophie Piccard

Sophie Piccard (1904–1990) was a Russian-born Swiss mathematician at the University of Neuchâtel who in 1943 became the first woman full professor at a Swiss university.

Sophie Polkamp

Sophie Polkamp, born 1984 in Groningen, is a retired Dutch field hockey defender who won Olympic gold at Beijing 2008 and London 2012, the 2006 World Cup, and later worked in media and graphic design.

Sophie Powers

Sophie Powers (Sophie Luborsky, born 2004, Toronto) is a Canadian hyperpop/pop-punk singer-songwriter and fashion designer based in Los Angeles; EPs Red in Revenge (2022) and Glitch: Lvl 1 (2024), independent since 2022, viral 2025 American Idol audition, K-pop collaborations with ILLIT and NMIXX.

Sophie Rain

Sophie Rain (@sophieraiin) is an American OnlyFans creator from Miami and Tampa who launched her page in May 2023, co-founded the Bop House with Aishah Sofey in December 2024, and reports over $100 million in gross earnings.

Sophie Raworth

Sophie Raworth (born 1968) is a BBC journalist and broadcaster presenting BBC One's News at Six and Ten, former Breakfast, Six O'Clock, and One O'Clock News anchor, jubilee and royal events presenter, and ultramarathon runner and author of Running on Air.

Sophie Rundle

Sophie Rundle (born 1988) is an English actress, RADA graduate, known as Ada Shelby in Peaky Blinders, Ann Walker in Gentleman Jack, Vicky Budd in Bodyguard, and Jo Marshall in After the Flood.

Sophie Schmidt

Sophie Schmidt (Sophie Diana Schmidt), Canadian midfielder born 1988 in Winnipeg, raised in Abbotsford, BC; 226 Canada caps 2005-2023, 20 goals, Olympic gold Tokyo 2020 plus bronzes 2012 and 2016, five World Cups, Houston Dash midfielder.

Sophie Schmidt (publisher)

Sophie Schmidt is an American publisher who founded Rest of World, a nonprofit covering technology's impact outside the West, in 2019 and won a National Magazine Award.

Sophie Scholl

Sophie Scholl, a German student and member of the White Rose, was arrested in Munich in 1943 for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets and was executed by guillotine the following month.

Sophie Scholl – The Final Days

Sophie Scholl – The Final Days (Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage) is a 2005 German drama by Marc Rothemund starring Julia Jentsch, dramatizing the White Rose member's arrest, Gestapo interrogation, trial, and 1943 execution; Oscar-nominated, with two Silver Bears.

Sophie Scott

Sophie Scott is a British cognitive neuroscientist, Professor and Director of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, known for research on speech and laughter and for presenting the 2017 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.

Sophie Simmons

Sophie Simmons (Sophie Tweed-Simmons), born 1992, American pop singer-songwriter, daughter of KISS's Gene Simmons and Shannon Tweed; independent artist behind "Black Mirror" and songwriter for NewJeans, Leah Kate, and others.

Sophie Skelton

Sophie Skelton (Sophie Alexandra Skelton, born 1994, Woodford, Cheshire) is a British actress known for Brianna in Outlander (2016–2026, 60 episodes), Day of the Dead: Bloodline, 211 with Nicolas Cage, Castlevania: Nocturne, and Young Sherlock season 2.

Sophie Tea

Sophie Tea (born 1993) is a British contemporary painter who sells art directly via social media, known for her Nudie female-form series, Carnaby Street and Sydney galleries, Charity Shop Friday, and the 2026 Fulham Pier installation.

Sophie Thatcher

Sophie Thatcher (born 2000, Chicago) is an American actress known as teen Natalie in Yellowjackets and for The Boogeyman, Heretic, Companion, and Refn's Her Private Hell; she also released the album Pivot & Scrape.

Sophie Thompson

Sophie Thompson (born 1962) is a British film, television, and theatre actress, sister of Emma Thompson, daughter of Eric Thompson and Phyllida Law. Won the 1999 Olivier Award for Into the Woods; known for Gosford Park, Emma, Four Weddings and a Funeral, and EastEnders' Stella Crawford.

Sophie Tucker

Sophie Tucker (Sonia Kalish, 1884-1966), American singer and comedienne of vaudeville, Broadway, and nightclubs, the "Red Hot Mama"; recorded "Some of These Days" in 1911 and "My Yiddishe Momme" in 1925.

Sophie Turner

Sophie Turner (born 1996) is an English actress known as Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones (2011–2019, Emmy-nominated), Jean Grey in X-Men films, lead of Joan and Steal, and Lara Croft in Prime Video's Tomb Raider.