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Sophie von La Roche
Sophie von La Roche, born Marie Sophie Gutermann (1730–1807), was a German novelist whose 1771 Sternheim made her the first German woman to publish a novel.
Sophie von Weiler
Sophie von Weiler (Pauline Sophie von Weiler-Le Poole, born 1958) is a Dutch field hockey forward, Olympic gold medalist 1984 and bronze medalist 1988, nicknamed the Maradona of women's hockey after the 1986 World Cup.
Sophie Wallace
Sophie Wallace, also known as Sophia Wallace, is an Australian anesthesiology researcher who manages the clinical trials program at The Alfred and Monash University in Melbourne, including the RELIEF trial.
Sophie Ward
Sophie Ward (Sophie Anna Ward) is an English actress and writer, daughter of Simon Ward, and author of the Booker Prize-longlisted novel Love and Other Thought Experiments.
Sophie Wells
Sophie Wells, born 1990, is a British Grade V para-equestrian dressage rider, MBE and OBE, with Paralympic medals at London 2012, Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020, and Paris 2024, including three team golds, plus world and European championship titles.
Sophie Wilde
Sophie Wilde, Ivorian-Australian actor from Sydney and NIDA 2019 graduate, broke out as Mia in A24's Talk to Me. AACTA winner, BAFTA Rising Star nominee, Chopard Trophy 2024; stars in Digger with Tom Cruise.
Sophie Willan
Sophie Willan, English actor, writer and stand-up comedian from Bolton, creator and star of BBC Two's Alma's Not Normal; triple BAFTA winner, first Caroline Aherne Bursary recipient, founder of Stories of Care.
Sophie Wilmès
Sophie Wilmès is a Belgian politician of the Reformist Movement who has served as a Member of the European Parliament and a Vice-President of the Parliament since 2024.
Sophie Wilson
Sophie Wilson, also known as Sophie Mary Wilson, is a British computer scientist who designed the ARM instruction set and co-designed the BBC Micro with Steve Furber.
Sophie Winkleman
Sophie Winkleman, Lady Frederick Windsor (born 1980), English actress known as Big Suze in Peep Show, Zoey in Two and a Half Men, and the Countess in Wonka; half-sister of Claudia Winkleman and wife of Lord Frederick Windsor.
Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh
Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh (Sophie Helen Rhys-Jones, born 1965) is a working British royal, wife of Prince Edward, formerly Countess of Wessex, patron of over 70 charities and first royal to visit Ukraine after the 2022 invasion.
Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg
Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (Countess Sophie Chotek, 1868–1914), Bohemian-born wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand through a morganatic 1900 marriage that excluded her children from the Habsburg throne; assassinated with him in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.
Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein
Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein (née Duchess Sophie in Bavaria, born 1967 in Munich), wife of Hereditary Prince Alois, mother of four including Joseph Wenzel, and president of the Sophie von Liechtenstein Foundation for Woman and Child.
Sophie, Princess of Prussia
Sophie, Princess of Prussia (Sophie Dorothea Ulrike Alice, 1870-1932), Hohenzollern princess, wife of Constantine I and Queen consort of the Hellenes 1913-1917 and 1920-1922; distinct from Dutch and other Sophies of Prussia.
Sophie's Choice (film)
Sophie's Choice (1982), Alan J. Pakula's adaptation of William Styron's novel, stars Meryl Streep as Holocaust survivor Sophie Zawistowska opposite Kevin Kline and Peter MacNicol; Streep won the Best Actress Oscar.
Sophie's Choice (novel)
Sophie's Choice (novel), by William Styron, published June 11, 1979: a Brooklyn-set story of Stingo, Polish Catholic Auschwitz survivor Sophie, and Nathan, centered on her forced choice between her children; winner of the first American Book Award and a source of lasting controversy.
Sophie's Revenge (非常完美)
Sophie's Revenge (非常完美) is a 2009 Chinese-Korean romantic comedy, Eva Jin's directorial debut, produced by and starring Zhang Ziyi with Fan Bingbing and So Ji-sub; it earned about 100 million RMB and launched China's chick-flick genre.
Sophie's World
Sophie's World (Sofies verden) is a 1991 novel by the Norwegian writer Jostein Gaarder that weaves a history of Western philosophy into a mystery story.
Sophien Kamoun
Sophien Kamoun is a Tunisian-born plant pathologist and Royal Society fellow at the University of East Anglia who studies potato blight and wheat blast to develop disease-resistant crops.
Sophist
A sophist (Greek: sophistēs) was a paid traveling teacher in fifth- and fourth-century BCE Greece who taught rhetoric and virtue, with Protagoras, Gorgias, and Hippias the most famous.
Sophocles (Mercurian crater)
Sophocles is a 150-km-diameter IAU-approved impact crater on Mercury (Feature ID 5650), centered at 7.00° S, 145.70° W near the equator, named for the ancient Greek playwright Sophocles.
Sophocles (Σοφοκλῆς)
Sophocles (Σοφοκλῆς, c. 496–406 BCE), Athenian tragic poet of Colonus, second of the great three tragedians; wrote about 120 plays, added the third actor, raised the chorus to 15, won about 24 first prizes, and left seven complete tragedies including Oedipus Tyrannus and Antigone.
Sophomore
Sophomore: the American term for a second-year student in high school (10th grade) or college. First recorded in the 1680s from sophumer/sophism; the 'wise fool' Greek etymology is folk etymology. Related to class-year credit thresholds and the debated sophomore slump.
Sophon Saram
Sophon Saram, born in 1959, is a Thai Bhumjaithai politician and longtime Buriram MP who has served as Speaker of the House of Representatives since March 2026.
Sophonisba
Sophonisba, also written Sophonisbe, was a Carthaginian noblewoman of the Second Punic War who married Numidia's King Syphax and took poison in 203 BC rather than face Roman captivity.
Sophora
Sophora (necklacepod) is a genus of 64 accepted legume species (Fabaceae) with pinnate leaves and moniliform pods, cosmopolitan from Asia to the Pacific, originating ca. 31 Mya in Central Asia, rich in quinolizidine alkaloids.
Sophora flavescens
Sophora flavescens (Kushen, 苦参), shrubby sophora or bitter ginseng, is a Fabaceae subshrub native from Siberia to temperate East Asia whose alkaloid- and flavonoid-rich root is a major traditional Chinese medicine.
Sophoridine hydrochloride
Sophoridine hydrochloride (盐酸槐定碱) is a quinolizidine alkaloid isolated from Sophora alopecuroides, approved in China in 2005 as an injectable anticancer drug for gastric, lung, and liver cancers.
Sophos
Sophos Limited is a British cybersecurity company headquartered in Oxford, England. Founded in 1985, it sells endpoint, network, and cloud security and managed detection and response services.
Sophronios I
Sophronios I was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, dated 1463 to 1464 on the Patriarchate's official list; historian Dan Ioan Mureșan identifies him with the cleric Sylvester Syropoulos.