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Sophronios II
Sophronios II was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1774 to 1780, between Samuel I and Gabriel IV, having earlier been Patriarch of Jerusalem as Sophronios V.
Sophronios III
Sophronios III (Σωφρόνιος Γ΄), later Sophronius IV, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1863 to 1866 and then Patriarch of Alexandria from 1870 until his death in 1899.
Sophronius of Vratsa
Sophronius of Vratsa (Софроний Врачански), born Stoyko Vladislavov, was a Bulgarian bishop, writer, and National Revival figure who printed the first book in modern Bulgarian in 1806.
Sophrosyne (σωφροσύνη)
Sophrosyne (σωφροσύνη, sōphrosýnē), the ancient Greek virtue of soundness of mind, self-control, and moderation; treated in Plato's Charmides and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, later narrowed to chastity in Christian asceticism.
Sophus Claussen
Sophus Claussen (1865–1931) was a Danish poet and a leading figure of Danish symbolism, attacked for frivolity in his lifetime and later hailed as a bridge between romanticism and modernism.
Sophus Lie
Sophus Lie (1842–1899) was a Norwegian mathematician who founded the theory of continuous transformation groups, now known as Lie groups and Lie algebras, and held chairs at Christiania and Leipzig.
Sophus Mads Jørgensen
Sophus Mads Jørgensen (1837–1914) was a Danish chemist at the University of Copenhagen whose careful experiments on cobalt and chromium complexes supplied the experimental foundation for Alfred Werner's coordination theory.
Sophy Ridge
Sophy Ridge is an English broadcast journalist and Sky News's lead politics presenter. She is known for hosting Sophy Ridge on Sunday and Mornings with Ridge & Frost.
Sopita Tanasan
Sopita Tanasan (โสภิตา ธนสาร), Thai weightlifter born 1994; 2016 Rio Olympic champion in women's 48kg (200kg total) and 2017 Anaheim world champion at 53kg (210kg).
Sopka-2
Sopka-2 (Могильник Сопка-2) is a large multi-period Bronze Age to medieval cemetery in the Baraba forest-steppe, Novosibirsk Region, Russia, excavated by V.I. Molodin; key for Krotovo, Odino, and Seima-Turbino studies.
Soplica
Soplica, also known as Soplica vodka, is a Polish brand of vodka and fruit liqueurs established in 1891, best known for flavored nalewka-style liqueurs like cherry, hazelnut, and plum.
SOPMOD
SOPMOD, or Special Operations Peculiar Modification, is a US Special Operations Command program of modular accessory kits that let special operations forces reconfigure weapons, mainly the M4A1 carbine.
Sopot International Song Festival
Sopot International Song Festival (Międzynarodowy Festiwal Piosenki w Sopocie): annual international song contest at Sopot's Forest Opera since 1961, initiated by Władysław Szpilman; the Eastern bloc's Eurovision counterpart, later Top of the Top Sopot Festival, interrupted 1981–1983.
Soprano
Soprano, the highest standard singing voice type above mezzo-soprano, defined by tessitura rather than range; Fach subtypes (coloratura, lyric, dramatic) arose in 19th-century Germany; extreme soprano range reaches 1000–1600 Hz.
Soprano Home Movies
Soprano Home Movies (also "Sopranos Home Movies") is The Sopranos season 6 episode 13, aired April 8, 2007: a lake-house birthday weekend ends in a Monopoly fight and Bobby Baccalieri's first hit.
Soprano saxophone
The soprano saxophone, also called soprano sax, is the smallest and highest-pitched common saxophone, a B♭ instrument often straight in shape, known for jazz roles from Sidney Bechet to John Coltrane.
Sopron Botanical Garden
Sopron Botanical Garden (Soproni Botanikus Kert, Egyetemi Élő Növénygyűjtemény) is the University of Sopron's 17.2-hectare protected forest botanical garden, founded 1923 after the Selmecbánya academy moved, with a famous evergreen collection.
Sopwith Camel
Sopwith Camel (Sopwith F.1): British single-seat WWI biplane fighter, successor to the Sopwith Pup, first flown December 1916; credited 1,294 victories, more than any other Allied fighter, with about 5,490 built.
Sopwith Snipe
The Sopwith Snipe (Sopwith 7F.1) was a British single-seat biplane fighter designed as a successor to the Sopwith Camel, entering service in 1918 and serving as the Royal Air Force's standard fighter until the mid-1920s.
Sopwith Triplane
The Sopwith Triplane, nicknamed the Tripehound, was a British First World War single-seat fighter flown almost exclusively by the Royal Naval Air Service from late 1916 through 1917.
Sopyonje
Sopyonje (서편제, Seopyeonje), 1993 South Korean musical drama by Im Kwon-taek, adapted from Yi Cheong-jun's novel about a pansori family; first Korean film to top one million Seoul admissions and trigger a national pansori revival.
Sor Juana (Mercurian crater)
Sor Juana crater, Mercurian impact crater, 102 km wide at 50.51N 25.59W, named 1979 for Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695), Mexican nun-poet; MESSENGER images show impact melt and Hokusai rays.
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize
The Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize (Premio de Literatura Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz) is an annual prize for women novelists writing in Spanish.
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, or the Traps of Faith
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, or the Traps of Faith is a 1982 essay by Octavio Paz on the Mexican nun and poet Juana Inés de la Cruz.
Sora (app)
Sora was a TikTok-style social video app from OpenAI that let users generate, share, and remix short AI videos, launched on iOS in September 2025.
Sora (Italy)
Sora (Italy): town in the province of Frosinone, Lazio, on the Liri river; ancient Volscian city, Roman Latin colony from 303 BC, medieval county and Boncompagni duchy, birthplace of Vittorio De Sica and Cardinal Baronio.
Sora (Kingdom Hearts)
Sora (ソラ) is the spiky-haired Keyblade-wielding protagonist of Square Enix and Disney's Kingdom Hearts series, introduced in 2002, voiced by Miyu Irino and Haley Joel Osment, a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fighter, and star of Kingdom Hearts IV (late 2027).
Sora (text-to-video model)
Sora, also known as Sora AI, is a text-to-video generative AI model developed by OpenAI and announced in February 2024 that creates videos up to one minute long from written prompts.
Sora 2
Sora 2 is OpenAI's text-to-video and image-to-video generation model with synchronized audio, released on September 30, 2025 as the successor to its 2024 model Sora.
Sora Amamiya (雨宮天)
Sora Amamiya (雨宮天) is a Japanese voice actress and singer from Tokyo, born 1993, with Music Ray'n, TrySail member, voice of Aqua, Elizabeth, Chizuru Mizuhara; solo debut 2014 with Skyreach.