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Son Espases Roman Camp

Son Espases Roman camp: late Republican legionary camp found in 2007 under the Son Espases hospital in Palma, Mallorca; founded c. 120/110 BC, abandoned c. 50 BC, capacity at least one legion, with a Talayotic sanctuary nearby.

Son Heung-min (손흥민)

Son Heung-min (손흥민), born 1992, is a South Korean footballer who won the 2021/22 Premier League Golden Boot and captained Tottenham before joining Los Angeles FC in 2025.

Son House

Son House (Eddie James House Jr., 1902–1988) was a Delta blues singer and bottleneck-slide guitarist, recorded by Paramount in 1930 and Alan Lomax in 1941–42, rediscovered in 1964 and celebrated in the folk revival.

Son huasteco

Son huasteco, also called huapango, is a Mexican folk music-and-dance style from the Huasteca region of northeastern Mexico, performed by a trio of violin, huapanguera, and jarana.

Son Hwa-jung

Son Hwa-jung (손화중, 1861–1895) was a Korean Donghak leader and one of three principal commanders of the 1894 Donghak Peasant Movement, executed in 1895 after the rising failed.

Son jarocho

Son jarocho is a Mexican regional music, dance, and poetic tradition from southern Veracruz, named for the jarocho people, blending Spanish, African, and Indigenous elements and performed communally at fandangos.

Son Jong-won

Son Jong-won (손종원) is a South Korean chef, executive chef of Seoul's two one-Michelin-star restaurants L'Amant Secret (French) and Eatanic Garden (Korean), a Culinary Class Wars 2 contestant, and a former civil engineering student trained at the CIA, Benu, and Noma.

Son La hydroelectric plant

The Son La hydroelectric plant (Thủy điện Sơn La) is a 2,400 MW hydropower station on the Da River in northwestern Vietnam, inaugurated in 2012.

Son Lux

Son Lux is an American experimental post-rock trio formed in 2007 in New York by Ryan Lott, later joined by Rafiq Bhatia and Ian Chang; Oscar-nominated for scoring Everything Everywhere All at Once.

Son Mi Na

Son Mi Na (손미나, born 1964) is a South Korean handball goalkeeper who won Olympic silver at Los Angeles 1984 and gold at Seoul 1988, and recited the 1988 Athletes' Oath with Hur Jae.

Son Min Han

Son Min Han (손민한, born 1975), South Korean right-handed pitcher for the Lotte Giants; Olympic bronze medalist at Sydney 2000, 1996 Olympian, 103-72 KBO career record through 2009, and KPBA president at its 2009 unionization vote.

Son montuno

Son montuno is a Cuban dance-music style built on the repeating montuno section of the son, named in the 1940s and popularized by Arsenio Rodríguez's conjunto in Havana.

Son Na-eun (손나은)

Son Na-eun (손나은), born 1994 in Seoul, is a South Korean actress and former Apink member who debuted with the group in April 2011, left in 2022, and became known for The Wrath, Ghost Doctor, Agency, and the 2026 hit Agent Kim Reactivated.

Sơn Ngọc Thành

Sơn Ngọc Thành (សឺង ង៉ុកថាញ់, 1908–1977) was a Cambodian nationalist leader who co-founded the first Khmer-language newspaper, led anti-French resistance, and served twice as prime minister.

Son of a Donkey

Son of a Donkey is a 2025 Australian Netflix comedy series by Theodore and Nathan Saidden, a standalone Superwog sequel: six episodes about Theo's road rage, impounded Corolla, court-ordered therapy, and his father's kidney hunt.

Son of a Gun (film)

Son of a Gun is a 2014 Australian heist thriller, the feature debut of writer-director Julius Avery, starring Ewan McGregor as crime boss Brendan Lynch, Brenton Thwaites as protege JR, and Alicia Vikander; 108 minutes, MA15+, released October 2014.

Son of a Preacher Man

"Son of a Preacher Man" is a song written by John Hurley and Ronnie Wilkins and recorded by Dusty Springfield in 1968 for Dusty in Memphis, becoming a transatlantic Top 10 hit.

Son of a Witch

Son of a Witch (2005) by Gregory Maguire, second novel of the Wicked Years and sequel to Wicked, follows Liir, possibly Elphaba's son, through post-Wizard Oz, the Cloister of Saint Glinda, and the search for Nor in Southstairs.

Son of Batman

Son of Batman (2014) is a DC Universe Animated Original Movie, third in the DCAMU, directed by Ethan Spaulding, adapting Grant Morrison's "Batman and Son" and introducing Damian Wayne as Robin.

Son of Beast

Son of Beast was a wooden roller coaster at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, built by RCCA, operating 2000-2009. It set wooden coaster records for height (218 ft) and speed (78 mph) and was the only looping wooden coaster, but closed after 2006 and 2009 incidents and was demolished in 2012.

Son of Flubber

Son of Flubber (1963) is Disney's first theatrical feature sequel to The Absent-Minded Professor, directed by Robert Stevenson, with Fred MacMurray as Professor Brainard experimenting with dry rain and Flubbergas at Medfield College.

Son of Frankenstein

Son of Frankenstein (1939) is Universal's third Frankenstein film, directed by Rowland V. Lee, starring Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff in his last Monster role, and Bela Lugosi as Ygor; it revived the horror genre and inspired Young Frankenstein.

Son of God

Son of God is a title used across the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, Christianity, and Islam, applied to angels, Israel, kings, Jesus, and Roman emperors.

Son of God (Christianity)

Son of God (Greek ho huios tou theou) is a New Testament title for Jesus of Nazareth and, in Christian doctrine, the second person of the Trinity.

Son of God (film)

Son of God (2014) is a biblical drama starring Diogo Morgado as Jesus, produced by Mark Burnett and Roma Downey from the History Channel miniseries The Bible, released by 20th Century Fox, grossing $70.8 million worldwide.

Son of Godzilla (怪獣島の決戦 ゴジラの息子)

Son of Godzilla (怪獣島の決戦 ゴジラの息子) is Toho's 1967 kaiju film, the eighth Godzilla entry, directed by Jun Fukuda, introducing Minilla, Kamacuras, and Kumonga on Sollgel Island.

Son of man (Christianity)

Son of man is the expression Jesus uses in the Gospels more than any other as a self-reference, an Aramaic idiom for "a human being" whose meaning is debated by scholars.

Son of Paleface

Son of Paleface (1952) is a Frank Tashlin Paramount comedy western, sequel to The Paleface, starring Bob Hope as Junior Potter, Jane Russell as The Torch, and Roy Rogers, with an Oscar-nominated song.

Son of Rambow

Son of Rambow: 2007 British comedy by Garth Jennings (Hammer & Tongs) about two 1980s schoolboys making a camcorder sequel to First Blood; Sundance 2007, sold to Paramount Vantage for a reported $8 million, starring Bill Milner and Will Poulter.

Son of Safatba'al inscription

The Son of Safatba'al inscription, cataloged as KAI 9, is a lacunary royal Phoenician inscription from Byblos dated around 500 BC, whose dedicator is known only as a son of Shipitbaal.