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Sonya Halpern

Sonya Halpern is an American politician and businesswoman serving as a Democratic member of the Georgia State Senate from District 39, known for her music industry legislation.

Sonya Harper

Sonya Harper is an American politician serving as a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives from Chicago's South Side, chairing the Agriculture & Conservation Committee.

Sonya Huang

Sonya Huang is a General Partner at Sequoia Capital who invests in artificial intelligence, data infrastructure, and fintech, with partnerships including OpenAI, Anthropic, and LangChain.

Sonya Jehan

Sonya Jehan, born Sonia Rizvi, is a Pakistani actress of French descent. She is known for her roles in My Name Is Khan (2010) and Ho Mann Jahaan (2015).

Sonya Neal

Sonya Neal is an American cell biologist and Associate Professor at UC San Diego who studies how cells detect and destroy misfolded proteins, and received the 2025 PECASE award.

Sonya Smith

Sonya Smith (Sonya Eleonora Smith Jacquet, born 1972, Philadelphia) is a Venezuelan-American telenovela actress famous for Cara sucia, Rosangelica, and Corazón valiente, who graduated as a licensed practical nurse in 2016 and now works with elderly patients in the United States.

Sonya Thomas

Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas, South Korean-born American competitive eater of Alexandria, Virginia; 2003 IFOCE Rookie of the Year, first Nathan's women's champion (2011, 40 hot dogs), women's record 45, and over twenty world eating records.

Sonya Walger

Sonya Walger (born 1974, London) is a British actress, writer, and podcaster known for Penny Widmore in Lost and Molly Cobb in For All Mankind; author of the novels Lion (2025) and Wifehouse (2026).

SonyLIV

SonyLIV is an Indian video streaming service owned by Sony Pictures Networks India and launched in January 2013, later expanding into originals, live sports, and acquired films.

Soo Ae

Soo Ae (수애), born Park Soo-ae, is a South Korean actress of A Family (2004), Sunny (2008), and Midnight F.M. (2010), a Grand Bell and Blue Dragon Best Actress winner, now with NEXUS E&M.

Soo Locks

The Soo Locks, also called the St. Mary's Falls Ship Canal, are navigation locks at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, that lift ships between Lake Superior and Lake Huron.

Soo Young Park

Soo Young Park (박수영) is a South Korean materials scientist, a Seoul National University professor from 1995, known for switching fluorescence on and off in solids.

Soobin (singer)

Soobin (최수빈, Choi Soo-bin, born 2000, Ansan) is the leader of K-pop boy group TOMORROW X TOGETHER under Big Hit Music, debuted 2019, Music Bank MC 2020-2021, solo track Sunday Driver 2025.

Soodhu Kavvum (சூது கவ்வும்)

Soodhu Kavvum (சூது கவ்வும்) is a 2013 Tamil dark comedy, Nalan Kumarasamy's debut, starring Vijay Sethupathi as rule-bound kidnapper Das; a C.V. Kumar sleeper hit that became a benchmark of the Tamil new wave.

Soodhu Kavvum 2

Soodhu Kavvum 2 (Naatum Naatu Makkalum), 2024 Tamil crime comedy sequel to the 2013 cult film, directed by S. J. Arjun, starring Mirchi Shiva as kidnapper Guru; released 13 December 2024, U/A, panned by critics.

Soojin

Soojin (수진; birth name Seo Soo-jin) is a South Korean singer who debuted with girl group (G)I-dle in 2018 and launched a solo career with the EP Agassy in 2023.

Soojin Park

Soojin Park (박수진) is a South Korean battery materials chemist and Mueunjae Chair Professor at POSTECH, known for silicon anodes and solid-state batteries.

Sook Ching (肅清)

Sook Ching (肅清, 華僑粛正, 大検証) was the Japanese military's February–March 1942 mass screening and execution of Chinese males aged 18–50 in occupied Singapore and Malaya; death toll estimates range from 5,000 to 100,000.

Sook-Yin Lee

Sook-Yin Lee (李素英), Canadian multimedia artist born in Vancouver: MuchMusic VJ (1995–2001), CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera host, Shortbus star, director of Paying for It (2024), and musician with Bob's Your Uncle, jooj, and 72RHR.

Sook‐Bin Woo

Sook-Bin Woo is an American oral medicine specialist and oral pathologist at Harvard School of Dental Medicine and Brigham and Women's Hospital, known for her 2006 review linking bisphosphonate drugs to osteonecrosis of the jaw.

Sooke

Sooke is a district municipality on southwest Vancouver Island, British Columbia, about 40 km west of Victoria in the Capital Regional District. Named for the T'Sou-ke people, incorporated in 1999, population over 17,000 (2026 estimate), a former logging and fishing town now largely a Highway 14 commuter community.

Sookie St. James

Sookie St. James is the fictional chef from Gilmore Girls, played by Melissa McCarthy; best friend and later Dragonfly Inn co-owner of Lorelai Gilmore, married to Jackson Belleville, largely absent from the 2016 revival.

Sookie Stackhouse

Sookie Stackhouse, also called the Southern Vampire Mysteries protagonist, is Charlaine Harris's telepathic waitress heroine of Bon Temps, Louisiana, in a 13-novel series (2001–2013) adapted into HBO's True Blood with Anna Paquin.

Sookshmadarshini (സൂക്ഷ്മദർശിനി)

Sookshmadarshini (സൂക്ഷ്മദർശിനി) is a 2024 Malayalam black comedy mystery thriller directed by MC Jithin, starring Nazriya Nazim and Basil Joseph; released 22 November 2024, grossed over ₹50 crore, and streamed on Disney+ Hotstar from 11 January 2025.

Soomaa National Park

Soomaa National Park (Soomaa Rahvuspark), established 1993 in southwestern Estonia, protects 39,843 ha of bogs, floodplains and forests across five bogs, famous for its fifth-season floods covering up to 17,500 ha and the UNESCO-listed haabjas dugout canoe.

Soomra dynasty

The Soomra dynasty (سومرا), also written Sumra or Soomro, ruled Lower Sindh in present-day Pakistan from 1053 until the Sammas supplanted it in the mid-fourteenth century.

Soon-Yi Previn (프레빈 수이)

Soon-Yi Previn (프레빈 수이, birth name Oh Soon-hee), Korean-born American adopted by Mia Farrow and André Previn, married Woody Allen on December 23, 1997; two daughters, Bechet and Manzie; Drew and Columbia alumna.

Sooner Generating Station

Sooner Generating Station, also called the Sooner Power Plant, is a coal-fired power plant near Red Rock, Oklahoma, owned and operated by Oklahoma Gas and Electric since 1979.

Sooners

Sooners were settlers who entered Oklahoma's Unassigned Lands before the legal start of the 1889 Land Run, named from the "sooner clause" of the March 2, 1889 Indian Appropriation Act; later a proud Oklahoma nickname adopted by the University of Oklahoma in 1908.

Soong Ching-ling (宋庆龄)

Soong Ching-ling (宋庆龄, 1893–1981), wife of Sun Yat-sen, China Welfare Institute founder, broke with the Kuomintang, and served as PRC Co-Chairman 1968–1972 and Honorary President in 1981.