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Soong Mei-ling
Soong Mei-ling (宋美龄) was a Chinese political figure, wife of Chiang Kai-shek and First Lady of the Republic of China, known for negotiating his release in the 1936 Xi'an Incident.
Soong sisters
The Soong sisters (宋氏三姐妹): Soong Ai-ling, Soong Ching-ling, and Soong May-ling, Shanghai-born sisters who married H.H. Kung, Sun Yat-sen, and Chiang Kai-shek and shaped twentieth-century Chinese politics.
Sooraj Barjatya (सूरज आर. बडजात्या)
Sooraj R. Barjatya (सूरज आर. बडजात्या), Indian director-producer and chairman of Rajshri Productions; directed Maine Pyar Kiya (1989), Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! (1994, over 7 crore tickets), and Uunchai (2022), winning the National Film Award for Best Direction.
Soorarai Pottru
Soorarai Pottru (சூரரைப் போற்று), a 2020 Tamil drama by Sudha Kongara starring Suriya, loosely based on Air Deccan founder G. R. Gopinath's Simply Fly; released on Amazon Prime Video, winner of five National Film Awards including Best Feature Film.
Soorma (film)
Soorma (सूरमा) is a 2018 Hindi biographical sports drama directed by Shaad Ali about hockey captain Sandeep Singh's comeback after a 2006 accidental shooting; starring Diljit Dosanjh, Taapsee Pannu, Angad Bedi; released 13 July 2018.
Sooryavansham
Sooryavansham (सूर्यवंशम), 1999 Hindi family drama directed by E.V.V. Satyanarayana, a remake of Tamil Suryavamsam, starring Amitabh Bachchan in a dual role as Thakur Bhanu Pratap Singh and his son Heera, with Soundarya; famous for repeated Sony Max telecasts.
Sooryavanshi (सूर्यवंशी)
Sooryavanshi (सूर्यवंशी) is a 2021 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Rohit Shetty, starring Akshay Kumar as a police officer stopping a terrorist attack on Mumbai.
Soot
Soot is a particulate carbon material formed as an unwanted by-product of incomplete combustion or pyrolysis, containing tars, resins, and inorganic solids; it differs from manufactured carbon black.
Soothravakyam
Soothravakyam (സൂത്രവാക്യം, "formula") is a 2025 Malayalam mystery thriller directed by debutant Eugien Jos Chirammel, starring Shine Tom Chacko as a police inspector who tutors students, released 11 July 2025 by CinemaBandi.
Sooty
Sooty is a mute yellow British glove-puppet bear created by Harry Corbett, bought on Blackpool North Pier on 19 July 1948 for seven shillings and sixpence; with Sweep and Soo, he fronts the world's longest-running children's TV programme, now led by Richard Cadell.
Sooty blotch and flyspeck
Sooty blotch and flyspeck (SBFS), caused by Gloeodes pomigena, Schizothyrium pomi, and over 100 related fungi, are superficial summer blemish diseases of apple and pear fruit that cut fresh-market value but cause no rot.
Sooty mold
Sooty mold, also called sooty mould, is a group of over 200 saprophytic Ascomycete fungi (Capnodiales, Dothideomycetes; Eurotiomycetes) that grow black coatings on insect honeydew on plants, reducing photosynthesis; managed by controlling honeydew insects and washing plants.
Sopaipilla
Sopaipilla, also sopapilla, sopaipa, torta frita, or cachanga: a deep-fried flour pastry of Spanish-heritage America. Arrived with colonizers around 1700; central Chile adds pumpkin, sopaipillas pasadas soak fried rounds in chancaca syrup; New Mexico serves honey-drizzled or stuffed sopapillas.
Sopāka
Sopāka (सोपाक) is an arahant monk and disciple of the Buddha in the Theravada tradition, remembered for being ordained and awakened while still a child of seven.
Sopan
Sopan (सोपान), also called Sopandev or Sopanadeva, was a Marathi saint-poet of the Nath and Varkari traditions and the younger brother of Dnyaneshwar, dying in 1296–97 at Saswad near Pune.
Sopatma
Sopatma (Sopattinam), an ancient port of trade on India's Coromandel Coast named in Periplus chapter 60 alongside Kamara and Poduke; location debated between Madras, Marakkanam, Vayalur, and Mamallapuram; distinct from west-coast Sopara.
Sopdet Tesserae
Sopdet Tesserae: IAU-named tessera terrain on Venus, 500 km wide, centered 45S 243E, approved 1997; named for the Egyptian goddess of Sirius; deformed, likely ancient crust.
Sope Dirisu
Sọpẹ́ Dìrísù (born 1991) is a British-Nigerian actor, lead of Gangs of London's Elliot Finch and star of His House. He won the 2025 Gotham Award for My Father's Shadow, which took the Caméra d'Or at Cannes.
Sophal Ear
Sophal Ear, born 1975, is a Cambodian-American political scientist at Arizona State University's Thunderbird School who studies foreign aid and governance, and who survived the Khmer Rouge as an infant.
Sophat
Sophat is a 1938 novel by the Cambodian writer Rim Kin, generally regarded as the first Khmer novel and the first creative work in Khmer prose.
Sopheap Pich
Sopheap Pich, born in Battambang, Cambodia, in 1971, is a Cambodian sculptor known for large open-weave bamboo and rattan sculptures, shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Venice Biennale.
Sophene (historical province)
Sophene (Σωφηνή, Armenian Copʿkʿ), ancient kingdom in western Armenia near Elazığ, ruled by an Orontid branch (Samos, Arsames, Xerxes, Zariadres), independent 189 BCE, annexed by Tigranes II in 95 BCE.
Sophia (Gnosticism)
Sophia (Greek Σοφία, "wisdom") is the figure in second-century Gnostic myth whose fall produces the Demiurge Ialdabaoth, creator of the material world, and whose restoration completes the story.
Sophia (robot)
Sophia is a humanoid social robot developed by Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics, activated in 2016 and the first robot granted citizenship by a state, Saudi Arabia, in 2017.
Sophia (wisdom)
Sophia (σοφία) is the Greek word for wisdom; in Aristotle it names theoretical wisdom, nous plus epistēmē, contrasted with practical phronēsis, and in Jewish-Christian tradition the personified Divine Wisdom (Hochmah, Hagia Sophia).
Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia
Sophia Alekseyevna (Софья Алексеевна) was a Russian tsarevna and regent who ruled Russia from 1682 to 1689. She served her younger brothers, Ivan V and Peter I.
Sophia Amoruso
Sophia Amoruso is an American entrepreneur who founded the online fashion retailer Nasty Gal in 2006, built it past $100 million in sales, and wrote #GIRLBOSS.
Sophia Anne Caruso
Sophia Anne Caruso (born 2001, Spokane, Washington) is an American actress and singer known for originating Lydia Deetz in Broadway's Beetlejuice, her Broadway debut in Blackbird, Lazarus, The School for Good and Evil, and One Piece's Miss Goldenweek.
Sophia Bush
Sophia Bush (born 1982, Pasadena) is an American actress and activist, best known as Brooke Davis on One Tree Hill, Detective Erin Lindsay on Chicago P.D., and for I am a voter, Union Heritage Ventures, and her podcast Work in Progress.
Sophia Chitlik
Sophia Chitlik is an American Democratic politician who has represented District 22, covering most of Durham County, in the North Carolina State Senate since her 2024 election.