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Sophia University (上智大学)
Sophia University (上智大学, Jochi Daigaku) is a Jesuit-founded private university in Tokyo, established 1913 from St. Francis Xavier's 1549 wish; motto "For Others, With Others"; 9 faculties, 12,419 undergraduates in 2025.
Sophia Y. Tsai
Sophia Y. Tsai is a molecular biologist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston known for discovering the COUP transcription factors, which regulate development, angiogenesis, and metabolism.
Sophia Zoungas
Sophia Zoungas is an Australian endocrinologist and clinical trialist whose diabetes trials shaped global guidelines, and Executive Director of The George Institute for Global Health Australia from 2026.
Sophiatown Renaissance
The Sophiatown Renaissance was a black cultural movement in 1940s and 1950s Johannesburg, centered on Drum magazine and destroyed by apartheid removals by the early 1960s.
Sophie (album)
Sophie is the second and final studio album by the British producer SOPHIE (Sophie Xeon), released posthumously on September 27, 2024 via Transgressive and Future Classic.
Sophie (musician)
SOPHIE (Sophie Xeon, 1986–2021) was a Scottish producer, singer, and DJ central to hyperpop; albums Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides (2018, Grammy-nominated) and the 2024 posthumous self-titled final album; died in Athens fall.
Sophie (The Bear)
"Sophie" is season 4, episode 6 of The Bear, written and directed by Christopher Storer, aired June 2025. Sydney's father has a heart attack while she weighs leaving the restaurant; Richie faces co-parenting fears.
Sophie Aldred
Sophie Aldred (born 1962, Greenwich, London) is an English actor, voice artist, and author best known as Ace, the Seventh Doctor's companion in Doctor Who (1987–1989), later on Big Finish audio and in the 2022 centenary special The Power of the Doctor, with a parallel career in children's television, voiceover, and writing.
Sophie Anderson (actress)
Sophie Anderson (1987-2023), English adult film performer and TV personality from Bristol; half of the viral Cock Destroyers duo with Rebecca More; hosted Slag Wars (2020), recorded 'Driving for Dick', advocated for LGBTQ+ and HIV causes; died at 36 two weeks after her partner Oliver Spedding.
Sophie B. Hawkins
Sophie B. Hawkins is an American singer-songwriter from New York City, known for her platinum 1992 debut Tongues and Tails and the hit "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover."
Sophie Bray
Sophie Charlotte Bray (born 1990, Grasse, France) is an English field hockey forward, Rio 2016 Olympic gold medallist with Great Britain, 2015 European champion, MBE, retired internationally in 2019, now a padel player.
Sophie Calle
Sophie Calle (born 1953, Paris) is a French conceptual artist, photographer, writer, and filmmaker known for rule-bound private games like The Sleepers, Suite Venitienne, The Hotel, and The Blind, and for representing France at the 2007 Venice Biennale.
Sophie Capewell
Sophie Capewell (born 1998) is a British track sprinter from Lichfield, based in Manchester. Olympic and world team sprint champion in 2024 with Finucane and Marchant, world record 45.186, MBE 2025, Commonwealth silver medallist.
Sophie Choudry
Sophie Choudry (Sophia), British-Indian singer, actress, VJ, and host born 1982 in Manchester; known for Hindi pop remixes Ek Pardesi and Mera Babu Chhail Chhabila, MTV India VJ work, Bollywood film appearances, and the fitness show Famously Fit with Sophie.
Sophie Christiansen
Sophie Christiansen (Sophie Margaret Christiansen, born 1987) is a British para-equestrian dressage rider from Ascot, Berkshire, who won 8 golds across four Paralympics from 2004 to 2016.
Sophie Cookson
Sophie Cookson (born 1990) is an English actress known as Roxy in Kingsman: The Secret Service and The Golden Circle, the title role in BBC's The Trial of Christine Keeler, and roles in Red Joan, Infinite, and This Time Next Year.
Sophie Cunningham
Sophie Cunningham (born 1996) is an American WNBA guard, Missouri's all-time scoring leader, drafted 13th overall by Phoenix in 2019, traded to the Indiana Fever in 2025; known for three-point shooting and polarizing comments on transgender athletes.
Sophie D. Fosså
Sophie D. Fosså (born 1941) is a Norwegian oncologist and professor emerita at Oslo University Hospital known for prostate and testicular cancer research and late-effects studies.
Sophie Dahl
Sophie Dahl (born 1977, London) is an English author and former model, granddaughter of Roald Dahl; known for Miss Dahl's Voluptuous Delights, the BBC2 series The Delicious Miss Dahl, and the Madame Badobedah children's books.
Sophie Duker
Sophie Duker (born 1990) is an English stand-up comedian, writer, and actor, winner of Taskmaster series 13 (2022). Known for Edinburgh shows Venus, Hag, and Hot Beef Injection, and for hosting the Wacky Racists comedy club.
Sophie Edington
Sophie Edington (Sophia Jane Edington, born 1984) is an Australian backstroke swimmer, 2008 Beijing Olympian, four-time Commonwealth Games gold medalist, and former 50 m backstroke world record holder (27.67, 2008).
Sophie Elgort
Sophie Elgort, New York photographer, director, and TV host, daughter of Arthur Elgort and sister of Ansel Elgort; founder of ClickHouse and host/executive producer of the Emmy-nominated PBS/ALL ARTS series Portrait Mode.
Sophie Eliott Lynn
Sophia Eliott Lynn, also Sophie Eliott-Lynn and Lady Mary Heath (1896–1939), Irish-born athlete and aviator: women's high jump world record holder (1.485 m, 1923), WAAA javelin champion, Britain's first woman commercial pilot, and first woman to fly solo from South Africa to England.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Sophie Ellis-Bextor (Sophie Michelle Ellis-Bextor, born 1979) is an English singer-songwriter, formerly of theaudience, famous for Spiller's "Groovejet" and "Murder on the Dancefloor", revived by Saltburn in 2024.
Sophie Elmhirst
Sophie Elmhirst is a British journalist and author writing for the Guardian Long Read and The Economist. Winner of the 2020 Feature Writer of the Year award, her first book Maurice and Maralyn, also titled A Marriage at Sea, won the 2024 Nero Gold Prize.
Sophie Fiennes
Sophie Fiennes (born 1967) is an English documentary director known for the Slavoj Žižek Pervert's Guide trilogy and portraits of Anselm Kiefer and Grace Jones.
Sophie Flay
Sophie Flay (born 1996) is an American broadcast journalist, daughter of chef Bobby Flay, co-anchoring ABC's World News Now and GMA First Look since 2025 after ABC7 Los Angeles reporting and Food Network shows The Flay List and Bobby and Sophie on the Coast.
Sophie Germain
Sophie Germain, born Marie-Sophie Germain, was a self-taught French mathematician who proved the first general results toward Fermat's Last Theorem and won the Paris Academy's 1816 grand prize.
Sophie Gilbert
Sophie Gilbert is a London-born staff writer at The Atlantic (since 2014), 2022 Pulitzer Criticism finalist, 2024 National Magazine Award winner, and author of Girl on Girl (2025) on pop culture and women.
Sophie Gradon
Sophie Gradon (Sophie Hannah Gradon, 1985–2018) was an English model, Miss Great Britain 2009 and Love Island series 2 (2016) contestant, part of the show's first same-sex couple with Katie Salmon; she died aged 32 in Ponteland.