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Sophie Scholl – The Final Days
Sophie Scholl – The Final Days (Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage) is a 2005 German drama by Marc Rothemund starring Julia Jentsch, dramatizing the White Rose member's arrest, Gestapo interrogation, trial, and 1943 execution; Oscar-nominated, with two Silver Bears.
Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott is a British cognitive neuroscientist, Professor and Director of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, known for research on speech and laughter and for presenting the 2017 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.
Sophie Simmons
Sophie Simmons (Sophie Tweed-Simmons), born 1992, American pop singer-songwriter, daughter of KISS's Gene Simmons and Shannon Tweed; independent artist behind "Black Mirror" and songwriter for NewJeans, Leah Kate, and others.
Sophie Skelton
Sophie Skelton (Sophie Alexandra Skelton, born 1994, Woodford, Cheshire) is a British actress known for Brianna in Outlander (2016–2026, 60 episodes), Day of the Dead: Bloodline, 211 with Nicolas Cage, Castlevania: Nocturne, and Young Sherlock season 2.
Sophie Tea
Sophie Tea (born 1993) is a British contemporary painter who sells art directly via social media, known for her Nudie female-form series, Carnaby Street and Sydney galleries, Charity Shop Friday, and the 2026 Fulham Pier installation.
Sophie Thatcher
Sophie Thatcher (born 2000, Chicago) is an American actress known as teen Natalie in Yellowjackets and for The Boogeyman, Heretic, Companion, and Refn's Her Private Hell; she also released the album Pivot & Scrape.
Sophie Thompson
Sophie Thompson (born 1962) is a British film, television, and theatre actress, sister of Emma Thompson, daughter of Eric Thompson and Phyllida Law. Won the 1999 Olivier Award for Into the Woods; known for Gosford Park, Emma, Four Weddings and a Funeral, and EastEnders' Stella Crawford.
Sophie Tucker
Sophie Tucker (Sonia Kalish, 1884-1966), American singer and comedienne of vaudeville, Broadway, and nightclubs, the "Red Hot Mama"; recorded "Some of These Days" in 1911 and "My Yiddishe Momme" in 1925.
Sophie Turner
Sophie Turner (born 1996) is an English actress known as Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones (2011–2019, Emmy-nominated), Jean Grey in X-Men films, lead of Joan and Steal, and Lara Croft in Prime Video's Tomb Raider.
Sophie von La Roche
Sophie von La Roche, born Marie Sophie Gutermann (1730–1807), was a German novelist whose 1771 Sternheim made her the first German woman to publish a novel.
Sophie von Weiler
Sophie von Weiler (Pauline Sophie von Weiler-Le Poole, born 1958) is a Dutch field hockey forward, Olympic gold medalist 1984 and bronze medalist 1988, nicknamed the Maradona of women's hockey after the 1986 World Cup.
Sophie Wallace
Sophie Wallace, also known as Sophia Wallace, is an Australian anesthesiology researcher who manages the clinical trials program at The Alfred and Monash University in Melbourne, including the RELIEF trial.
Sophie Ward
Sophie Ward (Sophie Anna Ward) is an English actress and writer, daughter of Simon Ward, and author of the Booker Prize-longlisted novel Love and Other Thought Experiments.
Sophie Wells
Sophie Wells, born 1990, is a British Grade V para-equestrian dressage rider, MBE and OBE, with Paralympic medals at London 2012, Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020, and Paris 2024, including three team golds, plus world and European championship titles.
Sophie Wilde
Sophie Wilde, Ivorian-Australian actor from Sydney and NIDA 2019 graduate, broke out as Mia in A24's Talk to Me. AACTA winner, BAFTA Rising Star nominee, Chopard Trophy 2024; stars in Digger with Tom Cruise.
Sophie Willan
Sophie Willan, English actor, writer and stand-up comedian from Bolton, creator and star of BBC Two's Alma's Not Normal; triple BAFTA winner, first Caroline Aherne Bursary recipient, founder of Stories of Care.
Sophie Wilmès
Sophie Wilmès is a Belgian politician of the Reformist Movement who has served as a Member of the European Parliament and a Vice-President of the Parliament since 2024.
Sophie Wilson
Sophie Wilson, also known as Sophie Mary Wilson, is a British computer scientist who designed the ARM instruction set and co-designed the BBC Micro with Steve Furber.
Sophie Winkleman
Sophie Winkleman, Lady Frederick Windsor (born 1980), English actress known as Big Suze in Peep Show, Zoey in Two and a Half Men, and the Countess in Wonka; half-sister of Claudia Winkleman and wife of Lord Frederick Windsor.
Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh
Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh (Sophie Helen Rhys-Jones, born 1965) is a working British royal, wife of Prince Edward, formerly Countess of Wessex, patron of over 70 charities and first royal to visit Ukraine after the 2022 invasion.
Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg
Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (Countess Sophie Chotek, 1868–1914), Bohemian-born wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand through a morganatic 1900 marriage that excluded her children from the Habsburg throne; assassinated with him in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.
Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein
Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein (née Duchess Sophie in Bavaria, born 1967 in Munich), wife of Hereditary Prince Alois, mother of four including Joseph Wenzel, and president of the Sophie von Liechtenstein Foundation for Woman and Child.
Sophie, Princess of Prussia
Sophie, Princess of Prussia (Sophie Dorothea Ulrike Alice, 1870-1932), Hohenzollern princess, wife of Constantine I and Queen consort of the Hellenes 1913-1917 and 1920-1922; distinct from Dutch and other Sophies of Prussia.
Sophie's Choice (film)
Sophie's Choice (1982), Alan J. Pakula's adaptation of William Styron's novel, stars Meryl Streep as Holocaust survivor Sophie Zawistowska opposite Kevin Kline and Peter MacNicol; Streep won the Best Actress Oscar.
Sophie's Choice (novel)
Sophie's Choice (novel), by William Styron, published June 11, 1979: a Brooklyn-set story of Stingo, Polish Catholic Auschwitz survivor Sophie, and Nathan, centered on her forced choice between her children; winner of the first American Book Award and a source of lasting controversy.
Sophie's Revenge (非常完美)
Sophie's Revenge (非常完美) is a 2009 Chinese-Korean romantic comedy, Eva Jin's directorial debut, produced by and starring Zhang Ziyi with Fan Bingbing and So Ji-sub; it earned about 100 million RMB and launched China's chick-flick genre.
Sophie's World
Sophie's World (Sofies verden) is a 1991 novel by the Norwegian writer Jostein Gaarder that weaves a history of Western philosophy into a mystery story.
Sophien Kamoun
Sophien Kamoun is a Tunisian-born plant pathologist and Royal Society fellow at the University of East Anglia who studies potato blight and wheat blast to develop disease-resistant crops.
Sophist
A sophist (Greek: sophistēs) was a paid traveling teacher in fifth- and fourth-century BCE Greece who taught rhetoric and virtue, with Protagoras, Gorgias, and Hippias the most famous.
Sophocles (Mercurian crater)
Sophocles is a 150-km-diameter IAU-approved impact crater on Mercury (Feature ID 5650), centered at 7.00° S, 145.70° W near the equator, named for the ancient Greek playwright Sophocles.