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Søren Torpegaard Lund
Søren Torpegaard Lund (born 1998) is a Danish musical theatre performer and pop songwriter, known for Før Vi Går Hjem. Youngest ever accepted to the Danish National School of Performing Arts; won Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2026 and finished 7th for Denmark at Eurovision 2026 in Vienna.
Søren Ulrik Thomsen
Søren Ulrik Thomsen, born 1956 in Kalundborg, is a Danish poet who debuted with City Slang in 1981 and is a major figure in Danish literature.
Sorena (robot)
Sorena (سورنا, also romanized Surena) is a series of adult-size humanoid robots developed at the University of Tehran's Center of Advanced Systems and Technologies in Iran since 2008.
Sorenson Ventures
Sorenson Ventures is the early-stage venture arm of Utah's Sorenson Capital, founded in 2017 by Ken Elefant and Rob Rueckert to back enterprise software and security startups.
Sorex
Sorex (red-toothed shrews, long-tailed shrews) is a Holarctic genus of about 60 Soricidae shrew species named by Linnaeus in 1758, known for Dehnel's phenomenon, the diving American water shrew, and debated venomous saliva.
Sorgavaasal (சொர்க்கவாசல்)
Sorgavaasal (சொர்க்கவாசல்), also translated as Heaven's Gate, is a 2024 Tamil prison drama directed by debutant Sidharth Vishwanath, starring RJ Balaji as Parthi, set in 1999 and inspired by the Madras Central Prison riots.
Sorghaghtani Beki
Sorghaghtani Beki (Сорхогтан бэхи) was a Kerait princess who married Tolui, son of Genghis Khan, and secured her son Möngke's election as Great Khan in 1251.
Sorghum bicolor
Sorghum bicolor, commonly called sorghum or jowar, is a drought-tolerant cereal grass grown for grain, forage, and syrup, and the world's fifth most important cereal crop.
Sorghum halepense
Sorghum halepense (Johnsongrass) is a perennial rhizomatous Poaceae grass, a S. bicolor x S. propinquum hybrid polyploid, native from Macaronesia to Indo-China and one of the world's worst agricultural weeds, with up to 28,000 seeds per plant and herbicide-resistant biotypes.
Sorikmarapi
Sorikmarapi (Sorik Marapi), 2,145 m stratovolcano in Mandailing Natal, North Sumatra, Indonesia; 600-m summit crater lake, sulfur deposits, phreatic eruptions 1829-1986, 2026 unrest, and a 240 MW geothermal project.
Sorin Babii
Sorin Babii, Romanian pistol shooter born 1963 in Arad; 1988 Seoul Olympic gold in 50 m free pistol (660, OR) and 1992 Barcelona bronze in air pistol; later coached Alin Moldoveanu.
Sorin Grindeanu
Sorin Grindeanu is a Romanian Social Democratic Party politician, President of the Chamber of Deputies since 2025 and party leader, who briefly served as Prime Minister in 2017.
Sorin Popa
Sorin Popa, born 1953 in Bucharest, Romania, is a Romanian-American mathematician and UCLA professor known for foundational tools in subfactor theory and for deformation-rigidity theory, winning the 2009 Ostrowski Prize.
Sorites paradox
Sorites paradox (paradox of the heap), from Greek soros, heap; attributed to Eubulides of Miletus. Chain reasoning over vague predicates like 'heap' concludes no grains make a heap; responses include epistemicism, supervaluationism, and degree theories.
Sorivudine
Sorivudine, also known as BV-araU or Bravavir, is an antiviral drug for herpes zoster that was withdrawn after fatal interactions with 5-fluorouracil chemotherapy in Japan in 1993.
Sørkapp
Sørkapp is the southern cape of Spitsbergen, standing on the island Sørkappøya off Sørkapp Land; it is also a Ramsar site and 1973 bird reserve.
Sørkapp Land
Sørkapp Land is the southernmost peninsula of Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway, about 1,300–1,400 km², joined to the rest of the island by a glacier isthmus that narrowed from 28 km (1899–1900) to about 5–6 km, possibly making it an island by 2030–2035; Sørkapp point lies on Sørkappøya at 76°28'N 16°36'E.
Sorley MacLean
Sorley MacLean (Somhairle MacGill-Eain, 1911–1996) was a Scottish Gaelic poet from Raasay, best known for 'An Cuillithionn' and 'Dàin do Eimhir', considered the greatest Gaelic poet of the twentieth century.
Sorn (singer)
Sorn (Chonnasorn Sajakul, ชลนสร), Thai pop singer; won K-Pop Star Hunt 2011, debuted in CLC under Cube Entertainment 2015, solo English-pop artist with WILD since 2021, EP HEARTSTORM 2024.
Soroban
The soroban (そろばん) is the Japanese abacus, a frame of vertical rods with one heaven bead and four earth beads per rod, derived from the Chinese suanpan.
Sorocaba
Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil; sorocabano; major interior industrial city, "Manchester Paulista", founded 1654; 723,682 census 2022, IDHM 0.798, seat of its metropolitan region.
Sorochinsko-Nikolskoye Oil Field
Sorochinsko-Nikolskoye Oil Field (Сорочинско-Никольское месторождение) is an onshore oil field in Orenburg Oblast, Russia, north of Sorochinsk, operated by Rosneft's Orenburgneft and producing commercially since 1967.
Sorokyns'kyi Rayon
Sorokyns'kyi Rayon (Сорокинський район), also Krasnodon Raion, was a district of Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Krasnodon/Sorokyne; formed 1923, renamed 1936, abolished in the 2020 reform.
Soron
Soron (少論, 소론) was a political faction of late Joseon Korea, formed in 1680 when the younger Westerners split from the old-guard Noron over punishing the merit elites.
Soroosh Oil Field
The Soroosh Oil Field (Persian: میدان نفتی سروش, formerly named Cyrus) is an offshore oil field about 85 km southwest of Kharg Island in Iran's Bushehr province, holding heavy crude.
Soroosh Sorooshian
Soroosh Sorooshian is a hydrometeorologist, Distinguished Professor at UC Irvine and founding director of its Center for Hydrometeorology & Remote Sensing, known for the PERSIANN satellite rainfall system and the SCE-UA calibration algorithm.
Sorority Boys
Sorority Boys is a 2002 American comedy directed by Wallace Wolodarsky, in which three wrongly accused fraternity brothers dress as women and pledge a sorority to clear their names.
Sorority Row
Sorority Row (2009) is a Stewart Hendler slasher remake of The House on Sorority Row, starring Briana Evigan, Leah Pipes, and Rumer Willis; released by Summit on September 11, 2009, grossing $12.0M with 24% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Sororium Tigillum
Sororium Tigillum, the sister's beam (Tigillum Sororium), an ancient Roman wooden crossbar on two posts on the Oppius slope where Horatius passed in expiation for killing his sister, with altars of Juno Sororia and Janus Curiatius and rites on 1 October.
Soros
Soros (Greek σῶρος, mound; τάφος Ἀθηναίων) is the burial tumulus at Marathon, Attica, covering the cremated remains of the 192 Athenian dead of the 490 BC battle; 9 m high, 50 m across, excavated by Staes in 1890 to 1891.