SOS (disambiguation)
Appearance
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SOS is the common name of the international Morse code distress signal.
SOS may also refer to:
Places
[edit]- Sos, Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan, a village in Khojavend District
- Sos, Lot-et-Garonne, France, a commune in southern France
- Sos del Rey Católico, Aragon, Spain, a town in Zaragoza Province
People
[edit]- Bill Sayer (1934–1989), an English rugby league player nicknamed Sos
- sOs (gamer), a StarCraft II esports player
- Shaun Marsh (born 1983), an Australian cricketer nicknamed SOS (Son of Swampy)
- Sós, a surname
- Stephen Silvagni (born 1967), an Australian football player nicknamed SOS
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]Films
[edit]- S.O.S. (1928 film), a 1928 British adventure film
- S.O.S. (1999 film), a 1999 Norwegian / Italian comedy film
- S.O.S. – En segelsällskapsresa, a 1988 Swedish comedy film
- Son of Sardaar, a 2012 Indian Hindi-language action-comedy film
- SOS: The San Onofre Syndrome, 2023 film
Games
[edit]- SOS (arcade game), a 1979 shoot 'em up arcade game by Namco
- SOS (1993 video game), a 1993 SNES video game
- SOS: The Final Escape or Disaster Report, a 2002 PS2 video game
- SOS (paper-and-pencil game), a more complicated version of tic-tac-toe
Literature
[edit]- "SOS" (short story), a 1933 short story by Agatha Christie
- Sos the Rope, a 1968 novel by Piers Anthony
- S.O.S. (novel), a 2001 novel by Joseph Connolly
- "SOS", a 2003 short story manga collection by Hinako Ashihara
Music
[edit]Groups and labels
[edit]- SOS (Indonesian group), an Indonesian girl group active from 2012–2016
- SOS (Turkish Cypriot band), a Turkish Cypriot rock band active since 1987
- SOS, a British band founded by Bernie Marsden
- Sisters of Shu, Dee Shu and Barbie Shu
- Swing Out Sister, a UK band active since the 1980s
- Symphony of Soul, the band of Bowie State University in Maryland, US
- The S.O.S. Band, an American R&B and electro-funk band active since 1977
- SOS Records, a punk rock record label
Albums
[edit]- S.O.S. (S.O.S. Band album), a 1980 album and debut of The S.O.S. Band
- S.O.S., a 1998 album by La Bouche, and its title song
- S.O.S (Morgana Lefay album), a 2000 album by Morgana Lefay
- SOS (SZA album), a 2022 album by SZA
- $O$, a 2010 album by Die Antwoord
- SOS (Millencolin album), a 2019 album by Millencolin
- S.O.S.: Save Our Soul, 2007 album by Mark Broussard
Songs
[edit]- "Stop Her on Sight (S.O.S.)" by Edwin Starr, 1966
- "S.O.S. (Too Bad)", by Aerosmith, 1974
- "(Sending Out An) S.O.S." by Retta Young, 1975
- "SOS" (ABBA song), 1975
- "S.O.S." (Pink Lady song), 1976
- "S.O.S." (ABC song), 1984
- "S.O.S" (Jonas Brothers song), 2007
- "S.O.S." (Ola song), 2007
- "S.O.S." by Stratovarius, from the album Destiny
- "S.O.S. (Let the Music Play)", by Jordin Sparks
- "S.O.S. (The Tiger Took My Family)", by Dr. Bombay (Jonny Jakobsen)
- "S.O.S.", by Collie Buddz from WWE The Music, Vol. 8
- "S.O.S.", by Jerry Cantrell from Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2
- "S.O.S.", by Chroma Key from Dead Air for Radios
- "S.O.S.", by The Family International
- "S.O.S.", by Good Charlotte from The Chronicles of Life and Death
- "S.O.S.", by Gotthard from Firebirth
- "S.O.S.", by Earl Greyhound from Soft Targets
- "S.O.S." (Indila song), by Indila from Mini World
- "S.O.S.", La Bouche song
- "SOS I'm In Love", Maddie Poppe song, 2023
- "S.O.S.", by The Suicide Machines from their album Destruction by Definition
- "S.O.S. (Anything But Love)", by Apocalyptica from Worlds Collide
- "S.O.S.", by The Breeders from Last Splash
- "SOS" (Avicii song)
- "SOS" (Elena Patroklou song), 1991, Cypriot entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1991
- "SOS" (Rihanna song), 2006
- "SOS", by Dethklok from Dethalbum IV
- "SOS", by MAX from Colour Vision (album)
- "SOS", by Papa Roach from The Paramour Sessions
- "SOS", by Sekai no Owari
- "SOS", by Take That from their album Progress
- "Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.)", by Mötley Crüe on the album Dr. Feelgood
- "S.O.S. (Smile on Smile)", by Kis-My-Ft2
- "SOS", by Fifty Fifty from the extended play "Love Tune"
Television
[edit]- S.O.S. (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), a 2015 episode and season 2 finale
- "S.O.S. (Lost)", a 2006 episode of the second season
- S.O.S.: Sexo y otros secretos, a 2007 Mexican TV series
- "S.O.S", a segment of the 2017 Thai TV series Project S: The Series
- S.O.S.: Stories of Survival, Philippine television program
Computing, and technology
[edit]- Apple SOS, an operating system
- Science On a Sphere, a display system
- Secure Our Smartphones, New York State and San Francisco initiative
- Sensor Observation Service, a standardized web service (OGC)
- Scrum of scrums, in software development
- SHARE Operating System, IBM
- Silicon on sapphire, a circuit-manufacturing process
- Son of
sysreport
, in Linux; see Red Hat § Utilities and tools - Special ordered set, in optimization
- Structural operational semantics, in computer programming
- System of systems, in systems engineering
Food
[edit]- S.O.S. (appetizer), Swedish
- "Shit On a Shingle", US military slang for chipped beef on toast
Government and military
[edit]- Secretary of state
- Services of Supply, a branch of the United States army
- Special Operations Squadron, United States Air Force units
- Squadron Officer School, a United States Air Force leadership school
- State Defense Guard (Czechoslovakia), Czechoslovakia, 1918–1936
Mathematics
[edit]- Polynomial SOS, decomposing into a sum of squares
- Sum of squares (disambiguation), in mathematics
Medicine and science
[edit]- Si opus sit, use medicine if needed
- Sinusoidal obstruction syndrome, a medical condition
- Son of Sevenless, a type of gene
- SOS response, a DNA repair system
Organizations
[edit]- Boat People SOS, a Vietnamese-American association
- Samaritans of Singapore, a suicide prevention centre
- Save Outdoor Sculpture!, a program of Heritage Preservation from 1989–1999
- Secular Organizations for Sobriety, an addiction recovery program
- Share Our Strength, a US hunger relief organization
- SOS Children's Villages, an organization that maintains housing and services for children without stable parental care
- SOS Sahel Ethiopia, a non-governmental organization in Ethiopia working on rural development
- Stop Our Ship (SOS), an antiwar movement during the Vietnam War
Sport
[edit]- Strength of schedule, a competitor rating statistic
- Survival of the Shawangunks, a triathlon held in New Paltz, New York
Other uses
[edit]- Södersjukhuset, a hospital in Stockholm, Sweden
- Somali shilling (ISO 4217 code: SOS), currency of Somalia
- SOS incident, several missing person incidents in Hokkaidō, Japan in the 1980s
- S.O.S Soap Pads