Sophia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Also see SOPHIA from the Blaster Master video-game series.

Sophia is a common name that comes from the Greek word σοφία ("wisdom"), that may refer to:

Contents 1 Spiritual 2 Real and fictional women named Sophia (or variants thereof) 3 Bands named Sophia (see Sophia (band)) 4 Geographic locations 5 Science 6 See also

[edit] Spiritual

• Sophia (gnosticism), a gnostic deity
• The Sophia of Jesus Christ, gnostic tractate from Nag Hammadi
• Pistis Sophia, the gnostic text
• An important theme in the intertestamental Jewish writing, Sirach (Ben Sirach). In this book wisdom comes from the Torah.

[edit] Real and fictional women named Sophia (or variants thereof)

Sofia Arvidsson Sofia Coppola Sofia Curtis Sofia Essaïdi Sofia Gubaidulina Sofia Konoukh Sofia Kovalevskaya Sofia Lidskog Sofia Milos Sofia Mulanovich Sofia Muratova Sofia Rotaru Sofia Shinas Sofia Vassilieva Sofie Fatale Sofie Oosterwaal Sofya Vlasyuk Sophie Amundsen - protagonist of the novel Sophie's World Sophia Alekseyevna Sophia Ali Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen Sophia Baddeley Sophia Anastasia Becker Sophia Hayden Bennett Sophia Brahe Sophia Bush Sophia Rayoo Sophia Collier Sophia Dussek Sophia Esteed Sophia Ferrari Sophia Forero

Sophia Germain Sophia Hapgood Sophia Jex-Blake Sophia Kang Sophia Karp Sophia Lamar Sophia Lee Sophia Leung Sophia Levine Sophia Loren Sophia Lorentzen Sophia Lopez Sophia McDougall Sophia Michahelles Sophia Myles Sophia Ong Sophia Paleologue Sophia Yakovlevna Parnok Sophia Peabody Sophia Lvovna Perovskaya Sophia Petrillo Sophia Ripley Sophia Romero Sophia Smith Sophia Stewart Sophia D. Stoddard Sophia Wilson Sophia Yan Queen Sofia of Spain Sofia of Bavaria Wittelsbach Sophia Amelia of Brunswick-Lüneburg Sophia of Hanover

Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, granddaughter of Sophia of Hanover: daughter of Sophia Dorothea of Celle Sophia Dorothea of Celle Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Sophia Magdalen of Brandenburg-Kulmbach Sophia of Nassau Sophia of Prussia Princess Amelia Sophia of Great Britain, daughter of King George II Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom, second daughter of King George III Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom, fifth daughter of George III: younger sister of Princess Augusta Sophia Princess Sophia of Gloucester, first cousin of Princesses Augusta Sophia and Sophia Sophitia Alexandra (fictional Soul Calibur video game character) — her name isn't exactly "Sophia", but is derived from it. Sophia Forrester, first officer on the battleship Silvana, and daughter of the Anatole emperor in the anime series, Last Exile.

[edit] Bands named Sophia (see Sophia (band))

• A group (Sophia (indie rock band)) including ex-God Machine member Robin Proper-Sheppard
• A Swedish industrial/martial band, also named Sophia (industrial band).

[edit] Geographic locations

• Hagia Sophia or Saint Sophia, Istanbul
  • for other meanings of Hagia Sophia or St. Sophia, see Hagia Sophia (disambiguation)
• Sofia, Bulgaria
• Sophia, West Virginia

• Asteroid 251 Sophia.
• Sophia Cathedral in Russia
• Sophia University in Tokyo
• Sophia Antipolis, France

[edit] Science

The NASA Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy is abbreviated as SOFIA

[edit] See also

• Sophie
• Logos
• Aeons
• Vladimir Soloviev