Socrates (disambiguation)

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Socrates (c. 469 BC – 399 BC) is an ancient Greek philosopher.

Socrates (sometimes Sokrates) may also refer to:

People

Ancient Greece

• Socrates of Achaea (c. 436–401 BC), mercenary general of the Ten Thousand
• Socrates of Macedon, a hipparchos or cavalry officer in Alexander the Great's army
• Socrates the Younger, an interlocutor in Plato's Statesman

In Christianity

• Christian martyrs Socrates and Stephen
• Socrates of Constantinople (born c. 380), also known as Socrates Scholasticus, a Byzantine church historian
• Socrates B. Villegas (born 1960), Roman Catholic archbishop in the Philippines

Sports

• Sócrates (1954–2011), Brazilian football player
• Sokratis Bountouris (born 1977), a Greek football player
• Sokratis Fytanidis (born 1984), Greek football player
• Sokratis Lagoudakis (1861–1944), Greek track athlete
• Sokratis Papastathopoulos (born 1988), Greek football player

Other

• Sokratis Kokkalis (born 1939), Greek businessman
• Socrates Nelson (1814-1867), American businessman and politician
• Socrates N. Sherman (1801–1873), U.S. Representative from New York and officer in the American Civil War
• Assassination of Sokratis Giolias (1973–2010), Greek journalist
• Sokratis Skartsis (born 1936), Greek poet
• Saukrates (born 1978), Canadian rapper
• Sokratis Malamas (born 1957), Greek singer/songwriter
• José Sócrates (born 1957), Prime Minister of Portugal (2005–2011)
• Sokrates Starynkiewicz (1820–1902), Mayor of Warsaw

In literature

• Socrates, the name used by Petrarch in his letters and writings to refer to his dear friend Lodewijk Heyligen (more commonly known as Ludovicus Sanctus)
• Socrates, a pseudonym for the mentor-like figure in the books written by Dan Millman

In entertainment

• Socrates (Voltaire), a play
• Socrates (film), a 1971 film directed by Roberto Rossellini
• Socrate, a symphonic drama about the philosopher Socrates by Erik Satie
• Socrates Drank the Conium (sometimes abbreviated to "Socrates"), a Greek rock band
• VTech Socrates, an educational video game system
• Socrates, a 1993 chess engine base of Kasparov's Gambit chess videogame
• Socrates II, a chess-playing computer program
• Socrates "Cooch" Windgrass, a character in Footrot Flats
• Socrates, the lion from the film Animals United

Other uses

• Socrates programme, a European education programme
• SOCRATES, Satellite Orbital Conjunction Reports Assessing Threatening Encounters in Space, a web application run by CelesTrak
• Socrates (pain assessment), a mnemonic used in the evaluation of a patient's 'pain'
• Socrates (sculpture), a 1950 outdoor sculpture by artist W.V. Casey

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