SOS (disambiguation)

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SOS is the common name of the international Morse code distress signal.

SOS may also refer to:

Geography

• Sos, Azerbaijan
• Sos, Lot-et-Garonne, France
• Sos del Rey Católico, Aragon, Spain

People

• Sheamus O'Shaunessy, professional wrestler
• Stephen Silvagni (born 1967), Australian football player
• Vera T. Sós, an Hungarian mathematician
• Steve Spurrier (born 1945), American football head coach

Art, entertainment, and media

Art

• Self Organizing Still-Life, an art style

Books

• SOS, a short story manga collection by Hinako Ashihara
• S.O.S., novel by Joseph Connolly
• Sos the Rope, a novel in the Battle Circle series by Piers Anthony
• The Sword of Shannara (1977), a novel in the Shannara series by Terry Brooks

Fictional characters and organizations

• SOS Brigade, a fictional organization in the Haruhi Suzumiya franchise

Film and television

• Son of Sardaar (2012), a Hindi film
• S.O.S., a 1928 British film

Games

• SOS, arcade game
• SOS, a game played with paper and pencil
• SOS, video game

Music

Artists and companies

• Sisters of Shu, a Chinese musical duo consisting of Dee Hsu and Barbie Hsu
• SOS, Turkish Cypriot rock group
• S.O.S, Indonesian girl-group
• SOS Records, a record label
• The SOS Band, an American R&B group formed in the 1970s
• Swing Out Sister, a British pop group formed in the 1980s

Albums

• $O$, Die Antwoord's debut album
• S.O.S., an album by La Bouche, and the title song
• S.O.S, Morgana Lefay album
• S.O.S., S.O.S. Band album
• Sound of Silver, a 2007 album by LCD Soundsystem

Songs

• "Message in a Bottle", a song by The Police, covered as "S.O.S. (Message in a Bottle)" by Filterfunk
• "Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.)", a song by Mötley Crüe on the album Dr. Feelgood
• "SOS", ABBA song
• "S.O.S.", a song by Jerry Cantrell from Degradation Trip Vol 1 & 2
• "S.O.S.", a song by Kasia Cerekwicka from Pokój 203
• "S.O.S.", a song by Chroma Key from Dead Air For Radios
• "S.O.S.", a song by Collie Buddz from WWE The Music, Vol. 8
• "S.O.S.", a song by Good Charlotte from The Chronicles of Life and Death
• "S.O.S.", a song by Earl Greyhound from Soft Targets
• "S.O.S.", a song by Indila from Mini World
• "SOS.", Jonas Brothers song
• "S.O.S.", La Bouche song
• "SOS", Elena Patroklou song
• "S.O.S.", Pink Lady song
• "SOS", Rihanna song
• "SOS", a song by Papa Roach from The Paramour Sessions
• "S.O.S.", Stratovarius song
• "S.O.S.", a song by The Suicide Machines from Destruction By Definition
• "S.O.S.", Ola Svensson song
• "SOS", a song by Take That from Progress
• "S.O.S. (Anything But Love)", a song by Apocalyptica
• "S.O.S. (Let the Music Play)", a song by Jordin Sparks
• "S.O.S. (The Tiger Took My Family)", a song by Dr. Bombay (Jonny Jakobsen)
• "S.O.S. (Too Bad)", a 1974 song by Aerosmith

Periodicals

• Scotland on Sunday, a Scottish Sunday newspaper

Television

• "S.O.S.", an episode of Lost
• S.O.S.: Sexo y otros Secretos, a Mexican TV series

Food

• Shit On a Shingle, a slang term for chipped beef on toast
• S.O.S., a traditional Swedish appetizer whose main ingredients include smör, ost och sill (butter, cheese and herring)

Government and military

• Secretary of State, a common title for a government official
• 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, armed troops of Czechoslovakia border in 1918-1936

Mathematics, computing, and technology

• Apple SOS, an Apple operating system
• Polynomial SOS, the problem of decomposing a polynomial into a sum of squares
• Science On a Sphere, a dynamic, animated globe display system invented by NOAA
• Sensor Observation Service, a standardized web service (OGC) for sensor observations
• SHARE Operating System, an IBM operating system
• Silicon on sapphire, a circuit manufacturing process
• Structural operational semantics, a concept in computer programming
• Sum of squares, a mathematical concept
• Symbian OS, the operating system developed and sold by Symbian Ltd. The OS is used primarily by Nokia with its S60 user interface and by Sony Ericsson with its UIQ user interface.
• System of systems, a concept in systems engineering

Medicine and science

• Si opus sit, a Latin abbreviation sometimes used in pharmaceutical prescriptions
• Sinusoidal obstruction syndrome, a medical condition
• Sodium octyl sulfate, a surfactant similar to sodium lauryl sulfate containing an eight carbon chain instead of twelve
• Son of Sevenless, a type of gene
• SOS response, a DNA repair system

Organizations

• Boat People SOS, a nonprofit serving Vietnamese immigrants
• Samaritans of Singapore
• Save Our Selves, a group of climate change activists
• Save Our Streets, a Los Angeles Police Department gang homicide task force
• Save Outdoor Sculpture! community based initiative to promote public sculpture awareness
• Secular Organizations for Sobriety, an addiction recovery group
• Share Our Strength, an anti-hunger organization
• Society of Ordained Scientists
• SOS Children's Villages, an independent, non-governmental international development organisation

Sport

• "S.O.S.", catchphrase of Kofi Kingston (born 1981), professional wrestler
• Strength of schedule, a competitor rating statistic
• Survival of the Shawangunks, a triathlon held in New Paltz, New York

Other uses

• Sawed-off shotgun
• Södersjukhuset, a hospital in Stockholm, Sweden
• Somali shilling (ISO 4217 code), the currency of Somalia
• Synagogue of Satan (SoS), Biblical reference in Rev 2:9

See also

• Sink or Swim (disambiguation)