Socrates (disambiguation)

Socrates is a Greek name (Σωκράτης), which has recently also been transliterated as Sokratis in English. The best known of this name is the Ancient Greek philosopher Socrates.

Socrates may also refer to:

People

Given name

Ancient Greece

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

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), a Roman Catholic archbishop in the Philippines

Sports

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

Other

• Sokratis Kokkalis (born 1939), a Greek businessman
• Socrates N. Sherman (1801–1873), U.S. Representative from New York and officer in the American Civil War
• Assassination of Sokratis Giolias (1973–2010), a Greek journalist
• Sokratis Skartsis (born 1936), a Greek poet
• Saukrates (born 1977), a Canadian rapper
• Sokratis Malamas (born 1957), a Greek singer/songwriter

Surname

• José Sócrates (born 1957), Prime Minister of Portugal (2005–2011)

In literature

• Socrates the Younger, the philosopher Socrates cast as an interlocutor in Plato's Statesman
• Socrates, a pseudonym for Ludwig van Kempen (also known as Ludovico Santo di Beringen), one of Petrarch's addressees
• Socrates, a pseudonym for the mentor-like figure in the books written by Dan Millman

In entertainment

• Socrates, a play by Voltaire
• Socrates, 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 of the 1970s
• VTech Socrates, an educational video game system
• Socrates II, a chess-playing computer program
• Socrates "Cooch" Windgrass, a character in Footrot Flats

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'