SOS (disambiguation)

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
• son of sysreport, a set of utilities for Linux diagnostics and debugging
• 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., and 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)