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 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
- Socrates (director) (born 1970), a film director
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