SOS (disambiguation)

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

SOS may also refer to:

Places

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

People

• Bill Sayer, rugby player
• Sós, a surname
• Stephen Silvagni (born 1967), Australian football player, nickname
• Shaun Marsh (born 1983), Australian cricketer, nickname

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

• S.O.S. (1928 film), UK
• S.O.S. (1999 film), Norwegian / Italian
• S.O.S. – En segelsällskapsresa, Swedish film
• Son of Sardaar (2012), Hindi film

Games

• SOS: The Final Escape or Disaster Report, a video game
• SOS (1993 video game), 1993, SNES
• SOS (arcade game), 1979, Namco
• SOS (game), played with paper and pencil

Literature

• S.O.S. (novel), by Joseph Connolly
• SOS, a short story manga collection by Hinako Ashihara
• Sos the Rope, a novel by Piers Anthony

Music

Groups and labels

• SOS (Indonesian group)
• SOS (Turkish Cypriot band)
• Sisters of Shu, Dee Shu and Barbie Shu
• SOS Records
• Swing Out Sister, UK band since the 1980s
• Symphony of Soul, band of Bowie State University, Maryland, US
• The S.O.S. Band, US band since the 1970s

Albums

• S.O.S (Morgana Lefay album), 2000
• S.O.S. (S.O.S. Band album), 1980
• S.O.S., a 1998 album by La Bouche, and the title song
• SOS (Millencolin album), 2019
• $O$, a 2010 album by Die Antwoord

Songs

• "S.O.S." (ABC song), 1984
• "S.O.S" (Jonas Brothers song), 2007
• "S.O.S." (Ola song), 2007
• "S.O.S." (Pink Lady song), 1976
• "S.O.S." by Stratovarius, from the album Destiny
• "S.O.S. (Let the Music Play)", by Jordin Sparks
• "S.O.S. (The Tiger Took My Family)", by Dr. Bombay (Jonny Jakobsen)
• "S.O.S. (Too Bad)", by Aerosmith, 1974
• "S.O.S.", by Collie Buddz from WWE The Music, Vol. 8
• "S.O.S.", by Jerry Cantrell from Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2
• "S.O.S.", by Chroma Key from Dead Air for Radios
• "S.O.S.", by Good Charlotte from The Chronicles of Life and Death
• "S.O.S.", by Earl Greyhound from Soft Targets
• "S.O.S.", by Indila from Mini World
• "S.O.S.", La Bouche song
• "S.O.S.", by The Suicide Machines from their album Destruction by Definition
• "S.O.S. (Anything But Love)", by Apocalyptica from Worlds Collide
• "SOS" (ABBA song), 1975
• "SOS" (Avicii song)
• "SOS" (Elena Patroklou song), 1991
• "SOS" (Rihanna song), 2006
• "SOS", by Papa Roach from The Paramour Sessions
• "SOS", by Sekai no Owari
• "SOS", by Take That from their album Progress
• "Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.)", by Mötley Crüe on the album Dr. Feelgood

Television

• S.O.S. (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
• "S.O.S. (Lost)", episode
• S.O.S.: Sexo y otros secretos, Mexican TV series

Computing, and technology

• Apple SOS, an operating system
• Science On a Sphere, a display system
• Secure Our Smartphones, New York State and San Francisco initiative
• Sensor Observation Service, a standardized web service (OGC)
• SHARE Operating System, IBM
• Silicon on sapphire, a circuit-manufacturing process
• Son of sysreport, in Linux
• Special ordered set, in optimization
• Structural operational semantics, in computer programming
• System of systems, in systems engineering

Food

• S.O.S. (appetizer), Swedish
• S.O.S., US military slang for chipped beef on toast

Government and military

• Secretary of state
• 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 (Czechoslovakia), Czechoslovakia, 1918–1936

Mathematics

• Polynomial SOS, decomposing into a sum of squares
• Sum of squares (disambiguation), in mathematics

Medicine and science

• Si opus sit, use medicine if needed
• Sinusoidal obstruction syndrome, a medical condition
• Son of Sevenless, a type of gene
• SOS response, a DNA repair system

Organizations

• Boat People SOS, for Vietnamese immigrants
• Samaritans of Singapore
• Save Outdoor Sculpture!, US
• Secular Organizations for Sobriety
• Share Our Strength, US anti-hunger organization
• SOS Children's Villages, international organisation
• Stop Our Ship (SOS), antiwar movement during the Vietnam War

Sport

• Strength of schedule, a competitor rating statistic
• Survival of the Shawangunks, a triathlon held in New Paltz, New York

Other uses

• Södersjukhuset, a hospital in Stockholm, Sweden
• Somali shilling (ISO 4217 code), the currency of Somalia