SOS (disambiguation)

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

SOS may also refer to:

Places

• Sos, Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan, a village in Khojavend District
• Sos, Lot-et-Garonne, France, a commune in southern France
• Sos del Rey Católico, Aragon, Spain, a town in Zaragoza Province

People

• Bill Sayer (1934–1989), an English rugby league player nicknamed Sos
• sOs (gamer), a StarCraft II esports player
• Shaun Marsh (born 1983), an Australian cricketer nicknamed SOS (Son of Swampy)
• Sós, a surname
• Stephen Silvagni (born 1967), an Australian football player nicknamed SOS
• S.O.S (born Eskil Pedersen, 07.27.2005) is a Norwegian/English artist

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

• S.O.S. (1928 film), a 1928 British adventure film
• S.O.S. (1999 film), a 1999 Norwegian / Italian comedy film
• S.O.S. – En segelsällskapsresa, a 1988 Swedish comedy film
• Son of Sardaar, a 2012 Indian Hindi-language action-comedy film
• SOS: The San Onofre Syndrome, 2023 film

Games

• SOS (arcade game), a 1979 shoot 'em up arcade game by Namco
• SOS (1993 video game), a 1993 SNES video game
• SOS: The Final Escape or Disaster Report, a 2002 PS2 video game
• SOS (paper-and-pencil game), a more complicated version of tic-tac-toe

Literature

• "SOS" (short story), a 1933 short story by Agatha Christie
• Sos the Rope, a 1968 novel by Piers Anthony
• S.O.S. (novel), a 2001 novel by Joseph Connolly
• "SOS", a 2003 short story manga collection by Hinako Ashihara

Music

Groups and labels

• SOS (Indonesian group), an Indonesian girl group active from 2012–2016
• SOS (Turkish Cypriot band), a Turkish Cypriot rock band active since 1987
• SOS (Filipino alternative band), an alternative rock band from the Philippines
• SOS, a British band founded by Bernie Marsden
• Sisters of Shu, Dee Shu and Barbie Shu
• Swing Out Sister, a UK band active since the 1980s
• Symphony of Soul, the band of Bowie State University in Maryland, US
• The S.O.S. Band, an American R&B and electro-funk band active since 1977
• SOS Records, a punk rock record label

Albums

• SOS (Millencolin album), 2019
• S.O.S (Morgana Lefay album), 2000
• S.O.S. (S.O.S. Band album), 1980
• SOS (SZA album), 2022
• S.O.S., by La Bouche, or its title song, 1998
• S.O.S.: Save Our Soul, by Mark Broussard, 2007
• $O$, by Die Antwoord, 2022

Songs

SOS

• "SOS" (ABBA song), 1975
• "SOS" (Avicii song), 2019
• "SOS" (Rihanna song), 2006
• "SOS", by Dethklok from Dethalbum IV, 2023
• "SOS", by Elena Patroklou, Cyprus' entry in the 1991 Eurovision Song Contest, 1991
• "SOS", by Fifty Fifty from Love Tune, 2024
• "S.O.S.", by Go West from their self-titled album
• "SOS", by Max from Colour Vision (album), 2020
• "SOS", by Papa Roach from The Paramour Sessions, 2006
• "SOS", by Sekai no Owari from Eye, 2019
• "SOS", by Take That from Progress, 2010
• "SOS", by Aitch from 4, 2025

S.O.S or S.O.S.

• "S.O.S." (ABC song), 1984
• "S.O.S" (Indila song), 2014
• "S.O.S" (Jonas Brothers song), 2007
• "S.O.S." (Pink Lady song), 1976
• "S.O.S." (Ola song), 2007
• "S.O.S.", by August Burns Red from Season of Surrender, 2026
• "S.O.S.", by The Breeders from Last Splash, 1993
• "S.O.S.", by Chroma Key from Dead Air for Radios, 1998
• "S.O.S.", by Collie Buddz from WWE The Music, Vol. 8, 2008
• "S.O.S.", by Earl Greyhound from Soft Targets, 2006
• "S.O.S.", by Good Charlotte from The Chronicles of Life and Death, 2004
• "S.O.S.", by Gotthard from Firebirth, 2012
• "S.O.S.", by Hayley Kiyoko from Panorama, 2022
• "S.O.S.", by Jerry Cantrell from Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2, 2002
• "S.O.S.", by La Bouche from A Moment of Love, 1999
• "S.O.S.", by Stratovarius from Destiny, 1998
• "S.O.S.", by The Suicide Machines from Destruction by Definition, 1996
• "S.O.S. (Let the Music Play)", by Jordin Sparks, 2009
• "S.O.S. (Smile on Smile)", by Kis-My-Ft2, 2013
• "S.O.S. (Too Bad)", by Aerosmith, 1974
• "S.O.S. (The Tiger Took My Family)", by Dr. Bombay, 1998
• "(Sending Out An) S.O.S." by Retta Young, 1975
• "Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.)", by Mötley Crüe, 1989
• "Stop Her on Sight (S.O.S.)" by Edwin Starr, 1966
• "S.O.S. (Anything But Love)", by Apocalyptica from Worlds Collide, 2007

Television

• S.O.S. (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), a 2015 episode and season 2 finale
• "S.O.S. (Lost)", a 2006 episode of the second season
• "SOS (Save Our Show)", a 2021 episode of the web series Battle for Dream Island
• S.O.S.: Sexo y otros secretos, a 2007 Mexican TV series
• "S.O.S", a segment of the 2017 Thai TV series Project S: The Series
• S.O.S.: Stories of Survival, Philippine television program
• Satanische Omroep Stichting, a Dutch pirate television station

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)
• Scrum of scrums, in software development
• SHARE Operating System, IBM
• Silicon on sapphire, a circuit-manufacturing process
• Son of sysreport, in Linux; see Red Hat § Utilities and tools
• Special ordered set, in optimization
• Structural operational semantics, in computer programming
• System of systems, in systems engineering

Food

• S.O.S. (appetizer), Swedish
• "Shit On a Shingle", 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), 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, a Vietnamese-American association
• Samaritans of Singapore, a suicide prevention centre
• Save Outdoor Sculpture!, a program of Heritage Preservation from 1989–1999
• Secular Organizations for Sobriety, an addiction recovery program
• Share Our Strength, a US hunger relief organization
• SOS Children's Villages, an organization that maintains housing and services for children without stable parental care
• SOS Sahel Ethiopia, a non-governmental organization in Ethiopia working on rural development
• Stop Our Ship (SOS), an antiwar movement during the Vietnam War

Sport

• Side out scoring, a competition where a team can only earn points when serving
• 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: SOS), currency of Somalia
• SOS incident, several missing person incidents in Hokkaidō, Japan in the 1980s
• S.O.S Soap Pads

See also

• SoS (disambiguation)