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

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

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

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, 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

 * S.O.S. (S.O.S. Band album), a 1980 album and debut of The S.O.S. Band
 * S.O.S., a 1998 album by La Bouche, and its title song
 * S.O.S (Morgana Lefay album), a 2000 album by Morgana Lefay
 * SOS (SZA album), a 2022 album by SZA
 * $O$, a 2010 album by Die Antwoord
 * SOS (Millencolin album), a 2019 album by Millencolin
 * S.O.S.: Save Our Soul, 2007 album by Mark Broussard

Songs

 * "Stop Her on Sight (S.O.S.)" by Edwin Starr, 1966
 * "S.O.S. (Too Bad)", by Aerosmith, 1974
 * "(Sending Out An) S.O.S." by Retta Young, 1975
 * "SOS" (ABBA song), 1975
 * "S.O.S." (Pink Lady song), 1976
 * "S.O.S." (ABC song), 1984
 * "S.O.S" (Jonas Brothers song), 2007
 * "S.O.S." (Ola song), 2007
 * "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.", 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 Gotthard from Firebirth
 * "S.O.S.", by Earl Greyhound from Soft Targets
 * "S.O.S." (Indila song), by Indila from Mini World
 * "S.O.S.", La Bouche song
 * "SOS I'm In Love", Maddie Poppe song, 2023
 * "S.O.S.", by The Suicide Machines from their album Destruction by Definition
 * "S.O.S. (Anything But Love)", by Apocalyptica from Worlds Collide
 * "S.O.S.", by The Breeders from Last Splash
 * "SOS" (Avicii song)
 * "SOS" (Elena Patroklou song), 1991, Cypriot entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1991
 * "SOS" (Rihanna song), 2006
 * "SOS", by Dethklok from Dethalbum IV
 * "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
 * "S.O.S. (Smile on Smile)", by Kis-My-Ft2

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
 * 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

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, in Linux; see
 * 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), 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

 * 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