Socrates (disambiguation)

Socrates was an Athenian philosopher.

Socrates, Sócrates, Sokrates or Sokratis may also refer to:

Ancient Greeks

 * Socrates of Achaea (c. 436–401 BC), mercenary general of the Ten Thousand
 * Socrates of Macedon (4th century BC), a hipparchos or cavalry officer in Alexander the Great's army
 * Socrates the Younger (4th century BC), Athenian philosopher
 * Socrates Chrestus (died 90–88 BC), Greek prince and King of Bithynia

Athletes

 * Sócrates (1954–2011), Brazilian footballer
 * Socrates Brito (born 1992), Dominican baseball player
 * Sócrates Parri (born 1966), Spanish footballer
 * Sócrates Pedro (born 1992), Portuguese footballer
 * Sócrates Quintana (1891–1984), Spanish footballer and artist
 * Sokratis Aristodimou (born 1970), Cypriot alpine skier
 * Sokratis Boudouris (born 1977), Greek footballer
 * Sokratis Dioudis (born 1993), Greek football goalkeeper
 * Sokratis Fytanidis (born 1984), Greek footballer
 * Sokratis Kyrillidis (born 1998), Greek footballer
 * Sokratis Lagoudakis (1861–1944), Greek track athlete
 * Sokratis Naoumis (born 1997), Greek basketball player
 * Sokratis Ofrydopoulos (born 1973), Greek football manager and former player
 * Sokratis Papastathopoulos (born 1988), Greek footballer
 * Sokratis Petrou (born 1979), Greek footballer
 * Sokratis Psaropoulos (born 1992), Greek basketball player
 * Sokratis Tsoukalas (born 1992), Greek footballer

Politicians, soldiers and businesspeople

 * Socrates N. Sherman (1801–1873), U.S. Representative from New York and American Civil War officer
 * Socrates Nelson (1814–1867), American businessman and politician
 * Sócrates Rizzo (born 1945), Mexican politician
 * Socrates Tuttle (1819–1885), American politician from New Jersey
 * Sokrates Starynkiewicz (1820–1902), Russian general and mayor of Warsaw
 * Sokratis Kokkalis (born 1939), Greek businessman and billionaire
 * Sokratis Kosmidis (born 1945), Greek lawyer and politician
 * Sokratis Xynidis (born 1963), Greek politician

Religious figures

 * martyrs Socrates and Stephen
 * Socrates of Constantinople (c. 380–after 439), also known as Socrates Scholasticus, a Byzantine church historian
 * Socrates Villegas (born 1960), Roman Catholic archbishop in the Philippines

Writers

 * Socrates K. Valath (born 1963), Indian novelist and short story writer
 * Sócrates Nolasco (1884–1980), writer from the Dominican Republic
 * Sokratis Giolias (1973–2010), assassinated Greek journalist
 * Sokratis Skartsis (born 1936), Greek poet

Other

 * Socrates Hotchkiss Tryon, Sr. (1816–1855), American pioneer physician in the Oregon Territory
 * Socrates Tzartos, Greek biologist and neuro-immunologist
 * Sokrates Pantelides (born 1948), Greek American physicist and electrical engineer
 * Sokratis Karantinos (1906–1979), Greek theatre director, theatre critic, drama school teacher and actor
 * Sokratis Malamas (born 1957), Greek singer/songwriter

Surname

 * Jeanne Socrates (born 1942), British yachtswoman and solo circumnavigator
 * José Sócrates (born 1957), Prime Minister of Portugal (2005–2011)

In literature

 * Socrates, the name used by Petrarch to refer to his dear friend Lodewijk Heyligen in his writings
 * Socrates, a pseudonym for the mentor-like figure in the books of Dan Millman

Arts and entertainment

 * Socrates "Cooch" Windgrass, a character in the comic strip Footrot Flats
 * Socrates Drank the Conium (sometimes abbreviated to "Socrates"), a Greek rock band
 * Socrates (sculpture), a 1950 outdoor sculpture by W. V. Casey
 * Socrates (Voltaire), a play

Film and TV

 * Socrates (film), a 1971 film directed by Roberto Rossellini
 * Sócrates (film), a 2018 film directed by Alexandre Moratto
 * Socrates the Scarecrow, a character from the 1961 animated television series Tales of the Wizard of Oz and the 1964 animated television movie sequel Return to Oz
 * Socrates, the lion from the film Animals United

Other uses

 * Project Socrates, a classified US Defense Intelligence Agency program established in 1983
 * Socrates II, a chess-playing computer program
 * Socrates Mountain, a mountain in West Virginia
 * Socrates (pain assessment), a mnemonic used in the evaluation of a patient's pain
 * Socrates programme, a European education programme
 * SOCRATES (satellite), a Japanese satellite
 * Socrates Sculpture Park, New York City
 * Socrates, Georgia, a community in the United States
 * VTech Socrates, an educational video game system