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 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, 1988
  • "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 <code>sysreport</code>, 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), 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&ndash;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)