# Socrates (disambiguation)

Socrates was an Athenian philosopher.
Socrates, Sócrates, Sokrates or Sokratis may also refer to:

## People
### Given name
#### 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 (1936–2024), Greek poet and writer

#### 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