# 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

## 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, 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

* "SOS" (ABBA song), 1975
* "S.O.S." (Pink Lady song), 1976
* "S.O.S." (ABC song), 1984
* "SOS" (Rihanna song), 2006
* "S.O.S" (Jonas Brothers song), 2007
* "S.O.S." (Ola song), 2007
* "S.O.S" (Indila song), 2014
* "SOS" (Avicii song), 2019
* "S.O.S. (Let the Music Play)", by Jordin Sparks
* "S.O.S. (Smile on Smile)", by Kis-My-Ft2
* "S.O.S. (The Tiger Took My Family)", by Dr. Bombay
* "S.O.S. (Too Bad)", by Aerosmith, 1974
* "(Sending Out An) S.O.S." by Retta Young, 1975
* "Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.)", by Mötley Crüe on the album Dr. Feelgood
* "Stop Her on Sight (S.O.S.)" by Edwin Starr, 1966
* "S.O.S." by Stratovarius, from the album Destiny
* "SOS", a song by Elena Patroklou, Cyprus' entry in the 1991 Eurovision Song Contest'
* "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 The Family International
* "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.", La Bouche song
* "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", by Dethklok from Dethalbum IV
* "SOS", by MAX from Colour Vision (album)
* "SOS", by Papa Roach from The Paramour Sessions
* "SOS", by Sekai no Owari
* "SOS", by Take That from their album Progress
* "SOS", by Fifty Fifty from the extended play "Love Tune"

### 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 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), 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