Socrates (disambiguation)

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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 (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

See also

• Saukrates (born 1978), Canadian rapper
• Socrate, a symphonic drama about the philosopher Socrates by Erik Satie
• "Sokrati", the Greek entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1979

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