Sophie
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Sophie is the French and German form of the name Sophia
. In English speaking countries, Sophie has also been a diminutive of Sophia.
Sophie and Sophy may refer to:
Sophia (name)
Sophia is a female name derived from σοφία, the Greek word for "Wisdom." Sophie is from the French form. Sophia has been a popular name throughout the western world...
. In English speaking countries, Sophie has also been a diminutive of Sophia.
Sophie and Sophy may refer to:
People
- Princess Sophie of BavariaPrincess Sophie of BavariaSophie Friederike Dorothee Wilhelmine, Princess of Bavaria was born to King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria and his second wife Karoline of Baden. She was the identical twin sister of Princess Maria Anna of Bavaria, Queen of Saxony as wife of Frederick Augustus II of Saxony...
(1805-1872), mother of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria - Princess Sophie von HohenbergPrincess Sophie von HohenbergPrincess Sophie of Hohenberg was the only daughter of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his morganatic wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg....
(1901-1990), Austrian aristocrat - Sophie AdlersparreSophie AdlersparreCarin Sophie Adlersparre née Leijonhufvud , was a Swedish feminist, publisher, editor, writer and friherinna...
(1823-1895), Swedish feminist - Sophie AldredSophie AldredSophie Aldred is an English actress and television presenter, best known for her portrayal of The Doctor's companion Ace in the television series Doctor Who during the late 1980s.-Early life:...
(born 1962), English actress - Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1628-1685), Queen consort of Denmark-Norway
- Sophie AndertonSophie AndertonSophie Anderton is an English model and reality television personality.-Early life:Anderton attended Redland High School for Girls in Bristol between 1988 and 1993...
(born 1977), English television presenter - Sophie BlakeSophie BlakeSophie Blake , is an English television presenter and former model.-Career:Blake studied drama, and then travelled working in bars and restaurants for a few years. She did some modelling, and put a home-made show-reel together which United Sports picked up, and got her interviewing footballers in...
(born 1972), English television presenter - Sophie BlanchardSophie BlanchardSophie Blanchard was a French aeronaut and the wife of ballooning pioneer Jean-Pierre Blanchard. Blanchard was the first woman to work as a professional balloonist, and after her husband's death she continued ballooning, making more than 60 ascents...
(1778-1819), French balloonist - Sophie CalleSophie CalleSophie Calle is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement of the 1960s known as Oulipo. Her work frequently depicts human vulnerability, and examines...
(born 1953), French artist - Sophie ChoudrySophie ChoudrySophie Choudry is an Indian film actress, singer, former MTV India VJ and occasional model and anchor.-Early life:...
(born 1975), Indian singer and actress - Sophie, Countess of Wessex (born 1965), member of the British Royal Family
- Sophie DaguinSophie DaguinSophie Marguerite Daguin was a French ballet dancer and choreographer who spent her career in Sweden, where she became a star and the ballet mistress of the Royal Swedish Ballet and principal of the ballet school.- Biography :...
(1801-1881), French ballet dancer - Sophie DahlSophie DahlSophie Dahl , born Sophie Holloway, is an English author and former model. She was born in London, the daughter of actor Julian Holloway and writer Tessa Dahl. Her maternal grandparents were author Roald Dahl and actress Patricia Neal. Her paternal grandparents were actor Stanley Holloway and...
(born 1977), English model and author - Sophie Ellis-BextorSophie Ellis-BextorSophie Michelle Ellis-Bextor is an English singer, songwriter, model and occasional DJ. She first came to prominence in the late 1990s, as the lead singer of the indie rock band Theaudience. After the group disbanded, Ellis-Bextor went solo, achieving widespread success in the early 2000s...
(born 1979), English singer - Sophie Gengembre AndersonSophie Gengembre AndersonSophie Gengembre Anderson was a French-born British artist who specialised in genre painting of children and women, typically in rural settings. Her work is loosely associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement....
(1823-1903), French-born British artist - Sophie GermainSophie GermainMarie-Sophie Germain was a French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. Despite initial opposition from her parents and difficulties presented by a gender-biased society, she gained education from books in her father's library and from correspondence with famous mathematicians such as...
(1776-1831), French mathematician - Sophie GrégoireSophie GrégoireSophie Grégoire , graduated in communication, the wife of Justin Trudeau, son of late Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Grégoire and Trudeau's wedding ceremony took place in May 2005 in Montreal, Quebec....
(born 1975), Canadian model and television host, wife of Justin Trudeau - Sophie GrigsonSophie GrigsonHester Sophia Frances Grigson is an English cookery writer and celebrity chef known as Sophie Grigson. She has followed the same path and career as her mother, Jane Grigson. Her father was the poet and writer Geoffrey Grigson.-Life:...
(born 1959), British chef and writer - Sophie B. HawkinsSophie B. HawkinsSophie Ballantine Hawkins is an American singer, songwriter, musician and painter. Her biggest hits are "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover", "Right Beside You", and "As I Lay Me Down".- Career :...
(born 1967), American singer - Sophie, Hereditary Princess of LiechtensteinSophie, Hereditary Princess of LiechtensteinSophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein , is the wife of Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein, Regent of Liechtenstein and heir apparent to the Liechtensteiner throne.-Early life and education:...
(born 1967) - Sophie KerrSophie KerrSophie Kerr was a prolific writer of the early 20th century whose stories about smart, ambitious women mirrored her own evolution from small-town girl to successful career woman...
(1880-1965), American author - Sophie Lancaster (1987-2007), British murder victim
- Sophie LascellesSophie LascellesSophie Amber Lascelles is the daughter of James Lascelles and his first wife, Frederica Ann Duhrssen, and the granddaughter of the George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood...
(born 1973), minor British royal - Sophie LeeSophie LeeSophie Lee is an Australian film, stage and television actress and author.-Career:Early in her career, Sophie Lee worked as a model, both in Australia and Japan appearing in print and on TV...
(born 1968), Australian actress - Sophie MannerheimSophie MannerheimBaroness Sophie Mannerheim A famous nurse known as pioneer of modern nursing in Finland. She was daughter of a count and sister of a former Finnish President, marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. Her career started as a bank employee for 6 years until she got married in 1896...
(1863-1928), Finnish nurse - Sophie MarceauSophie MarceauSophie Marceau is a French actress director, screenwriter, and author. She has appeared in 38 films. As a teenager, Marceau achieved popularity with her debut films La boum and La boum 2 , receiving a César Award for Most Promising Actress...
(born 1966), French actress - Sophie MasloffSophie MasloffSophie Masloff is an American politician. A long-time member of the Democratic Party and civil servant, she was elected to the Pittsburgh City Council and later served as the mayor of Pittsburgh from 1988 to 1994...
(born 1917), American politician - Sophie MoletaSophie MoletaSophie Moleta is an Australian singer, songwriter, composer and teacher with an intimate singing style. She is best known for her piano backed vocals in what can be described as 'folk pop', but has a wide range of recorded music with dance and house music, electronic ambient, laid back jazz and...
, New Zealand singer-songwriter - Sophie MonkSophie MonkSophie Charlene Akland Monk is a London-born Australian pop singer, actress and model. Monk was a member of female pop group Bardot and released a solo album Calendar Girl...
(born 1979), Australian singer - Sophie MullerSophie MullerSophie Muller is a British music video director, noted for her long-time collaborations with artists like Sophie Ellis-Bextor, No Doubt, Sade, Shakira, Shakespears Sister, Garbage, Blur, Annie Lennox and Eurythmics.-Background:...
(born 1962), British music video director - Sophie OkonedoSophie OkonedoSophie Okonedo, OBE is a British actress, who has starred both in successful British and American productions. In 1991, she made her acting debut in the British critically acclaimed coming-of-age drama, Young Soul Rebels...
(born 1968), British actress - Sophie PembertonSophie PembertonSophie Pemberton was a Canadian painter.Born in Victoria, British Columbia, she was the daughter of Teresa Jane Grautoff and Joseph Despard Pemberton...
(1869-1959), Canadian painter - Sophie RaworthSophie RaworthSophie Jane Raworth is an English newsreader and journalist who works for British broadcaster the BBC. She is the main presenter of the BBC News at One, presenting Tuesday to Friday, and regularly appears on the BBC News at Six and occasionally on BBC News at Ten.-Early life:Born in Surrey to a...
(born 1968), British journalist - Sophie Rostopchine, comtesse de SégurSophie Rostopchine, Comtesse de SégurSophie, Countess of Ségur was a French writer of Russian birth....
(1799-1874), French writer - Sophie SchollSophie SchollSophia Magdalena Scholl was a German student, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. She was convicted of high treason after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich with her brother Hans...
(1921-1943), German WWII resistance fighter - Sophie SchröderSophie SchröderSophie Antonie Luise Schröder , was a German actress.She was born at Paderborn, the daughter of an actor, Gottfried Bürger.She made her first appearance in opera at St Petersburg, in 1793...
(1781-1868), German actress - Sophie ThompsonSophie ThompsonSophie Thompson is an award-winning English actress, best known for playing Stella Crawford in EastEnders.-Early life:...
(born 1962), British actress - Sophie TreadwellSophie TreadwellSophie Treadwell , was a leading American playwright and journalist of the first half of the 20th century. Among her prominent works are Machinal and Intimations For Saxophone...
(1885-1970), American playwright and journalist - Sophie TuckerSophie TuckerSophie Tucker was a Russian/Ukrainian-born American singer and actress. Known for her stentorian delivery of comical and risqué songs, she was one of the most popular entertainers in America during the first half of the 20th century...
(1884-1966), American singer and actress - Sophie VavasseurSophie VavasseurSophie Vavasseur is an Irish actress best known for her award-nominated role as Evelyn Doyle in the American-German-British-Irish film Evelyn.- Career :...
(born 1992), Irish actress - Sophie WardSophie WardSophie Ward , is an English actress and the daughter of actor, Simon Ward.-Career:One of Ward's early film roles was in the film Young Sherlock Holmes. Other early films included Return to Oz, Little Dorrit and A Summer Story, and she also portrayed the unattainable love object in the video of Roxy...
(born 1964), British actress - Sophie WilsonSophie WilsonSophie Wilson is a British computer scientist. She is known for designing the Acorn Micro-Computer, the first of a long line of computers sold by Acorn Computers Ltd, as well as the instruction set of the highly successful ARM processor.- Life and career :...
, British computer scientist - Sophie WinklemanSophie WinklemanSophie Lara Winkleman is an English actress who has worked extensively in television, film and stage. On 14 February 2009, she became engaged to Lord Frederick Windsor, the son of Prince Michael and Princess Michael of Kent. They married in Hampton Court on 12 September 2009...
(born 1980), British actress - Sophie ZelmaniSophie ZelmaniSophie Zelmani is a Swedish singer-songwriter who released her first single in 1995, called "Always You".-Early life:...
(born 1972), Swedish singer-songwriter - Sophy GraySophy GraySophy Gray or Sophia Gray , was a Diocesan administrator, artist, architect, horsewoman and the wife of Cape Town bishop Robert Gray...
(1814-1871), British administrator and architect
Fiction
- Sofie Fatale, fictional character in the film Kill Bill
- Sophie Martinez, fictional character in the TV series Cory in the House
- Sophie's Choice (novel)Sophie's Choice (novel)Sophie's Choice is a novel by William Styron published in 1979. It concerns a young American Southerner, an aspiring writer, who befriends the Jewish Nathan Landau and his beautiful lover Sophie, a Polish survivor of the Nazi concentration camps...
, 1979 novel written by William Styron- Sophie's Choice (film)Sophie's Choice (film)Sophie's Choice is a 1982 American romantic drama film that tells the story of a Polish immigrant, Sophie, and her tempestuous lover who share a boarding house with a young writer in Brooklyn. The film stars Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, and Peter MacNicol. Alan J...
, 1982 film adapted from the novel
- Sophie's Choice (film)
- Sophie's WorldSophie's WorldSophie's World is a novel by Jostein Gaarder, published in 1991. It was originally written in Norwegian, but has since been translated into English and many other languages. It sold more than 30 million copies and is one of the most successful Norwegian novels outside of Norway...
, 1991 novel written by Jostein Gaarder - Sophie (TV series)Sophie (TV series)Sophie is a Canadian television sitcom starring Natalie Brown as Sophie Parker, an unmarried single mother and talent agent. The show is an English-language adaptation of Télévision de Radio-Canada's show Les Hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin...
, Canadian television series - Sophie, a character from In TreatmentIn TreatmentIn Treatment is an American HBO drama, produced and developed by Rodrigo Garcia, about a psychologist, 50-something Dr. Paul Weston, and his weekly sessions with patients, as well as those with his own therapist at the end of the week. The program, which stars Gabriel Byrne as Paul, debuted on...
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Other
- HMS Sophie (1809)HMS Sophie (1809)HMS Sophie was an 18-gun Cruizer class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. She served during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. During the War of 1812 Sophie participated in the economic war against American trade, capturing or destroying numerous small merchant vessels, and in an unsuccessful...
, British warship - Sophie (digital lib)Sophie (digital lib)Sophie is a digital library and resource center for works produced by German-speaking women, 1740-1939.Resources available at the site include literary and journalistic texts , musical scores and recordings, screenplays and dramas, and a collection of colonial/travel texts...
, digital library of works by German-speaking women - SOPHIE échelle spectrographSOPHIE échelle spectrographThe SOPHIE échelle spectrograph is a high-resolution echelle spectrograph installed on the 1.93m reflector telescope at the Haute-Provence Observatory located in south-eastern France...
, French astronomical instrument - Sophie PrizeSophie PrizeThe Sophie Prize is an international environment and development prize and is awarded annually. It was established in 1997 by the Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder and his wife Siri Dannevig, and it is named after Gaarder's novel Sophie's World. An award ceremony is set for June 22 in Oslo, Norway...
, international environment and development prize - Sophie the GiraffeSophie the GiraffeSophie the Giraffe is a teether – a toy for teething babies to chew on – in the form of a 7-inch-high hevea rubber giraffe.- History :...
, a teething toy for babies - The Sophy, English Renaissance play