People
- Sao civilisation or So, African civilisation and population that flourished from ca. the 6th century to ca. 15th century
- So, the romanization of various East Asian surnames:
- So, a Cantonese romanization of the Chinese surname 苏/蘇 (Su)
- So, Korean surname 소(蘇), also derived from Chinese surname Su
- So, Korean surname 소(邵), also derived from Chinese surname Siu, or Shao
- Sō, Japanese surname 曹 in Kanji, Cao/Cho in other state
- "s/o", short for "son of", frequently used by those without surnames in India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia and elsewhere (where "a/l", the Malay translation, is used) - e.g. Muthusamy s/o Rajendran. "d/o" ("a/p" in Malaysia) is used for daughters
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