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Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ82583
Source-derived summary

Solo or SOLO may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Characters

Han Solo, a Star Wars character

Jacen Solo, a Jedi in the non-canonical Star Wars Legends continuity

Kylo Ren (Ben Solo), a Star Wars character

Napoleon Solo, from the TV spy series Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Sky Solo, from the comic book series 1963

Solo (Marvel Comics), a fictional counter-terrorism operative

Films

Solo (1970 film), directed by Jean-Pierre Mocky

Solo (1972 film), directed by Mike Hoover

Solo (1977 film), a New Zealand film

Solo (1984 film), starring Sandra Kerns

Solo (1996 film), a science fiction action film

Solo (2006 film), an Australian film written and directed by Morgan O'Neill

Solo (2008 film), an Australian documentary film directed by David Michod and Jennifer Peedom

Solo (2011 film), a Telugu-language film

Solo (2013 film), a Canadian thriller

Solo (2015 film), Uruguayan director Guillermo Rocamora's debut film

Solo (2017 film), a Tamil-Malayalam film directed by Bejoy Nambiar

Solo: A Star Wars Story, a 2018 Star Wars film featuring a young Han Solo

Solo (2018 Spanish film), a 2018 Spanish adventure film starring Aura Garrido

Solo (2022 film), a documentary film

Solo (2023 film), a drama film directed by Sophie Dupuis

Solos (film), a 2007 Singaporean drama film

Literature

Solo, a 1948 novel by Paul Tabori

Solo, a 1980 novel by Jack Higgins

Solo: An American Dreamer in Europe – 1933-34, a 1983 non-fiction book by Wright Morris

Solo, a 1992 novel by Jill Mansell

Solo (Mason novel), a 1992 science fiction novel by Robert Mason

Solo, a 1995 picture book by Paul Geraghty

Solos, a 2004 novel by Kitty Burns Florey

Atlantic Shift, a. k. a. Solo, a 2004 novel by Emily Barr

Solo: Writers on Pilgrimage, a 2004 anthology by Katherine Govier

Solo: My Adventure in the Air, a 2005 memoir by Clyde Edgerton

Solo, a 2007 novel by Alyssa Brugman

Solo, a 2009 novel by Rana Dasgupta

Solo (Boyd novel), a 2013 James Bond novel by William Boyd

Solo, a 2017 novel by Kwame Alexander with Mary Rand Hess

Solo: A Star Wars Story: Expanded Edition, a novelization of the 2018 Star Wars film by Mur Lafferty

Solo: A Star Wars Story: A Junior Novel, a 2018 junior novelization of the same film by Joe Schreiber

Music

Solo (music), a piece or section played or sung by a single performer

Groups

Solo (American band), an R&B group from New York City

Solo (Dutch band), a pop duo with Michiel Flamman and Simon Gitsels

Albums

Solo (Kai Winding album), 1963

Solo (Cecil Taylor album), 1973

Solo (Jimmy Raney album), 1976

Solo (Don McLean album), 1976

Solo (Kaipa album), 1978

Solo (Egberto Gismonti album), 1979

Solo (Opus album), 1985

Solo (Solo album), 1995 album by the American band

Solo (John Bunch album), 1996

Solo (Leroy Jenkins album), 1998

Solo (Hugh Cornwell album), 1999

Solo (Mulgrew Miller album), 2000

Solo (DC Talk album), 2001

Solo (Brian Harvey album), 2002

Solo (Oscar Peterson album), 2002

Solo (Michel Camilo album), 2004

Solo (Ricardo Arjona album), 2004

Solo (Gonzalo Rubalcaba album), 2005

Solo (António Pinho Vargas album), 2008

Solo: Live from San Francisco, a 2009 album by McCoy Tyner

Solo (Henry Grimes album), 2009

Solo (Vijay Iyer album), 2010

Solo (Tony Lucca album), 2011

Solo (Lynne Arriale album), 2012

Solo (Gordon Lightfoot album), 2020

Solo (Ultimo album), 2021

Solo (soundtrack), from the 2017 film

Solo (EP), a 2012 EP by Heo Young-saeng

Solo (Anitta EP), 2018

Solo: Reflections and Meditations on Monk, a 2017 album by Wadada Leo Smith

So-Lo, a 1984 Danny Elfman album

Solo 1: Standards, a 2001 album by pianist Franco D'Andrea

Solo 2: Abstractions, a 2001 album by pianist Franco D'Andrea

Solo 3: Woods, a 2001 album by pianist Franco D'Andrea

Solo 4: Gato, a 2001 album by pianist Franco D'Andrea

Solo 5: Duke, a 2001 album by pianist Franco D'Andrea

Solo 6: Valzer Opera Natale, a 2001 album by pianist Franco D'Andrea

Solo 7: Napoli, a 2001 album by pianist Franco D'Andrea

Solo 8: Classic Jazz, a 2001 album by pianist Franco D'Andrea

Solo 2.0, a 2011 album by Italian singer Marco Mengoni

Solo II, a 2009 album by Portuguese composer António Pinho Vargas

Solos (Matthew Friedberger album), a 2011 set of six albums

S.O.L.O., 1989 album by M. Nasir

Compositions

Solo (Stockhausen), composed in 1965–66 by Karlheinz Stockhausen

Solos, Op.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Solo” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Solo, Wikimedia and disambiguation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1963, 1970, 1972, 1977—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Solo, Wikimedia and disambiguation providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from Solo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.