Sonia Mary Cole (née Syers)[1] (1918 – 1982) was an English geologist, archaeologist, anthropologist and author.
Cole worked for the British Museum, and conducted extensive fieldwork in Africa.
She was a close friend and colleague of Mary Leakey, who wrote her obituary.
[3] David Lowry Cole, 6th Earl of Enniskillen (1918–1989) was divorced from his first wife Sonia in 1955.
[4] Cole is most remembered for her work Races of Man, which drew heavily from Carleton Coon.