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Suddenly, Last Summer (film)

Suddenly, Last Summer is a 1959 Columbia Pictures drama directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, and Montgomery Clift, adapted by Gore Vidal from Tennessee Williams's one-act play about a lobotomy plot concealing a cousin's cannibalistic death.

Śuddhodana

Śuddhodana, also known as King Suddhodana (净饭王), was the father of Siddhārtha Gautama, the future Buddha, and the leader of the Śākya clan at Kapilavastu, near the present Nepal–India border.

Suddilage Kathawa

Suddilage Kathawa (සුද්දිලාගේ කතාව, "Suddi's Story") is a Sinhala novel by Simon Navagattegama, set in a dry-zone village and filmed in 1985 by Dharmasiri Bandaranayake.

Sudebnik of 1497

The Sudebnik of 1497 (Судебник 1497 года) is traditionally regarded as the first surviving law code of the unified Russian state, adopted in September 1497 by Grand Prince Ivan III of Moscow.

Sudebnik of 1550

The Sudebnik of 1550 (Судебник 1550 года), also called the Tsar's Sudebnik, is the law code of the Russian state, prepared in June 1550 under Tsar Ivan IV.

Sudeep Bhoja

Sudeep Bhoja is a semiconductor engineer who co-founded d-Matrix, a Santa Clara, California AI chip company, in 2019, serving as chief technology officer and chief architect of its Corsair accelerator.

Sudeepa (ಸುದೀಪ್ ಸಂಜೀವ್)

Sudeepa, born Sudeep Sanjeev (ಸುದೀಪ್ ಸಂಜೀವ್) in 1973, is an Indian actor known as Kichcha Sudeep who works primarily in Kannada cinema and hosted Bigg Boss Kannada from 2013.

Sudeley Castle

Sudeley Castle is a 15th-century castle near Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, best known as the home and burial place of Queen Katherine Parr, and the only private castle in England with a queen buried in its grounds.

Sudenitsa Tesserae

Sudenitsa Tesserae, a Venus tessera terrain feature (Slavic fate deities), centered at 33°N 270°E, 4,200 km across; known for elevation-dependent radar emissivity, ferroelectric mineral suggestions, and preserved impact-ejecta fines.

Süderbrarup

Süderbrarup (Danish: Sønder Brarup), municipality in Angeln, Schleswig-Holstein, seat of the Amt Süderbrarup. Home of the Thorsberger Moor Iron Age war-booty sacrifice, a 1,200-urn marketplace urnfield, the Kummerhy mound, and the Brarup-Markt funfair.

Sudesh Mahto

Sudesh Mahto is an Indian politician who leads the All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU) Party, served as Deputy Chief Minister of Jharkhand, and represented Silli four times.

Sudest Island

Sudest Island, also Tagula or Vanatinai, is the largest island of the Louisiade Archipelago, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea; home of the Sudest (Tagula) language and site of the 1888 Australian gold rush.

Sudeten German Party

Sudeten German Party (Sudetendeutsche Partei, SdP), founded by Konrad Henlein in 1933 as the Heimatfront; far-right party of Czechoslovakia's German minority that won the 1935 election, issued the 1938 Carlsbad Program, and served Nazi Germany's dismemberment of Czechoslovakia.

Sudeten Germans

Sudeten Germans (Sudetendeutsche), ethnic Germans of Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia; about 3 million in interwar Czechoslovakia, annexed to Germany in 1938, and almost entirely expelled from Czechoslovakia in 1945-46.

Sudetenland

Sudetenland: German-speaking borderlands of Czechoslovakia, annexed by Nazi Germany under the Munich Agreement of 29 September 1938; organized as Reichsgau Sudetenland under Konrad Henlein, dismembered context, postwar expulsion of about 3 million Germans.

Sudetes

The Sudetes are a Central European mountain range, about 300 km long, across Czechia, Poland, and Germany; a rejuvenated Variscan orogen whose highest range, the Krkonoše, hosts the world's first transboundary UNESCO biosphere reserve.

Sudev Nair

Sudev Nair (born 1985, Mumbai) is an Indian actor, director, and writer; Kerala State Film Award Best Actor winner for My Life Partner (2014), creator of Not Fit, lead of Kammattam, and Karmadi in Toxic (2026).

Sudha Chandran

Sudha Chandran, Indian Bharatanatyam dancer and film/TV actress; lost her right leg to gangrene after a 1981 accident, returned to dance on a Jaipur Foot, starred as herself in Mayuri (1985), and won the National Film Award Special Jury Award.

Sudha Murty

Sudha Murty, born 1950 in Karnataka, is an Indian author and philanthropist who founded the Infosys Foundation in 1996 and was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 2024.

Sudha Ramakrishnan

Sudha Ramakrishnan is an Indian National Congress politician and lawyer who has represented the Mayiladuthurai constituency of Tamil Nadu in the Lok Sabha since 2024.

Sudha Rani (ಸುಧಾರಾಣಿ)

Sudha Rani (ಸುಧಾರಾಣಿ), born Jayashree, is a Kannada film actress and dubbing artist; child artist in Kiladi Kittu, lead debut in Anand (1986) opposite Shivarajkumar, Karnataka State and Filmfare award winner.

Sudha Reddy

Sudha Reddy is an Indian businesswoman and philanthropist who serves as a director of Hyderabad infrastructure conglomerate Megha Engineering (MEIL) and chairs the Sudha Reddy Foundation.

Sudha Seshadri

Sudha Seshadri is a behavioral neurologist and founding director of the Glenn Biggs Institute at UT Health San Antonio, and a senior investigator at the Framingham Heart Study.

Sudhakar Singh (Bihar politician)

Sudhakar Singh, born 1976, is an Indian Rashtriya Janata Dal politician representing Buxar, Bihar, in the Lok Sabha since 2024, after serving as Bihar's agriculture minister and Ramgarh legislator.

Sudhamma Council

The Sudhamma Council was the council of senior Buddhist monks heading the Burmese kingdom's ecclesiastical administration, headed by the Thathanabaing and revived by King Mindon.

Sudhangshu Das

Sudhangshu Das is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician and Tripura minister for Scheduled Castes welfare, Animal Resource Development, and Fisheries, representing the Fatikroy constituency since 2018.

Sudhanshu Mani (सुधांशु मणि)

Sudhanshu Mani (सुधांशु मणि) is a retired Indian Railway Service officer who, as General Manager of the Integral Coach Factory, Chennai, led the creation of Train 18.

Sudhanshu Pandey (सुधांशु पांडे)

Sudhanshu Pandey (सुधांशु पांडे), born 1974, is an Indian actor, model, and singer, a member of A Band of Boys, Bollywood debut Khiladi 420 (2000), and Vanraj Shah in Anupamaa (2020–2024). Not the NASA scientist of the same name.

Sudhanshu Trivedi

Sudhanshu Trivedi (born 1970) is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party, a Rajya Sabha member from Uttar Pradesh and a national spokesperson of the party.

Sudhansu K. Dey

Sudhansu K. Dey is an American reproductive biologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, known for a landmark 1997 Cell paper showing COX-2 is essential for embryo implantation.