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Suffolk County, New York
Suffolk County, New York, is a county occupying the eastern two-thirds of Long Island, established in 1683, with its county seat at Riverhead and roughly 1.5 million residents.
Suffolk Punch
Suffolk Punch (Suffolk Horse): British heavy draught breed from East Anglia, dating to the 16th century; all trace to Crisp's Horse of Ufford (1768); always chesnut, no feather; critically endangered, under 500 in the UK.
Suffolk sheep
Suffolk sheep: black-faced British meat breed from Norfolk Horn ewes crossed with Southdown rams, first recorded 1797; leading terminal sire in UK, Ireland, and US, known for rapid lamb growth.
Suffolk Technologies
Suffolk Technologies is a Boston venture capital firm affiliated with Suffolk, a $5 billion national construction firm, investing in construction, real estate, and infrastructure technology startups since 2019.
Suffolk, Virginia
Suffolk, Virginia: independent city in Hampton Roads, largest Virginia city by land area (430 sq mi) after the 1974 merger with Nansemond County; population 104,699 (2025 est.), historic peanut and Planters company center.
Suffrage
Suffrage, also called the franchise (Latin suffragium), is the right to vote in elections. Article covers its definition, US/UK legal basis, historical expansion from property tests to universal adult suffrage, remaining exclusions, and scholarly debates.
Suffrage art and visual iconography
Suffrage art and visual iconography is the visual material of women's suffrage movements, including the WSPU's purple, white, and green colors, banners, badges, and postcards.
Suffrage drama and pageantry
Suffrage drama and pageantry is the body of plays and pageants created by women's suffrage movements in Britain and the United States from 1907 onward.
Suffragette
Suffragette: militant British women's-suffrage activists, mainly WSPU members under Emmeline Pankhurst, labeled by the Daily Mail in 1906; 'deeds not words' tactics, hunger strikes, 1918 partial and 1928 equal franchise.
Suffragette (film)
Suffragette is Sarah Gavron's 2015 historical drama, written by Abi Morgan, starring Carey Mulligan as fictional laundry worker Maud Watts drawn into the militant WSPU, with Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst; it premiered at Telluride, earned £35m, and drew controversy over casting and Pankhurst T-shirts.
Sufi Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum
Sufi Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum (صوفی غلام مصطفیٰ تبسم; 1899–1978) was a Pakistani poet, teacher, and translator in Punjabi, Urdu, and Persian who created the children's character Tot Batot.
Sufi kalam (music genre)
Sufi kalam is the devotional song repertoire of South Asian Sufism, sung above all as the Punjabi kafi, with core poets Shah Hussain, Bulleh Shah, and Khwaja Ghulam Farid.
Sufi metaphysics
Sufi metaphysics: the theoretical doctrines of Islamic mysticism (taṣawwuf) on being, God, and the soul's return. Centered on waḥdat al-wujūd (Unity of Being) of Ibn ʿArabī, opposed by waḥdat al-shuhūd of Sirhindī, and systematized by Mullā Ṣadrā.
Sufi poetry
Sufi poetry (الشعر الصوفي) is poetry from the Islamic mystical tradition expressing divine love, longing, and union with God through symbolic language like wine imagery.
Sufi whirling
Sufi whirling, also known as Sufi Dance, is the ceremonial turning practiced in Sufism, most famously in the Mevlevi sema, where dervishes rotate as prayer.
Sufia Kamal
Sufia Kamal (সুফিয়া কামাল, 1911–1999) was a Bangladeshi poet and feminist who led the women's rights movement and was the first Bangladeshi woman buried with state honors.
Sufism
Sufism, known in Arabic as tasawwuf, is the inner, spiritual dimension of Islam rather than a separate sect, organized in brotherhoods called tariqas and centered on dhikr, the repetitive invocation of God's names.
Sufism in India
Sufism in India is the South Asian expression of Islamic mysticism, brought by Khwaja Moin-ud-din Chishti, who settled in Ajmer in the late 12th century.
Sufiya Sufi
Sufiya Sufi (Sufiya Sufi Runner), Indian ultramarathoner from Ajmer, Rajasthan; holds five Guinness World Records including fastest Manali to Leh (430 km in 98h 27m, 2023) and Golden Quadrilateral (6,002 km in 110 days, 2021).
Sufiyum Sujatayum (സൂഫിയും സുജാതയും)
Sufiyum Sujatayum (സൂഫിയും സുജാതയും), also spelled Sufiyum Sujathayum, is a 2020 Malayalam romantic musical drama by Naranipuzha Shanavas starring Jayasurya, Aditi Rao Hydari, and Dev Mohan; the first Malayalam direct OTT release, on Amazon Prime Video, 3 July 2020.
Sufjan Stevens
Sufjan Stevens, born 1975 in Detroit, is an American indie singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Known for Illinois, Carrie & Lowell, Asthmatic Kitty Records, his Oscar-nominated Mystery of Love, and 2023's Javelin.
Sufriyya
The Sufriyya (الصفرية) was a Kharijite sect of early Islam, formed at Basra around 683 and active in Iraq and North Africa, where Berber adherents founded the Midrarid state of Sijilmasa.
Sufyan al-Thawri
Sufyan al-Thawri (سفيان الثوري) was a Kufan hadith scholar, jurist, and ascetic who refused a judgeship from the Abbasid caliphs and died in hiding in Basra in 778.
Sufyan ibn Uyayna
Sufyan ibn Uyayna (سفيان بن عيينة) was a Meccan hadith scholar and Quran commentator who transmitted more than 7,000 hadiths and taught al-Shafi'i and Ahmad ibn Hanbal.
Sufyan Moqim
Sufyan Moqim (Sufiyan Muqeem), born 2002, is a Pakistani left-arm wrist spinner. T20I debut 2023 Asian Games; 5/3 vs Zimbabwe 2024; PSL 2026 Player of the Tournament with Peshawar Zalmi.
Sufyani (السفياني)
The Sufyani (السفياني) is an eschatological figure in Islamic tradition, a tyrant foretold to rise in Syria shortly before the end times and oppress the faithful.
Suga (민윤기)
Suga (민윤기, born 1993) is the stage name of Min Yoon-gi, BTS rapper-producer and solo artist Agust D (Agust D, D-2, D-DAY); 160+ KOMCA credits, discharged from mandatory service June 21, 2025, and donor of the Min Yoongi Center.
Suga Free
Suga Free (Sugafree), American West Coast rapper born 1970, based in Pomona, California, once known as Royal Rock; debut Street Gospel (1997), produced by DJ Quik, reached No. 37 on the Billboard R&B chart and shaped later rappers including Kendrick Lamar.
Suga Shikao
Suga Shikao (スガ シカオ) is a Japanese singer-songwriter born in Tokyo in 1966 who debuted in 1997, known for his distinctive funk style and for writing SMAP's "夜空ノムコウ".
Sugababes
Sugababes: English pop trio formed in London in 1998 (Keisha Buchanan, Mutya Buena, Siobhán Donaghy), aka MKS. Six UK No. 1 singles across four lineups; original trio regained the name in 2019.