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Susan Ann Sulley

Susan Ann Sulley (born 1963, Sheffield), also Susan Anne Gayle, is an English singer who joined The Human League in 1980 after Phil Oakey saw her dancing at the Crazy Daisy club; she sings co-lead on "Don't You Want Me" and remains in the band's core trio.

Susan Anspach

Susan Anspach (1942–2018), American stage and film actress of 1970s New Hollywood, known for Five Easy Pieces, Play It Again, Sam, Blume in Love, and Montenegro; died in Los Angeles at 75.

Susan Anton

Susan Anton is an American singer and actress known for her 1979 film Goldengirl, her Top Ten country hit Killin' Time, and her stage work in Hurlyburly.

Susan Athey

Susan Athey is an American economist at Stanford known for market design, machine learning, and causal inference, and winner of the 2007 John Bates Clark Medal.

Susan Atkins

Susan Denise Atkins (1948-2009), "Sadie Mae Glutz" in Charles Manson's Family, took part in the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders including Sharon Tate's killing, was sentenced to death in 1971 (commuted to life), and died of brain cancer after 38 years in prison.

Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906), American Quaker-born reformer and organizer for woman suffrage; NWSA co-founder, 1872 voting-arrest defendant, coeditor of History of Woman Suffrage; the Nineteenth Amendment was long called the Anthony Amendment.

Susan B. Anthony dollar

The Susan B. Anthony dollar is a US one-dollar coin first struck in 1979, the first small dollar coin and the first to honor a real woman.

Susan B. Hassmiller

Susan B. Hassmiller is an American nurse and health policy leader who spent nearly 25 years as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's senior adviser for nursing.

Susan Backlinie

Susan Backlinie (1946-2024), American actress and stuntwoman, played Chrissie Watkins, the shark's first victim in Jaws (1975); also a Weeki Wachee mermaid, animal trainer, and 1941 parody role.

Susan Ballabina

Susan Ballabina is an American academic administrator named the 28th president of Texas A&M University on May 6, 2026, after three decades in the Texas A&M System, including executive vice chancellor, AgriLife deputy vice chancellor, and chief of staff to Mark Welsh.

Susan Band Horwitz

Susan Band Horwitz is an American molecular pharmacologist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine known for defining how the anticancer drug Taxol stabilizes microtubules, work honored with the 2019 Canada Gairdner International Award.

Susan Barrantes

Susan Barrantes, born Susan Mary Wright, was an English documentary film producer known as the mother of Sarah, Duchess of York; she died in Argentina in 1998.

Susan Bay

Susan Bay Nimoy (born 1943), credited as Susan Bay, is an American actress, TV and documentary director, producer, and arts philanthropist. Known for The Big Mouth, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the DGA Original Six women directors of 1979, and the 2018 Sundance short Eve.

Susan Bennett

Susan Bennett (born 1949, Burlington, Vermont) is an American voice actress and singer, the original American English voice of Apple's Siri, recorded in July 2005 for ScanSoft and identified publicly in 2013 via CNN; Apple never confirmed her.

Susan Berman

Susan Berman was an American journalist and author, best known for her memoir Easy Street and being murdered in 2000, for which Robert Durst was convicted in 2021.

Susan Blackmore

Susan Blackmore is a British psychologist and writer at the University of Plymouth who left parapsychology after finding no evidence of psi, then wrote The Meme Machine (1999).

Susan Blakely

Susan Blakely (born 1948, Frankfurt, Germany) is the American actress and former Ford model who won the 1977 Golden Globe for Rich Man, Poor Man, played Patty in The Towering Inferno and Frances Farmer in Will There Really Be a Morning? Distinct from the Intertek Alchemy executive of the same name.

Susan Bonner‐Weir

Susan Bonner-Weir is a diabetes researcher, Senior Investigator at Joslin Diabetes Center and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, known for work on beta-cell regeneration and beta-cell senescence.

Susan Boyle

Susan Boyle (Susan Magdalane Boyle, born 1961, Blackburn, Scotland), Scottish singer whose 2009 Britain's Got Talent audition of "I Dreamed a Dream" went viral; over 25 million albums sold, UK record debut album, 2013 autism and 2022 stroke disclosures.

Susan Buffett

Susan Thompson Buffett (1932-2004), first wife of Warren Buffett, philanthropist, Berkshire Hathaway director, and president of the Buffett Foundation, renamed the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation after her death in Cody, Wyoming.

Susan Bysiewicz

Susan Bysiewicz is an American Democratic politician serving as Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut since 2019 as Ned Lamont's running mate, and previously served as Secretary of the State from 1999 to 2011.

Susan C. Bucklew

Susan C. Bucklew, born in 1942 in Tampa, Florida, is a United States district judge for the Middle District of Florida, appointed by Bill Clinton in 1993.

Susan C. Lee

Susan C. Lee is an American Democratic politician and attorney serving as Maryland's Secretary of State since 2023, the first Asian American in the role, after over 20 years in the Maryland General Assembly.

Susan C. Scrimshaw

Susan C. Scrimshaw (born 1945) is an American medical anthropologist who, with her father Nevin S. Scrimshaw, became the National Academy of Medicine's first father/daughter members in 1993.

Susan Cabot

Susan Cabot (Harriet Pearl Shapiro) was an American film, stage, and television actress, best remembered for the low-budget Roger Corman pictures she made between 1957 and 1959.

Susan Calman

Susan Calman (born 1974, Glasgow) is a Scottish stand-up comedian, writer and broadcaster, ex-corporate lawyer, Scottish Bafta winner for Blowout, Strictly 2017 contestant, host of Grand Day Out and Cruising With Susan Calman.

Susan Carey

Susan Carey is an American developmental psychologist known for her work on innate foundations of human knowledge and conceptual change in children, author of The Origin of Concepts.

Susan Carland

Susan Carland (Susan Janet Carland), Australian sociologist of religion at Monash University, author of Fighting Hislam (2016), converted to Islam at 19, studies Muslim women, feminism, and Islamophobia, and is married to Waleed Aly.

Susan Chepkemei

Susan Chepkemei, born 1975, Kenyan long-distance runner; 2001 Rotterdam Marathon winner, three-time World Half Marathon silver medallist, Commonwealth 10,000m silver, and nine World Cross Country medals.

Susan Clark

Susan Clark (Nora Golding) is a Canadian actress born in Sarnia, Ontario, known for Coogan's Bluff, the Emmy-winning Babe (1975), and the sitcom Webster with husband Alex Karras.