edgepedia

All articles starting with S

44,216 articles

Susan Collins

Susan Collins (born 1952), Maine's Republican U.S. senator since 1997 and chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, seeking a sixth term in 2026 against Democrat Troy Jackson in a toss-up race.

Susan Cooper

Susan Mary Cooper (born 1935) is a British-born American author of The Dark Is Rising, the five-book fantasy sequence that won the 1976 Newbery Medal for The Grey King and a 1974 Newbery Honor, plus the World Fantasy Award (2013) and SFWA Grand Master honor (2024).

Susan Coppersmith

Susan Coppersmith is an American theoretical condensed matter physicist who works on glasses, granular materials, and silicon quantum computing, and heads the School of Physics at UNSW Sydney.

Susan D. Emmett

Susan D. Emmett is an American otolaryngologist and physician-scientist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, known for trials showing telemedicine referral doubles follow-up hearing care for rural children.

Susan D. Iversen

Susan D. Iversen (1940–2025) was a British neuropsychopharmacologist who worked at Cambridge, directed behavioral pharmacology at Merck Sharp & Dohme, and led Oxford's psychology department.

Susan D. Shaw

Susan D. Shaw was an American environmental health scientist who founded the Marine Environmental Research Institute in Maine in 1990 and studied flame retardants in seals.

Susan D. Wigenton

Susan D. Wigenton is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of New Jersey since 2006, appointed by President George W. Bush.

Susan Dey

Susan Dey (born Susan Hallock Dey, 1952, Pekin, Illinois) is a retired American actress who played Laurie Partridge on The Partridge Family (1970–74) and Grace Van Owen on L.A. Law (1986–92).

Susan Doerr

Susan Doerr (Susan Elizabeth Doerr-Brodsky, 1945–1972), American swimmer for Vesper Boat Club; 1960 Olympian at 15 in the winning US 4x100 m freestyle relay, and 100 m butterfly world record holder (1:08.2, 1961–1962).

Susan Dorsch

Susan Evelyn Dorsch (1935–2026) was an Australian pathologist and transplantation immunologist who in 1983 became the first woman appointed to a Chair in the University of Sydney's Faculty of Medicine.

Susan Downey

Susan Downey (born 1973, Susan Nicole Levin) is an American film producer and president of Team Downey, the company she founded with Robert Downey Jr. in 2010; credits include Sherlock Holmes, Orphan, Sweet Tooth, Perry Mason, and The Sympathizer.

Susan E. Dorman

Susan E. Dorman is an American infectious diseases physician and tuberculosis researcher at the Medical University of South Carolina who led the trial producing the first four-month TB treatment regimen.

Susan E. Mango

Susan E. Mango is a developmental biologist and professor at the University of Basel who studies how organs form in the nematode C. elegans, and a 2008 MacArthur Fellow.

Susan E. Quaggin

Susan E. Quaggin is a Canadian nephrologist and physician-scientist, Chair of Medicine at Northwestern University and president of the American Society of Nephrology in 2021 and 2022.

Susan Egan

Susan Egan (Susan Farrell Egan, born 1970, Seal Beach, California) is an American actress and singer, the original Belle in Broadway's Beauty and the Beast (1994 Tony and Drama Desk nominations), the voice of Megara in Hercules and Rose Quartz in Steven Universe, and a 2026 Disney Legend.

Susan Faludi

Susan Faludi, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and feminist author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (1991), Stiffed, The Terror Dream, and the Kirkus Prize memoir In the Darkroom.

Susan Ferro‐Novick

Susan Ferro-Novick is an American cell biologist at UC San Diego known for identifying the TRAPP complex that tethers vesicles between the ER and Golgi.

Susan Flannery

Susan Flannery (born 1939 or 1940) is an American actress and director, four-time Daytime Emmy winner, known as Stephanie Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful (1987-2012) and as Laura Horton on Days of Our Lives.

Susan Foreman

Susan Foreman is the Doctor's granddaughter and first companion in Doctor Who, introduced at Coal Hill School in 1963, played by Carole Ann Ford, departing in The Dalek Invasion of Earth and returning in anniversary appearances through 2025.

Susan Francia

Susan Francia (Zsuzsanna Francia, born 1982, Szeged, Hungary) is an American rower with Olympic gold in the women's eight at Beijing 2008 and London 2012, five World Championship titles, and mother Katalin Karikó, the 2023 Nobel laureate.

Susan G. Komen for the Cure

Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the trade name of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, is a Dallas-based breast cancer nonprofit founded in 1982 by Nancy Brinker, known for Race for the Cure, the pink ribbon, and the 2012 Planned Parenthood funding reversal.

Susan Gasser

Susan M. Gasser (born 1955) is a Swiss molecular biologist known for research on chromatin organization and genome stability, and director of the Friedrich Miescher Institute from 2004 to 2019.

Susan Gelman

Susan Gelman is a developmental psychologist at the University of Michigan whose research shows that young children assume categories have hidden underlying realities, a view called psychological essentialism.

Susan George (actress)

Susan George, British actress (full name Susan Melody George), born 1950 in Surbiton, best known as Amy in Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs (1971) opposite Dustin Hoffman; later an Arabian horse breeder, producer, and charity founder, appointed MBE in 2026.

Susan Glasser

Susan B. Glasser, American journalist, New Yorker staff writer, "Letter from Trump's Washington" columnist, Political Scene podcast host; former editor of Politico and Foreign Policy; co-author with Peter Baker of Kremlin Rising, The Man Who Ran Washington, and The Divider.

Susan Goldin-Meadow

Susan Goldin-Meadow is an American developmental psychologist at the University of Chicago, known for showing that deaf children without language input create structured gesture systems.

Susan Gottesman

Susan Gottesman is an American molecular geneticist at the National Cancer Institute who helped found two fields of bacterial gene regulation, controlled proteolysis and small regulatory RNAs.

Susan Gower Smith

Susan Gower Smith was an American medical researcher, a nutrition research assistant at Duke University, who published on vitamin deficiency, pellagra, and periodic paralysis, and co-authored with her husband David Tillerson Smith.

Susan Graber

Susan Graber, born 1949, is a senior US circuit judge on the Ninth Circuit appointed by Clinton in 1998, after serving on Oregon's Supreme Court.

Susan Greenfield

Susan Greenfield is a British neuroscientist whose research on acetylcholinesterase led her to found Neuro-Bio in 2013, and who directed the Royal Institution from 1998 to 2010.