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Susan H. Black
Susan Harrell Black, born 1943, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit since 2011.
Susan Hajaran Tousi
Susan Hajaran Tousi is an American bioengineering executive elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018, known for leading genome-sequencing products at Illumina before becoming CEO of DELFI Diagnostics.
Susan Hampshire
Susan Hampshire (Lady Kulukundis), born 12 May 1937 in Kensington, London, is an English actress and three-time Emmy winner for The Forsyte Saga, The First Churchills, and Vanity Fair, known for dyslexia advocacy and her 2025 return in The Forsytes.
Susan Hanson
Susan Hanson is an American urban geographer, Professor Emerita at Clark University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2000 for her work on travel and gender.
Susan Harbison
Susan Harbison is an American biologist who studies the genetics of sleep in fruit flies as a Senior Investigator at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, and received the 2012 PECASE award.
Susan Harris
Susan Harris, born Susan Spivak in 1940, is an American television comedy writer and producer best known for creating Soap and The Golden Girls, and also Benson and Empty Nest.
Susan Hayward
Susan Hayward (Edythe Marrenner, 1917–1975), American film actress and 1959 Best Actress Oscar winner for I Want to Live!, with five nominations, a 1956 Cannes acting prize, and a Georgia farm later in life.
Susan Heyward
Susan Heyward (born 1982) is an American actress known for playing Deena Pilgrim on Powers, Tamika Ward on Orange Is the New Black, and Sister Sage on The Boys.
Susan Hill
Dame Susan Hill (born 1942) is an English novelist, author of I'm the King of the Castle, Strange Meeting, and the ghost story The Woman in Black, staged in the West End for decades; she won the Whitbread, Somerset Maugham, and John Llewellyn Rhys prizes and a 2020 damehood.
Susan Howard
Susan Howard (Jeri Lynn Mooney), American actress from Marshall, Texas; Mara on Star Trek's 'Day of the Dove', Maggie Petrocelli on Petrocelli, and Donna Culver Krebbs on Dallas 1979–1987.
Susan Howe
Susan Howe, born in Boston in 1937, is an American poet and scholar associated with Language writing whose work draws on early American history and archives.
Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson
Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson (1830–1913), Emily Dickinson's sister-in-law and closest reader, received nearly 500 writings from the poet, wrote her obituary, began editing her first volume, and was marginalized by Mabel Loomis Todd's rival edition.
Susan Island
Susan Island: name shared by several islands, chiefly a rainforest river island in the Clarence River at Grafton, NSW, Australia, and an official island in the Coast Land District, British Columbia; also islands in Guyana, the Philippines, and New York.
Susan J. Curry
Susan J. Curry is an American health behavior scientist at the University of Iowa known for tobacco cessation research and chairing the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
Susan J. Dlott
Susan J. Dlott, born 1949 in Dayton, Ohio, is a senior federal district judge in Ohio, appointed by Bill Clinton in 1995 and chief judge from 2009 to 2015.
Susan J. Eggers
Susan J. Eggers is an American computer architect who developed simultaneous multithreading, adopted by Intel as Hyper-Threading, during her faculty career at the University of Washington.
Susan J. Fisher
Susan J. Fisher, also known as Susan Fisher, is an American reproductive biologist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco who studies placental biology.
Susan K. Buchanan
Susan K. Buchanan is an American structural biologist at the National Institutes of Health who determined structures of bacterial outer membrane proteins, including BamA, and received a 2002 PECASE award.
Susan K. DeClercq
Susan Kim DeClercq, born in Seoul in 1974, is a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, appointed by President Biden in 2023.
Susan K. Dutcher
Susan K. Dutcher is an American geneticist at Washington University School of Medicine known for her research on cilia and flagella using the alga Chlamydomonas.
Susan K. McConnell
Susan K. McConnell is a neuroscientist who studies cerebral cortex development and has been a Stanford professor since 1989, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.
Susan Kiefel
Susan Mary Kiefel AC KC (born 1954, Cairns) is the Australian jurist who served as the first female Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia (2017 to 2023) after becoming its third female Justice in 2007 and Queensland's first female Queen's Counsel.
Susan Kieffer
Susan Kieffer is an American geologist and planetary scientist at the University of Illinois, known for the Kieffer model of mineral heat capacities and studies of eruptions and impacts.
Susan Kohner
Susan Kohner (born 1936) is an American retired actress, daughter of agent Paul Kohner and actress Lupita Tovar, Oscar-nominated as Sarah Jane in Imitation of Life (1959), retired from acting after marrying John Weitz in 1964.
Susan L. Ackerman
Susan L. Ackerman is an American neuroscientist, the Stephen Kuffler Professor at UC San Diego and an HHMI Investigator since 2005, known for mouse genetics showing that transfer RNA defects cause neurodegeneration.
Susan L. Brantley
Susan L. Brantley, also published as Susan Brantley, is an American aqueous geochemist who spent nearly 40 years at Penn State studying chemical weathering and the critical zone.
Susan L. Carney
Susan L. Carney, born 1951, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit since 2022.
Susan L. Cutter
Susan L. Cutter is an American geographer and hazards scientist at the University of South Carolina, creator of the Social Vulnerability Index used in disaster planning.
Susan L. Furth
Susan L. Furth is an American pediatric nephrologist and epidemiologist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia who has led the CKiD study since 2003 and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023.
Susan L. Graham
Susan L. Graham is an American computer scientist and emerita professor at UC Berkeley, the first woman professor in Berkeley Engineering, known for Berkeley Pascal and the gprof profiler.