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Susanna M. Lewis
Susanna M. Lewis is an immunologist known for her work on V(D)J recombination, the DNA rearrangement that assembles antigen receptor genes in T and B cells.
Susanna M. Salter
Susanna Madora Salter (1860-1961), called Dora, first woman mayor in the United States, elected Argonia, Kansas, April 4, 1887, after men placed her name on the ballot as a prank; she won two-thirds of the vote.
Susanna Moore
Susanna Moore, American novelist and memoirist born 1945/1946 in Hawaii, author of My Old Sweetheart, the 1995 erotic thriller In the Cut (filmed by Jane Campion), and the 2020 memoir Miss Aluminum.
Susanna Reid
Susanna Reid, born 1970, is an English television presenter and journalist, lead presenter of ITV's Good Morning Britain since 2014 after a decade on BBC Breakfast.
Susanna Thompson
Susanna Thompson (born 1958, San Diego) is an American actress known as the Borg Queen on Star Trek: Voyager, Karen Sammler on Once and Again, Moira Queen on Arrow, and Queen Rose Benjamin on Kings.
Susannah Cahalan
Susannah Cahalan, American journalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire (2012), about her anti-NMDA-receptor encephalitis; also The Great Pretender (2019) and The Acid Queen (2025).
Susannah Constantine
Susannah Constantine (born 1962), English fashion stylist, TV presenter and author, co-host of BBC's What Not to Wear (2001–2005) with Trinny Woodall; later ITV shows, Strictly 2018, and the 2022 memoir Ready for Absolutely Nothing.
Susannah Corbett
Susannah Jane Corbett (born 1968) is an English actress and author, daughter of Steptoe and Son actor Harry H. Corbett; known for Ellie Pascoe in BBC's Dalziel and Pascoe, Peak Practice, and her 2012 biography The Front Legs of the Cow.
Susannah Fielding
Susannah Fielding (born 1985, Poole, Dorset) is an English stage and screen actress, Ian Charleson Award winner for Portia in The Merchant of Venice, best known as Jennie Gresham in This Time with Alan Partridge and as Roxane in the RSC's Cyrano de Bergerac.
Susannah Harker
Susannah Harker (born 1965, London; birth name Susannah M. Owens) is an English actress known for Mattie Storin in House of Cards (1990), BAFTA-nominated, and Jane Bennet in the 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice.
Susannah McCorkle
Susannah McCorkle (January 1, 1946 – May 19, 2001) was an American jazz and cabaret singer from Berkeley, California, who recorded 17 albums, notably for Concord Jazz, was celebrated for lyrical interpretation of the Great American Songbook and Brazilian songs, won three Stereo Review awards, and died by suicide in New York.
Susannah Melvoin
Susannah Melvoin is an American singer and songwriter, known for her role as Prince's partner and vocalist in The Family. She co-wrote "Starfish and Coffee" in 1987.
Susannah Mushatt Jones
Susannah Mushatt Jones (1899–2016), American supercentenarian, world's oldest validated living person from June 2015 to May 2016 at 116 years, 311 days; last surviving American born in the 1800s; GRG-validated.
Susannah Scott
Susannah L. Scott, born in Tokyo in 1967, is a chemist and Distinguished Professor at UC Santa Barbara known for catalytically upcycling waste polyethylene into detergent-range alkylaromatics.
Susannah Townsend
Susannah Townsend, born 1989 in London, is a retired English field hockey midfielder (Canterbury HC) who won Olympic gold at Rio 2016 and bronze at Tokyo 2020 with Great Britain, earning 188 caps and an MBE.
Susannah York
Susannah York (Susannah Yolande Fletcher, 1939-2011), British film and stage actress of Tom Jones, They Shoot Horses Don't They? (BAFTA, Oscar nomination), Images (Cannes Best Actress), and Superman's Lara.
Susanne Bier
Susanne Bier, born 1960 in Copenhagen, is a Danish director of Dogme film Open Hearts, Brothers, and After the Wedding; her In a Better World won the 2011 Oscar and Golden Globe, and she won an Emmy for The Night Manager.
Susanne Börnike
Susanne Börnike (born 1968, Brandenburg an der Havel), East German breaststroke swimmer; ninth in the 200 m breaststroke at Seoul 1988, 1989 European champion, short-course 200 m breaststroke world record holder 2:22.92, and a victim of the GDR state doping program.
Susanne Craig
Susanne Craig, Canadian investigative reporter at The New York Times (formerly Globe and Mail, Wall Street Journal), 2019 Pulitzer winner for Trump finances reporting, co-author of Lucky Loser, Order of Canada member.
Susanne Grainger
Susanne Grainger (Susanne Wereley), Canadian rower born 1990, in London, Ontario; Olympic gold medallist in the women's eight at Tokyo 2020, fifth at Rio 2016, retired November 2021.
Susanne Klatten
Susanne Klatten, born Susanne Hanna Ursula Quandt in 1962, is a German billionaire heiress who owns about a fifth of BMW and is often called Germany's richest woman.
Susanne Mandrup
Susanne Mandrup is a Danish molecular biologist and professor of biochemistry at the University of Southern Denmark who studies transcriptional networks regulating metabolism and adipocyte differentiation in obesity.
Susanne Munk Lauritsen
Susanne Munk Lauritsen (Susanne Munk Wilbek), born 1967 in Hvorslev, is a Danish handball goalkeeper, 171-cap international, 1996 Olympic and 1997 world champion with Viborg HK, now Viborg assistant and goalkeeper coach.
Susanne Nielsson
Susanne Nielsson, born 1960 in Aarhus, is a Danish breaststroke swimmer who won bronze in the 100 m at the 1980 Moscow Olympics and the 1978 World Championships.
Susanne S. Renner
Susanne S. Renner is a German botanist who led the Munich Botanical Garden and herbaria from 2003 to 2020 and studies plant sexual systems and crop origins.
Susanne V. Hering
Susanne V. Hering is an American aerosol scientist who founded Aerosol Dynamics Inc. in Berkeley, California, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020.
Susanne Wenger
Susanne Wenger, also known as Adunni Olorisha, was an Austrian-born artist and Yoruba priestess who spent over fifty years building shrines in the Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Susanne Wiberg Gunnarsson
Susanne Wiberg Gunnarsson (Linnea Susanne Wiberg-Gunnarsson), Swedish kayak sprint and marathon canoeist born 1963 in Örebro; 1996 Olympic K2 500 m gold with Agneta Andersson, two Olympic silvers, nine sprint and six marathon world medals.
Susanoo-no-Mikoto
Susanoo-no-Mikoto (須佐之男命, 素戔嗚尊) is the Shinto storm and sea god, brother of Amaterasu, exiled from heaven, who slew the eight-headed serpent Yamata no Orochi in Izumo with sake and took the sword Kusanagi from its tail.
Susanthika Jayasinghe (සුසන්තිකා ජයසිංහ)
Susanthika Jayasinghe (සුසන්තිකා ජයසිංහ), born 1975, Sri Lankan sprinter; 2000 Sydney 200m silver (upgraded from bronze after Marion Jones's doping disqualification), 1997 world silver, national records 11.04 and 22.28.