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Su Dingfang

Su Dingfang (苏定方) was a Tang dynasty general who destroyed three states in succession, including the Western Turkic Khaganate and Baekje, capturing each ruler alive.

Su Excelencia

Su Excelencia (1966, released 1967) is a Mexican satirical comedy directed by Miguel M. Delgado starring Cantinflas as Lopitos, an embassy clerk of Los Cocos who becomes ambassador in Pepeslavia and holds the deciding vote between two Cold War blocs.

Su Fengji

Su Fengji (苏逢吉) was a chancellor of the Later Han dynasty during the Five Dynasties period, serving Emperor Gaozu and Emperor Yin; both histories condemn him as greedy and bloodthirsty.

Su From So

Su From So (ಸು ಫ್ರಮ್ ಸೊ), short for Sulochana from Someshwar, is a 2025 Kannada supernatural comedy-horror film directed by J. P. Thuminad and produced by Raj B Shetty.

Su Hua

Su Hua (宿华), born 1982, is a Chinese technology entrepreneur who co-founded Kuaishou, the Beijing short-video and live-streaming company, serving as its chief executive until 2021 and chairman until 2023.

Su Jian

Su Jian (苏建) was a Western Han general under Emperor Wu who served in Wei Qing's campaigns against the Xiongnu and was the father of Su Wu.

Su Kai (苏凯)

Su Kai (苏凯, Kevin Su) is a Chinese venture capital investor and Partner at HongShan, where he invests in the consumer sector; his deals include Pop Mart and Mingming Henmang.

Su Kasidesi

Su Kasidesi ("the Water Qasida") is a celebrated 32-couplet Ottoman Turkish ode by the 16th-century poet Fuzûlî praising the Prophet Muhammad, named for its repeated word su, water.

Su Manshu

Su Manshu (苏曼殊, 1884–1918) was a Chinese poet, novelist, translator, and Buddhist monk known for The Lone Wild Goose and translations of Byron and Hugo.

Su Mu Zhe: Blue Clouds

"Su Mu Zhe: Blue Clouds" (苏幕遮·怀旧), also titled "Parting Sorrow", is a 62-character ci lyric by Northern Song statesman Fan Zhongyan, a classic of autumn homesickness.

Su Nuraxi di Barumini (Italy)

Su Nuraxi di Barumini, Sardinia's only UNESCO World Heritage site (1997), is the pre-eminent nuraghe complex: a basalt dry-stone Bronze Age tower, four-towered bastion, and hut village occupied to the 3rd century CE.

Su Pollard

Su Pollard (born 1949, Nottingham) is an English actress and singer, best known as chalet maid Peggy Ollerenshaw in the BBC sitcom Hi-de-Hi! (1980–1988), with the 1986 UK number two hit "Starting Together".

Su Qin

Su Qin (蘇秦), courtesy name Jizi, was a Warring States political strategist from Luoyang who, per the Records of the Grand Historian, united six states against Qin and served as their chief minister.

Su Qin's Vertical Alliance

Su Qin's Vertical Alliance (苏秦合纵) is the traditional account of the strategist Su Qin uniting six states against Qin in 333 BC, now considered largely a later fabrication.

Su Qing (writer)

Su Qing (苏青, born Feng Heyi, 1914 or 1917 – 1982) was a Chinese novelist and essayist ranked alongside Zhang Ailing among the best-selling women writers of 1940s occupied Shanghai.

Su Qiqiang

Su Qiqiang (苏启强) is a Chinese software entrepreneur who co-founded the accounting software firm Yonyou with Wang Wenjing in Beijing in 1988, then founded Federal Software in 1994.

Su Ryon Shin

Su Ryon Shin is a biomedical engineer and Assistant Professor at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, known for conductive hydrogels, biosensors, and biohybrid robots.

Su Shi

Su Shi (苏轼), also known as Su Dongpo, was a Song dynasty statesman and writer who rose to Hanlin Academician and was twice exiled in the factional struggles of his age.

Su Shi's circle

Su Shi's circle (蘇門, the Su gate) was the literary group around Northern Song poet Su Shi, centered on the Four Scholars and peaking in the Yuanyou era (1086–1094).

Su Shunqin

Su Shunqin (苏舜钦, 1008–1048), courtesy name Zimei, was a Song dynasty poet, calligrapher, and official who built Suzhou's Canglang Pavilion, the city's oldest extant classical garden.

Su Shunqin Jinyuan院 case

The Su Shunqin Jinyuan院 case was a 1044 Song dynasty scandal in which official Su Shunqin was dismissed for funding a feast with proceeds from sold scrap paper.

Su Song

Su Song (苏颂), courtesy name Zirong, was a Song dynasty statesman, astronomer, and pharmacologist who served five emperors and directed the water-driven astronomical clock tower completed in 1092.

Su Song's astronomical clock tower

Su Song's astronomical clock tower, Shui Yun Yi Xiang Tai, was a 40-foot water-powered clock tower built in Kaifeng around 1088, regarded as ancient China's astronomical clock high point.

Su Tempiesu

Su Tempiesu, a Nuragic sacred spring (fonte sacra) at Orune, Nuoro, Sardinia; Late Bronze Age water temple, 13th century BC, with preserved double-pitched roof, bronze sword votives, and UNESCO tentative listing.

Sự tích Hồ Gươm

Sự tích Hồ Gươm is a Vietnamese legend in which Lê Lợi receives a divine sword to expel Ming invaders and returns it to a Golden Turtle.

Sự tích trầu cau

Sự tích trầu cau, also called Tân Lang truyện, is a Vietnamese legend explaining the custom of chewing betel and the use of betel and areca in wedding gifts.

Su Tong

Su Tong (苏童) is the pen name of Chinese writer Tong Zhonggui, born in 1963, whose novella Wives and Concubines was adapted into Raise the Red Lantern.

SU Ursae Majoris

SU Ursae Majoris is a dwarf nova in Ursa Major, discovered in 1908, that gives its name to cataclysmic variables showing superoutbursts with periodic brightness modulations called superhumps.

SU Ursae Majoris star

SU Ursae Majoris is a dwarf nova in the constellation Ursa Major, discovered in 1908, and the prototype of the SU UMa subtype of cataclysmic variable stars.

Su Wei

Su Wei (苏威) was a Sui dynasty chief minister under Emperors Wen and Yang, son of the fiscal official Su Chuo, who drafted most of the early Sui laws.