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Su Wu

Su Wu (蘇武) was a Western Han dynasty diplomat sent as envoy to the Xiongnu who, held captive for about nineteen years, refused to submit and returned to serve in the capital.

Su Wu's detention by the Xiongnu

Su Wu's detention by the Xiongnu (苏武牧羊) was the nineteen-year captivity of the Han envoy Su Wu, who herded rams before returning in 81 BCE.

Su Xuelin

Su Xuelin (蘇雪林) was a Chinese writer and scholar, among the first generation of modern Chinese women writers, known for the novel Jixin and Qu Yuan studies.

Su Xun

Su Xun (苏洵, 1009–1066) was a Song dynasty essayist from Meizhou, father of Su Shi and Su Zhe, whose prose Ouyang Xiu presented to the court.

Su Yiming

Su Yiming (苏翊鸣), born 2004 in Jilin, is a Chinese snowboarder and former child actor; Olympic big air and slopestyle champion (Beijing 2022, Milano Cortina 2026) with four Olympic medals and first Chinese Olympic snowboarding champion.

Su Yu

Su Yu (粟裕) was a Chinese revolutionary military commander who rose to first among the ten grand generals of the People's Liberation Army, commanding the Huaihai campaign.

Su Yung

Su Yung (Vannarah Riggs, born 1989, Seattle) is an American professional wrestler, the "Undead Bride", a two-time IMPACT Knockouts Champion (2018, 2020) also known as Susie and Susan, active since 2007.

Su Zengfu (Supor Group)

Su Zengfu (苏增福), born 1941, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Supor Group in Yuhuan, Zhejiang, in 1994, building China's largest cookware maker before selling control to France's Groupe SEB in 2006–07.

Su Zhe

Su Zhe (苏辙) was a Song dynasty statesman and essayist who rose to Vice Director of the Chancellery and, with his father and brother, formed the "Three Sus."

SU-100 (СУ-100)

The SU-100 was a Soviet World War II tank destroyer carrying a 100 mm D-10S gun on the T-34 chassis, developed in 1944 as successor to the SU-85.

SU-152

The SU-152 was a Soviet heavy assault gun of World War II, mounting a 152 mm ML-20S gun-howitzer on the KV-1S chassis and accepted for service in February 1943.

SU-8

SU-8 is an epoxy-based, negative-tone, near-ultraviolet photoresist developed and patented by IBM in 1989, used to pattern thick, high-aspect-ratio microstructures in MEMS, microfluidics, and microelectronics.

Su-Anasy Corona

Su-Anasy Corona is a 300 km wide corona, a circular volcano-tectonic feature, on Venus at 78.0S 39.0E, named in 1997 after the Tartar/Kumyk/Karachay mother of water.

SU-DHL-4

SU-DHL-4 (DHL4), Stanford University-Diffuse Histiocytic Lymphoma-4, a human GCB-type diffuse large B-cell lymphoma cell line from a 38-year-old male's peritoneal effusion, carrying IGH-BCL2 fusion, EZH2 Y641S/Y661N, TP53 R273C; ATCC CRL-2957, DSMZ ACC-495.

Su–Schrieffer–Heeger model

The Su–Schrieffer–Heeger (SSH) model is a one-dimensional tight-binding model with alternating strong and weak bonds, built to describe polyacetylene and now the canonical model of one-dimensional topological insulators.

Su. Venkatesan

Su. Venkatesan is an Indian politician of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and a Sahitya Akademi Award-winning writer, serving as the Lok Sabha member for Madurai since 2019.

Su'a Cravens

Su'a Cravens, USC safety/linebacker hybrid (6-1, 224 lb), drafted 53rd overall in 2016 by Washington; 199 tackles, 10.5 sacks, 9 interceptions at USC; brief NFL career with Redskins and Broncos.

Su'luk poetry

Su'luk poetry (Arabic: شعر الصعاليك) is one of the three main genres of pre-Islamic Arabic poetry, composed by outcast raiders called ṣaʿālīk who lived outside the tribal order; its best-known poem is al-Shanfara's Lamiyyat al-ʿArab.

SU(1,1) interferometry

SU(1,1) interferometry is a form of quantum interferometry where both beam splitters are replaced by parametric amplifiers, proposed at Bell Labs in 1986 and first demonstrated in 2011.

SuA

SuA (수아), born Kim Bo-ra in 1994, is a South Korean singer and dancer, the main dancer of the girl group Dreamcatcher, which she joined in 2017.

Suad al-Sabah

Suad al-Sabah (سعاد الصباح), born in 1942, is a Kuwaiti poet of the ruling Al Sabah family and a leading woman poet of the Arabian Gulf.

Suaeda

Suaeda (seepweed, seablite) is a genus of about 94 accepted halophytic herbs and shrubs in Amaranthaceae, subfamily Suaedoideae, published in 1776. It grows in coastal and desert saline soils worldwide, tolerates 200 mM NaCl or more, and is used for food, oil, and saline-land restoration.

Suahasil Nazara

Suahasil Nazara is an Indonesian economist and former University of Indonesia professor who became Minister of Finance in 2026, appointed by President Prabowo after serving as Deputy Minister of Finance.

Suaire de Saint-Josse

The Suaire de Saint-Josse (Shroud of Saint Josse) is a fragmentary 10th-century silk samit bearing a Kufic Arabic dedication, found in 1920 and now in the Louvre.

Suakin-Gulf of Agig

Suakin-Gulf of Agig, Ramsar site no. 1860, is a 1,125,000-hectare coastal and marine wetland in Sudan's Red Sea State, designated 2 February 2009, spanning Suakin, the Suakin Archipelago, Tokar Delta and the Gulf of Agig.

Sual power station

The Sual power station is a coal-fired power plant with two 647 MW units in Sual, Pangasinan, on Luzon's Lingayen Gulf coast, in commercial operation since October 1999.

Suan Biao (Tsinghua Multiplication Table)

Suan Biao, also known as 算表, is a multiplication table on 21 bamboo slips from the Warring States period, around 305 BC, and the earliest known decimal calculator.

Suan-min ling (Edict on Assessing Merchant Wealth)

The suan-min ling (算缗令) was an edict of Emperor Wu of Han, issued in 119 BC to assess merchant wealth, later enforced through the gao-min informer system that ruined most middle-rank merchants.

Suana

Suana (Sovana), ancient Etruscan and Roman town in Tuscany's Fiora Valley, known to Pliny and Ptolemy, famous for its rock-cut necropolis including the Tomba Ildebranda, and birthplace of Pope Gregory VII.

Suancigou Coal Mine

Suancigou Coal Mine (酸刺沟煤矿) is a large underground thermal coal mine in the Jungar Coalfield in Jungar Banner, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, begun in 2008 and majority-owned by Inner Mongolia Yitai Coal.