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Suncheon Bay Ecological Park

Suncheon Bay Ecological Park (순천만자연생태공원) is a 2004 visitor and education complex at Suncheon Bay, South Korea, a 3,550-hectare Ramsar wetland (2006) famed for its reed beds, hooded cranes, and 1.9 million annual visitors.

SunCoke Energy

SunCoke Energy is an American company based in Lisle, Illinois that produces metallurgical coke for steelmakers, the largest independent US coke producer with over 60 years of experience.

Suncor Energy

Suncor Energy Inc. is a Canadian integrated energy company based in Calgary, Alberta, producing oil sands bitumen and operating refineries and the Petro-Canada retail network.

Suncorp Group

Suncorp Group is an ASX-listed trans-Tasman general insurer headquartered in Queensland, holding about 27% of the Australian market through brands including AAMI, GIO, and Vero.

SUNCT syndrome

SUNCT syndrome (short-lasting unilateral neuralgiform headache attacks with conjunctival injection and tearing) is a rare trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia causing brief, severe one-sided eye-area pain with eye redness and tearing; treated with lamotrigine.

Suncus

Suncus (white-toothed shrews, musk shrews) is a genus of Crocidurinae shrews erected by Ehrenberg in 1832, type species S. sacer (= Sorex murinus); includes the tiny Etruscan shrew and the commensal house shrew, but molecular data indicate paraphyly.

Sunda Kelapa

Sunda Kelapa is the historic harbor of Jakarta, formerly the main port of Sunda Pajajaran. It transitioned to Dutch rule in 1619 and is famous for the Phinisi schooners.

Sunda Kingdom

The Sunda Kingdom (Kerajaan Sunda) was a Hindu-Buddhist kingdom in western Java that arose from Tarumanagara's breakup around 670 CE, flourished in the Pajajaran era, and fell to the Banten Sultanate in 1579.

Sunda Strait

Sunda Strait (Selat Sunda), sea passage between Java and Sumatra linking the Java Sea and Indian Ocean; 26-110 km wide, ALKI I sea lane, Krakatau volcanism, 1883 and 2018 tsunamis, 1942 naval battle.

Sunda Strait crossing

The Sunda Strait crossing is a proposed bridge or undersea tunnel connecting Java and Sumatra, first proposed by President Soekarno in 1958; the bridge was canceled and no link exists.

Sunda Trench

Sunda Trench, also called Java Trench: oceanic trench south and west of Sumatra and Java in the eastern Indian Ocean, over 3200 km long, maximum depth 7290 m, formed by Indo-Australian Plate subduction at 60–73 mm/yr.

Sundae

A sundae, also known as an ice cream sundae and written 圣代 in Chinese, is an ice cream dessert with syrup, whipped cream, nuts, or fruit, named after "Sunday".

Sundaland

Sundaland: Southeast Asian biogeographical subregion on the Sunda Shelf, covering the Malay Peninsula south of the Isthmus of Kra, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and Palawan; a biodiversity hotspot exposed as one landmass during glacial sea-level lowstands and bounded by Wallace's Line.

Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival is an annual January festival for independent film founded by Robert Redford's Sundance Institute, held in Park City, Utah, and moving to Boulder, Colorado in 2027.

Sundance Kid

Sundance Kid (Harry Alonzo Longabaugh), American outlaw (1867-1908) and sidekick of Butch Cassidy in the Wild Bunch; named for Sundance, Wyoming jail term; fled to Argentina 1901; died in San Vicente, Bolivia, 1908.

Sundance Resort

Sundance Mountain Resort (Sundance Resort) is Robert Redford's ski resort and arts retreat in Provo Canyon, Utah, founded in 1969 on former Timp Haven land, birthplace of the Sundance Institute, sold in 2020, independent of Epic and Ikon passes.

Sundanese literature

Sundanese literature is the oral and written literature of the Sundanese language of West Java, Indonesia, spanning Old Sundanese manuscripts, oral pantun, Islamic verse, and modern print.

Sundanese people

Sundanese (orang Sunda), the second largest ethnic group of Indonesia at 15.5% in 2010, inhabit West Java and Banten (Pasundan/Tatar Sunda), speak the Sundanese language, are mostly Muslim, and farm wet rice traditionally timed by the pranata mangsa calendar.

Sundar C. (சுந்தர் சி.)

Sundar C. (சுந்தர் சி.), born 1968 in Erode, is a Tamil film director, actor, and producer with over 32 films including Arunachalam, Anbe Sivam, and the Aranmanai horror-comedy franchise; he lost the 2026 Madurai Central assembly race.

Sundar Jagannath

Sundar Jagannath is a hematologist-oncologist and multiple myeloma specialist who is Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and led the STORM trial of selinexor.

Sundar Pichai (சுந்தர் பிச்சை)

Sundar Pichai (Pichai Sundararajan) is an Indian-American business executive who joined Google in 2004, led Chrome, and became CEO of Google in 2015 and Alphabet in 2019.

Sundar Raj (ಸುಂದರ್ ರಾಜ್)

Sundar Raj (ಸುಂದರ್ ರಾಜ್), also Sundara Rajan, is a veteran Kannada film actor who debuted in 1967 with Immadi Pulikeshi, has 100-plus films, and is the husband of Pramila Joshai and father of actress Meghana Raj.

Sundara Kanda (सुन्दरकाण्ड)

Sundara Kanda (सुन्दरकाण्ड), the fifth book of Valmiki's Ramayana, narrates Hanuman's leap to Lanka, his meeting with Sita, and the burning of Lanka; 68 sargas, about 2,885 verses, near the epic's midpoint, and widely recited devotionally.

Sundara Pandya IV

Sundara Pandya IV, also styled Jatavarman Sundara Pandya, was a Pandya co-ruler of southern India in the early 1300s, a son of Maravarman Kulasekara Pandyan I who fought a succession war against his brother Vira Pandya.

Sundarakanda (సుందరకాండ) (2025 film)

Sundarakanda (సుందరకాండ) is a 2025 Telugu romantic comedy directed by Venkatesh Nimmalapudi, starring Nara Rohith, Sridevi Vijaykumar, and Virti Vaghani; released 27 August 2025, streamed on JioHotstar from 23 September 2025, earning about ₹5.78 crore net in India.

Sundaram Industries

Sundaram Industries is an Indian manufacturer of rubber products, solid tires, and defense solutions, founded in 1943 by T V Sundram Iyengar and part of the TVS Mobility Group.

Sundaram Master (film)

Sundaram Master (సుందరం మాస్టర్) is a 2024 Telugu comedy-drama directed by Kalyan Santhosh, starring Harsha Chemudu in his lead debut as an English teacher sent to the isolated village Miryalametta, produced by Ravi Teja, released 23 February 2024.

Sundarapandian

Sundarapandian (சுந்தரபாண்டியன்) is a 2012 Tamil comedy drama directed by debutant S. R. Prabhakaran, produced by and starring M. Sasikumar with Lakshmi Menon; released 14 September 2012, it won Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and was remade in Kannada with Yash.

Sundarar

Sundarar (சுந்தரர்), also called Sundaramurthi, was a Tamil Shaiva poet-saint of the 8th century who drew up the first known list of the 63 Nayanar saints.

Sundararaja Sitharama Iyengar

Sundararaja Sitharama Iyengar is a computer scientist who works on distributed sensor networks and digital forensics at Florida International University, best known as co-inventor of the Brooks–Iyengar algorithm, a fault-tolerant sensor fusion method.