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Surzhyk (суржик)
Surzhyk (суржик, suržyk) is mixed Ukrainian-Russian speech in Ukraine, related to Belarusian Trasjanka. Originally a term for mixed low-grade grain; pejorative, studied as fused lects; five-type typology by Bilaniuk; attitudes shifting after 2022.
Sus (genus)
Sus is the suid genus holding the wild boar Sus scrofa, ancestor of the domestic pig, plus Asian warty and bearded pig species; it arose in Island Southeast Asia about 1.36 million years ago and includes the only two domesticated pig species.
Sus-Khotin Corona
Sus-Khotin Corona is a 110-km-diameter corona, a ring-shaped volcano-tectonic structure, on Venus at 54.0S, 241.0E, named after a Tajik and Uzbek rain goddess.
Susa (شوش)
Susa (شوش, Shushan), ancient capital of Elam and administrative capital of the Achaemenid Empire in Khuzestan, Iran; occupied from the late 5th millennium BCE to the 13th century CE, UNESCO-listed in 2015, site of Darius I's palace and the Code of Hammurabi find.
Susa pottery
Susa pottery is the painted ceramics excavated at Susa in Khuzestan, southwestern Iran, above all the tall, thin-walled painted beakers of the Susa I phase, dated to the late 5th millennium BCE.
Susa Ventures
Susa Ventures is a San Francisco seed-stage venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Chad Byers, Leo Polovets, and Seth Berman, known for early investments in Robinhood.
Susac syndrome
Susac syndrome is a rare autoimmune disease that blocks small vessels in the brain, retina, and inner ear, causing encephalopathy, vision loss, and hearing loss.
Susan Alberts
Susan Alberts is an American biologist at Duke University who studies social behavior, demography, and aging in wild primates, co-directing the Amboseli Baboon Research Project in Kenya.
Susan Alice Buffett
Susan Alice Buffett (born 1953, Omaha) is Warren Buffett's eldest child, chair of the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation and Sherwood Foundation, founder of the Buffett Early Childhood Fund, and a Berkshire Hathaway director.
Susan Amara
Susan G. Amara is an American neuroscientist known for cloning the human noradrenaline transporter and serving as Scientific Director of the NIMH Intramural Research Program since 2013.
Susan Ann Sulley
Susan Ann Sulley (born 1963, Sheffield), also Susan Anne Gayle, is an English singer who joined The Human League in 1980 after Phil Oakey saw her dancing at the Crazy Daisy club; she sings co-lead on "Don't You Want Me" and remains in the band's core trio.
Susan Anspach
Susan Anspach (1942–2018), American stage and film actress of 1970s New Hollywood, known for Five Easy Pieces, Play It Again, Sam, Blume in Love, and Montenegro; died in Los Angeles at 75.
Susan Anton
Susan Anton is an American singer and actress known for her 1979 film Goldengirl, her Top Ten country hit Killin' Time, and her stage work in Hurlyburly.
Susan Athey
Susan Athey is an American economist at Stanford known for market design, machine learning, and causal inference, and winner of the 2007 John Bates Clark Medal.
Susan Atkins
Susan Denise Atkins (1948-2009), "Sadie Mae Glutz" in Charles Manson's Family, took part in the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders including Sharon Tate's killing, was sentenced to death in 1971 (commuted to life), and died of brain cancer after 38 years in prison.
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906), American Quaker-born reformer and organizer for woman suffrage; NWSA co-founder, 1872 voting-arrest defendant, coeditor of History of Woman Suffrage; the Nineteenth Amendment was long called the Anthony Amendment.
Susan B. Anthony dollar
The Susan B. Anthony dollar is a US one-dollar coin first struck in 1979, the first small dollar coin and the first to honor a real woman.
Susan B. Hassmiller
Susan B. Hassmiller is an American nurse and health policy leader who spent nearly 25 years as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's senior adviser for nursing.
Susan Backlinie
Susan Backlinie (1946-2024), American actress and stuntwoman, played Chrissie Watkins, the shark's first victim in Jaws (1975); also a Weeki Wachee mermaid, animal trainer, and 1941 parody role.
Susan Ballabina
Susan Ballabina is an American academic administrator named the 28th president of Texas A&M University on May 6, 2026, after three decades in the Texas A&M System, including executive vice chancellor, AgriLife deputy vice chancellor, and chief of staff to Mark Welsh.
Susan Band Horwitz
Susan Band Horwitz is an American molecular pharmacologist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine known for defining how the anticancer drug Taxol stabilizes microtubules, work honored with the 2019 Canada Gairdner International Award.
Susan Barrantes
Susan Barrantes, born Susan Mary Wright, was an English documentary film producer known as the mother of Sarah, Duchess of York; she died in Argentina in 1998.
Susan Bay
Susan Bay Nimoy (born 1943), credited as Susan Bay, is an American actress, TV and documentary director, producer, and arts philanthropist. Known for The Big Mouth, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the DGA Original Six women directors of 1979, and the 2018 Sundance short Eve.
Susan Bennett
Susan Bennett (born 1949, Burlington, Vermont) is an American voice actress and singer, the original American English voice of Apple's Siri, recorded in July 2005 for ScanSoft and identified publicly in 2013 via CNN; Apple never confirmed her.
Susan Berman
Susan Berman was an American journalist and author, best known for her memoir Easy Street and being murdered in 2000, for which Robert Durst was convicted in 2021.
Susan Blackmore
Susan Blackmore is a British psychologist and writer at the University of Plymouth who left parapsychology after finding no evidence of psi, then wrote The Meme Machine (1999).
Susan Blakely
Susan Blakely (born 1948, Frankfurt, Germany) is the American actress and former Ford model who won the 1977 Golden Globe for Rich Man, Poor Man, played Patty in The Towering Inferno and Frances Farmer in Will There Really Be a Morning? Distinct from the Intertek Alchemy executive of the same name.
Susan Bonner‐Weir
Susan Bonner-Weir is a diabetes researcher, Senior Investigator at Joslin Diabetes Center and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, known for work on beta-cell regeneration and beta-cell senescence.
Susan Boyle
Susan Boyle (Susan Magdalane Boyle, born 1961, Blackburn, Scotland), Scottish singer whose 2009 Britain's Got Talent audition of "I Dreamed a Dream" went viral; over 25 million albums sold, UK record debut album, 2013 autism and 2022 stroke disclosures.
Susan Buffett
Susan Thompson Buffett (1932-2004), first wife of Warren Buffett, philanthropist, Berkshire Hathaway director, and president of the Buffett Foundation, renamed the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation after her death in Cody, Wyoming.