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Suicide of Rehtaeh Parsons
Rehtaeh Parsons, Nova Scotia teenager who died by suicide April 7, 2013 at 17 after an alleged 2011 sexual assault photo circulated; prompted Segal and Pepler reviews, Cyber-safety Act, later struck down.
Suicide of Renata Kambolina
Renata Kambolina (Rina Palenkova, Рената Камболина), Russian student from Ussuriysk who died by suicide on 23 November 2015 aged 16; her 'nya.bye' final VKontakte post became the origin myth of the Blue Whale challenge panic.
Suicide of Tyler Clementi
Tyler Clementi, an 18-year-old Rutgers freshman violinist also known as a victim of webcam spying by roommate Dharun Ravi, died by suicide September 22, 2010; the case spurred the Tyler Clementi Foundation, Rutgers' Tyler Clementi Center, and the federal Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act.
Sultan Kösen
Sultan Kösen (Sultan Kösen), Turkish farmer born in 1982 in Mardin, is the Guinness World Records tallest living man at 251 cm (8 ft 2.8 in), measured 2011; his height comes from pituitary gigantism, treated with 2010 Gamma Knife surgery.
Sümeyye Erdoğan
Sümeyye Erdoğan Bayraktar (born 1985, Istanbul), daughter of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is a Turkish activist and founding vice president of KADEM, the Women and Democracy Association, married to drone engineer Selçuk Bayraktar.
Summer of Love
The Summer of Love was a 1967 gathering drawing some 100,000 young people to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, featuring the Monterey International Pop Festival and Scott McKenzie's anthem.
Sun Myung Moon (문선명)
Sun Myung Moon (문선명, 1920–2012), Korean founder of the Unification Church (Holy Spirit Association, 1954), messianic claimant, mass-wedding officiant, Washington Times founder, and builder of a global business empire; died 2012, succeeded by his children.
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.
Sunderlal Bahuguna (सुंदरलाल बहुगुणा)
Sunderlal Bahuguna (सुंदरलाल बहुगुणा, 1927–2021), Gandhian environmentalist of Uttarakhand, Chipko movement leader and anti-Tehri Dam campaigner; slogan "Ecology is permanent economy," 4,870 km Himalayan march, 15-year logging moratorium, Padma Vibhushan.
Sunny von Bülow
Sunny von Bülow (Martha Sharp Crawford), American heiress whose 1980 irreversible coma led to two attempted-murder trials of husband Claus von Bülow, his 1985 televised-trial acquittal, and the film Reversal of Fortune.
Superhuman
Superhuman: adjective meaning beyond normal human powers, from Medieval Latin superhumanus (1630s). Covers superhuman AI such as AlphaGo (2016), human enhancement ethics, and the Superhuman productivity company.
Superiority complex
Superiority complex: Adlerian term for an exaggerated sense of one's abilities from overcompensating for inferiority; not a DSM-5-TR diagnosis; measured by the SUCOMP scale; distinct from narcissism and self-esteem.
Supremacism
Supremacism is the ideology that one group of people is superior and entitled to rule or dominate others, whether by race, religion, gender, or culture.
Supreme Eiye Confraternity
Supreme Eiye Confraternity (National Association of Airlords), a Nigerian student confraternity founded at the University of Ibadan in 1965, later classed as a secret cult and organized crime group active in trafficking and fraud.
Suquamish people
The Suquamish (dxʷsəqʷəbš, "people of the clear salt water") are a Coast Salish, Lushootseed-speaking tribe on the Port Madison Reservation in Kitsap County, Washington, party to the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott, with 1,515 members led by Chairman Leonard Forsman.
Suraj Yengde
Suraj Milind Yengde, Indian Dalit scholar from Nanded, Maharashtra, author of Caste Matters (2019) and Caste: A Global Story (2025), co-editor of The Radical in Ambedkar, Harvard Kennedy School and University of Pennsylvania academic.
Surinamese people
Surinamese people are the inhabitants of Suriname and their diaspora, chiefly in the Netherlands. Main groups: Hindustani (27.4%), Maroon (21.7%), Creole, Javanese, Mixed; Dutch-speaking, multi-religious.
Survivalism
Survivalism, also called prepping, is the practice of preparing for societal collapse or catastrophe through stockpiling food, skills, and retreats. Coined by Kurt Saxon in 1975/6, it is strongest in the United States and spans far-right, secular, and left-wing variants.
Survivor guilt
Survivor guilt, also known as survivor's syndrome, is the guilt felt by people who survive a traumatic event in which others died or suffered more, first named in 1960s Holocaust literature.
Survivorship bias
Survivorship bias, also called survival bias, is a selection bias in which analysis covers only cases that survived a filter, inflating apparent success. Known from Abraham Wald's 1943 WWII bomber analysis and mutual fund return studies.
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 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 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 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.
Susan Carland
Susan Carland (Susan Janet Carland), Australian sociologist of religion at Monash University, author of Fighting Hislam (2016), converted to Islam at 19, studies Muslim women, feminism, and Islamophobia, and is married to Waleed Aly.
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.
Suspension bondage
Suspension bondage, central to shibari (縛り) and kinbaku (緊縛), lifts a bound person partially or fully off the ground on rope from an overhead anchor; distinguished from floor bondage by radial nerve compression risk, suspension trauma syndrome, and rated rigging requirements.
Susquehannock
The Susquehannock, also called the Conestoga and Minquas, were an Iroquoian-speaking Native American people living along the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania, New York, and Maryland.
Sustainability
Sustainability means meeting present needs without compromising future generations, per the 1987 Brundtland definition. Covers its three dimensions, weak vs strong sustainability metrics, the SDGs, planetary boundaries, and greenwashing in sustainable finance.
Sustainable Development Goal 5
Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG 5) is a United Nations goal, adopted in 2015, to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls by 2030.