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Susan is a female given name, a form of Susanna, deriving originally from Middle Egyptian "s?n" (lotus flower), first reported on an 11.Dyn. sarcophagus approximately 2000 B.C. Susan is a very popular name, and variations are found in many languages.

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Susan C. Faludi (born ) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. She won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1991, for a report on the leveraged buy-out of Safeway Stores, Inc., a report that the Pulitzer Prize committee thought showed the "human costs of high finance".

The Robinson family is a fictional family on the children's television series Sesame Street. The family consists of husband Gordon, a schoolteacher and his wife Susan, a nurse. Later, the family expands to include their adopted son Miles, as well as Gordon's sister Olivia, and his father Mr. Robinson. As African-Americans, the family was created as leads for the show, originally targeted to underprivileged inner-city children. Even as human roles were slowly reduced over the years, their characters maintained a constant presence.

Susan "Suze" Lynn Orman (born June 5, 1951) is an American financial advisor, author, motivational speaker, and television host. Pronunciation of Suze Orman. inogolo. Retrieved 2008-04-03.

She is the host of The Suze Orman Show on CNBC. She has written six consecutive New York Times Best Sellers; has written, co-produced, and hosted six PBS specials based on her books; and is the most successful fundraiser in the history of public television. [http://finance.yahoo.com/expert/bio/moneymatters/suze-orman] " fundraiser" Similar programs that she hosts on QVC, the leading home shopping network, also place her as the top seller. [http://www.wholelife.com/index.php?option=com_sobi2&sobi2Task=sobi2Details&sobi2Id=8&Itemid=101l]. Wholelife.

In 2004 and 2006, Orman won two daytime Emmy Awards in the category of Outstanding Service Show Host for her PBS specials. Over her television career, she has won five Gracie Awards, more than anyone in the 33-year history of the awards. [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11642946/] Gracie Awards.

In 2008, she was selected by Time magazine as one of the most influential people in the world. In 2009 she was honored by Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) with the Vito Russo Media Award.

Susan Sto Helit (also spelled Sto-Helit), once referred to as Susan Death, is a fictional character who has featured in three of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels: Soul Music, Hogfather, and Thief of Time. She is also referenced (though not by name) at the end of Mort, when her father invites Death to her christening.

She is the daughter of Ysabell, Death's adopted daughter (introduced in The Light Fantastic) and Mort, who was briefly his apprentice (in Mort). At the end of Mort they leave Death's domain and become Duke and Duchess of Sto Helit. Susan is their only child.

She is first introduced as a sixteen-year-old pupil at the Quirm College for Young Ladies in Soul Music, shortly after the death of her parents (Death could not save them, only grant them eternal life at his Domain, which they refused). After graduating ? and despite technically being the current Duchess of Sto Helit ? she begins a teaching career, first as a governess (in Hogfather) and then as a schoolteacher (in Thief of Time). She insists on being addressed as "Miss Susan". She was 16 when first encountered in Soul Music and, since the novels take place roughly in real time, was roughly 21 during her final appearance to date in Thief of Time.

Susan Jane Helms (born February 26, 1958) is a United States Air Force Brigadier General and a former NASA astronaut. She is currently the Director, Plans and Policy, Headquarters U.S. Strategic Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. Helms was a crew member on four Space Shuttle missions and was a resident of the International Space Station (ISS) for over five months in 2001. While participating in ISS Expedition 2, she and Jim Voss conducted an 8 hour and 56 minute spacewalk, the longest to date.

Susan Polgar (born April 19, 1969, as Polgár Zsuzsanna and often known as Zsuzsa Polgár) is a Hungarian-born American chess player. She is a member of the Executive Board of the United States Chess Federation, having been elected on July 26, 2007. She is also a chess writer and promoter and the head of the Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence at Texas Tech University.

On the July 1984 FIDE Rating List, at age 15, she was the top-ranked woman player in the world. She was the first woman to earn the title of Grandmaster in regular competition. She was the Women's World Chess Champion from 1996 to 1999. In October 2005 Polgar had an Elo rating of 2577, making her the second-ranked woman in the world at the time, after her sister Judit Polgár. She has been inactive and has not played in official competition since 2004.

She was born and brought up in Budapest, Hungary, and now lives in Lubbock, Texas, having recently moved from Forest Hills, Queens in New York City, where she ran the Polgar Chess Center and the Susan Polgar Foundation, which gives chess training to children, especially girls.Yaniv, Oren. "MASTERING CHESS WAS THE EASY PART. BLACK BELT CHAMP TEACHES MOVES IN FOREST HILLS", Daily News (New York), April 3, 2005. Accessed June 17, 2009. "This is an excellent club; it's not that formal," said Grandmaster Alexander Stripunsky, 34, co-winner of the 2005 U.S. championship, who, like Polgar and other chess masters, resides in Forest Hills."

Susan Pevensie (1928-?)is a fictional character in C. S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia series. Susan is the elder sister and the second eldest Pevensie child. She appears in three of the seven books — as a child in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian, and as an adult in The Horse and His Boy. She is mentioned in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and The Last Battle. During her reign at the Narnian capital of Cair Paravel, she is known as Queen Susan the Gentle or Queen Susan of the horn. She was the only Pevensie that survived the train wreck (because she was not on the train or at the station) on Earth which sent the others to Narnia after the Last Battle.

In Disney's live-action films, Category: The Chronicles of Narnia - : The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe|The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (2005) and Category: The Chronicles of Narnia - : Prince Caspian|Prince Caspian (2008), Susan is portrayed by actress Anna Popplewell. Actress Sophie Winkleman portrays an older Susan at the end of the first film.

Susan Tedeschi (pronounced te-DES-ki) (November 9, 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American blues and soul artist, who has risen to fame with multiple Grammy Award nominations, her powerful singing voice, fearless stage presence, and her marriage to Derek Trucks of the Allman Brothers Band. She is also known for the "Soul Stew Revival", a conglomeration of both her band, that of The Derek Trucks Band, and assorted other personnel.

Dr. Susan Lewis, played by Sherry Stringfield, is a fictional doctor on the television show ER between 1994-1996, and again from 2001-2005.

Susan is one of ER's original characters, first seen in Season 1 as an eager resident. She left County General and the series in Season 3, but returned five seasons later as an attending physician in Season 8. Susan Lewis eventually checked out of the ER for good in 2005 at the beginning of Season 12, having been passed over for tenure in favor of John Carter by Kerry Weaver. She was offered a tenured position at a hospital in Iowa. She returns in the finale episode.

Dr. Susan Calvin is a fictional character from Isaac Asimov's Robot Series. She was the chief robopsychologist at US Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc., the major manufacturer of robots in the 21st century. She was the main character in many short stories from the books I, Robot and The Complete Robot.