Susan (first name)

Susan is a female given name .

Origin, meaning, distribution

Susan is an English variant of Susanne , which comes from the Hebrew shoshanah and means "lily" or "the red lily".

Further forms are Susann, Susanna, Susen, Suzanne, Suzie and Suzette.

The name has been used since the 1920s. While it was one of the most popular first names from the mid-1950s, it has only rarely been given since the 1990s.

Name bearers

Susan

• Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906), American suffragette ("Napoleon of the women's movement")
• Susan Blackmore (born 1951), British writer and broadcaster
• Antonia Susan Byatt (* 1936), British writer
• Susan Bysiewicz (* 1961), American politician
• Susan Cooper (* 1935), English-speaking writer
• Susan Evance (≈1780–?), English poet
• Susan Flannery (born 1939), American actress
• Susan Hampshire (born 1937), British actress
• Susan Hayward (1917–1975), American film actress
• Susan Hiller (1940–2019), American artist
• Susan E. Hinton (* 1948), American writer
• Susan Hoecke (* 1981), German actress and photo model
• Susan Howard (born 1944), American actress
• Susan Isaacs (born 1946), American poker player
• Susan Neiman (* 1955), American philosopher
• Susan Orlean (* 1955), American journalist and author
• Susan Peters (1921–1952), American actress
• Susan Elizabeth Phillips (* 1948), American writer
• Susan Raye (born 1944), American country singer
• Susan Rigvava-Dumas (* 1966), Dutch musical actress
• Susan Sarandon (born 1946), American actress
• Susan Schubert (* 1959), German singer
• Susan Seidelman (* 1952), American film director
• Susan Sideropoulos (* 1980), German actress
• Susan Sontag (1933–2004), American writer, essayist and publicist
• Susan Stahnke (* 1967), German actress and television presenter
• Susan Stuart Frackelton (1848–1932), American painter and ceramic artist
• Susan Velder (* 1939), Canadian sculptor and painter
• Susan Yeagley (born 1972), American actress.

Susen

• Susen Küster (* 1994), German athlete
• Susen Lösch (* 1993), German orienteer
• Susen Tiedtke (* 1969), German long jumper

Fictional people

• Susan (TV series) - sitcom with Brooke Shields
• Susan… desperately wanted - movie with Madonna
• Susan Calvin - fictional person from the short stories of Isaac Asimov
• Susan Lawly - British music label