Susannah (given name)
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Susannah is a feminine given name
. It is an English
version of the Hebrew
name Shoshana, meaning lily. Other variants of the name include Susanna
, Susana
, Susan, Suzanne, and Susie
.
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
. It is an English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
version of the Hebrew
Hebrew language
Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...
name Shoshana, meaning lily. Other variants of the name include Susanna
Susanna
Susanna is a feminine first name. It is not very common in the USA, and is found there predominantly among the American Jewish community. It is the name of at least two women in the Bible. It is often spelled Susannah, although Susanna is the original spelling...
, Susana
Susana (given name)
Susana is a feminine given name. Like its variants, which include the names Susanna and Susan, it is derived from Σουσάννα, Sousanna, the Greek form of the Hebrew שושנה, Shoshannah, which could have been derived from the Aramaic language. ܫܘܫܢ, Shoshan means lily in Syriac. سوسن, Susan, is the...
, Susan, Suzanne, and Susie
Susie
Susie is a female name that can be a diminutive form of Susan, Susanne, Suzanne, Susannah, Susanna or Susana.- Susie :*"Susie", a song by Krokus from Painkiller*"Susie", a song by John Lee Hooker from the album Mr...
.
Notable people bearing the name Susannah include:
- Susannah BreslinSusannah BreslinSusannah Breslin is an American writer best known for creating the blog The Reverse Cowgirl and for her on-camera reporting for the Playboy TV program Sexcetera. Her writing and television work tends to deal with sexual and pornography-related topics. She has also written for periodicals including...
, American writer - Susannah CarrSusannah CarrSusannah Carr is an Western Australian television news presenter. Since 1985, Carr has co-presented Seven News in Perth with Rick Ardon...
(born 1952), Australian news anchor - Susannah CarterSusannah CarterSusannah Carter was the author of an early cookery book, The Frugal Housewife, or, Complete woman cook. The title page of the first edition indicated that Carter came from Clerkenwell in London...
(fl. 1765), English cookbook author - Susannah LattinSusannah LattinSusannah Lattin was an American woman who died of a postpartum infection at an illegal abortion clinic at 6 Amity Place in New York City, operated by Henry Dyer Grindle...
(1848-1868), American who died at illegal adoption clinic - Susannah Maria Cibber (1714–1766), English singer and actress
- Susannah ConstantineSusannah ConstantineSusannah Caroline Constantine is an English fashion journalist, advisor, television presenter, author and designer. Her second book, entitled What Not to Wear, has won her a prestigious British Book Award and sold 670,000 copies....
(born 1962), English fashion advisor - Susannah CorbettSusannah CorbettSusannah Corbett is an English actress and author. Her acting career began in 1991 and she has performed on television, film and radio. As an author she writes children's books.-Early life:...
(born 1968), English actress and author - Susannah DarwinSusannah DarwinSusannah Darwin was the wife of Robert Darwin, and mother of Charles Darwin, and part of the Wedgwood pottery family. She was the daughter of Josiah and Sarah Wedgwood. In 1817 she started growing ill, with gastrointestinal symptoms that were probably a sign of either a severe ulcer or stomach...
(1765-1817), mother of Charles Darwin - Susannah DoyleSusannah DoyleSusannah Doyle is a British actress, playwright and film director, best known for her roles in situation comedies Drop The Dead Donkey , and Ballykissangel ....
(born 1966), English actress, playwright, and film director - Susannah FieldingSusannah Fielding-Career:Fielding trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating in 2007, where she appeared in productions of The Tempest and Tales From Ovid .-Theatre:...
, English actress - Susannah FiennesSusannah FiennesSusannah Fiennes is a British artist who has worked extensively with the Prince of Wales and is collected in Europe, Asia and America.-Biography:Fiennes is the daughter of Lord & Lady Saye and Sele who are the owners of Broughton Castle....
(born 1961), British artist - Susannah FowleSusannah Fowle-Film:She is best known for her role as Laura Tweedle Rambotham in the film The Getting of Wisdom , about which the 2006 documentary Telling Schoolgirl Tales: The Making of 'The Getting of Wisdom was created, and her role in the television series Prisoner as Lori Young.-Theatre:She performed on...
(born 1958), Australian actress - Susannah GrantSusannah GrantSusannah Grant is an award-winning American screenwriter and director. She wrote the screenplays for Ever After, Erin Brockovich, directed by Steven Soderbergh, 28 Days and Disney's Pocahontas. For Erin Brockovich she received an Oscar nomination in 2001...
(born 1963), American screenwriter and director - Susannah GunningSusannah GunningSusannah Gunning was a British novelist.She was daughter of Reverend Dr. James Minifie. Her sister was Margaret Minifie....
(1740-1800), British novelist - Susannah HaganSusannah HaganSusannah Hagan is the founding Director of R_E_D , Professor of Urban Studies, and Director of the Office of Spatial Research at the University of Brighton. She has written and lectured extensively on the theory and practice of environmental design, in particular, environmentally led urban design...
(born 1951), English professor - Susannah HarkerSusannah HarkerSusannah Harker is an English film, television, and theatre actor. She is the daughter of English actress Polly Adams and actor Richard Owens, and the great-niece of Gordon Adams. She was nominated for a BAFTA TV Award in 1990 for her role as Mattie Storin in House of Cards...
(born 1965), English actress - Lady Susannah HolfordLady Susannah HolfordLady Susannah Holford was born in 1864 to Arthur and Mary Wilson of Tranby Croft. Her second husband was Sir George Holford who owned Dorchester House in London, Westonbirt House and Westonbirt Arboretum which is still enjoyed by the public today.-Early life:Susannah was the eldest child of Arthur...
(1864-1944), English noblewoman - Susannah JohnsonSusannah JohnsonSusannah Johnson is an American junior-level gymnast.Johnson won the bronze medal in tumbling at the 2007 World Cup for tumbling and trampolining with a score of 64.80....
(born 1990), American gymnast - Susannah Willard JohnsonSusannah Willard JohnsonSusannah Willard Johnson was an Anglo-American woman who was captured with her family during an Abenaki Indian raid on Charlestown, New Hampshire in August 1754, immediately prior to the breakout of the French and Indian War...
(c. 1729–1810), American captured in Abenaki raid - Susannah MartinSusannah MartinSusannah Martin was a woman executed for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.Martin was the fourth daughter, and youngest child, of Richard North and Joan North. Her mother died when she was a child. Her stepmother was named Ursula. She was baptized in Olney, Buckinghamshire, England on...
(1621–1692), woman executed during Salem witch trials - Susannah McCorkleSusannah McCorkleSusannah McCorkle was an American jazz singer much admired for her direct, unadorned singing style and quiet intensity.-Biography:...
(1946–2001), American jazz singer - Susannah MeadowsSusannah MeadowsSusannah Meadows is a senior writer for Newsweek magazine.She covered the presidential campaigns of Howard Dean and John Kerry, the five year anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre and the rape allegations against lacrosse players at Duke University...
, American writer for Newsweek magazine - Susannah MelvoinSusannah MelvoinSusannah Melvoin is an American vocalist and songwriter, best known for her association with Prince in the mid-1980s. Coming from a musical family, Melvoin is the twin sister of musician Wendy Melvoin, sister to the late Jonathan Melvoin , and daughter of jazz pianist Michael...
(born 1964), American vocalist, songwriter, and actress - Susannah SheldonSusannah SheldonSusannah Sheldon, a refugee from Maine, was eighteen years of age during the time of the witchcraft crisis at Salem Village. As one of the core group of allegedly afflicted girls, Sheldon made claims of afflictions for the first time during the last week of April of 1692...
, accuser during Salem witch trials - Susannah StaceySusannah StaceySusannah Stacey is a pseudonym used by writers Jill Staynes and Margaret Storey. Under this name, the team have produced a series of mystery novel featuring widowed British police Superintendent Bone...
, pseudonym used by writers Jill Staynes and Margaret Storey - Susannah WatersSusannah WatersSusannah Waters is a British soprano. Born in London, England, she attended both Bennington College and the Guildhall School of Music.She made her New York debut early in her career, as Belinda in Dido and Æneas at Symphony Space , a production that toured to New Orleans...
, British soprano - Susannah WiseSusannah WiseSusannah Walker Wise is an English television and stage actress. She trained as an actress at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, graduating in 1995. She is best known for her work in the British soap opera Eastenders and the Channel 4 comedy Peep Show...
, English actress - Susannah YorkSusannah YorkSusannah York was a British film, stage and television actress. She was awarded a BAFTA as Best Supporting Actress for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? and was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe for the same film. She won best actress for Images at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival...
(1939–2011), British actress
Fictional characters bearing the name Susannah include:
- SusannahSusannahSusannah is an opera in two acts by American composer Carlisle Floyd, who wrote the libretto and music while a member of the piano faculty at Florida State University. Floyd adapted the story from the Apocryphal tale of Susannah and the Elders, though the latter story has a more positive ending...
, title character of the opera of the same name - Susannah DeanSusannah DeanSusannah Odetta Holmes Dean is a fictional character from Stephen King's The Dark Tower series...
, character from Stephen King's The Dark Tower series - Susannah MorriseySusannah MorriseySusannah Morrisey is a fictional character in the defunct Channel 4 soap opera Brookside. She was portrayed by Karen Drury from 1991 until the character's death in 2000...
, character in the defunct soap opera Brookside - Susannah, title character of Muriel Denison's novel Susannah of the MountiesSusannah of the MountiesSusannah of the Mounties is a novel written by Muriel Denison in 1936. In the book Susannah is sent to Regina, Saskatchewan to spend the summer with her uncle who is a Mountie...
- Susannah, title character in "Susannah's Still AliveSusannah's Still Alive"Susannah's Still Alive" is a song by the British musician Dave Davies and his group The Kinks. It was one of the few Kinks songs that was written by Davies, the brother of lead songwriter Ray Davies. The single was credited solely to Dave Davies and featured all of The Kinks as his backing band...
", a single by The Kinks
See also
- SusannaSusannaSusanna is a feminine first name. It is not very common in the USA, and is found there predominantly among the American Jewish community. It is the name of at least two women in the Bible. It is often spelled Susannah, although Susanna is the original spelling...
- Susana (given name)Susana (given name)Susana is a feminine given name. Like its variants, which include the names Susanna and Susan, it is derived from Σουσάννα, Sousanna, the Greek form of the Hebrew שושנה, Shoshannah, which could have been derived from the Aramaic language. ܫܘܫܢ, Shoshan means lily in Syriac. سوسن, Susan, is the...
- Susan
- SusieSusieSusie is a female name that can be a diminutive form of Susan, Susanne, Suzanne, Susannah, Susanna or Susana.- Susie :*"Susie", a song by Krokus from Painkiller*"Susie", a song by John Lee Hooker from the album Mr...
- Suzanne
- Susanne (given name)Susanne (given name)Susanne is a feminine given name. It is a German and Scandinavian form of Susan. It may also be spelled Suzanne. People with the name include;* Susanne Antonetta, American poet;* Susanne Bier, Danish film producer, director and writer;...
- Sue (name)Sue (name)Sue is a common short form of the following female given names:*Susan*Susanna / Susannah / Suzanna*Susanne*SuzanneIt is rarely used as a man's name, a notable example being Sue K. Hicks , American jurist, who may have inspired the song A Boy Named Sue....