Susannah (given name)
Appearance
Gender | Female |
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Origin | |
Meaning | Lily |
Other names | |
Related names | Susanna, Susan, Suzanne, Susana |
Susannah is a feminine given name. It is an English version of the Hebrew name Shoshana, meaning lily.[1] Other variants of the name include Susanna, Susana, Susan, Suzanne, and Susie.
Notable people bearing this name include:
- Susannah Breslin, American writer
- Susannah Carr (born 1952), Australian news anchor
- Susannah Carter (fl. 1765), English cookbook author
- Susannah Lattin (1848–1868), American woman who died at illegal adoption clinic
- Susannah Maria Cibber (1714–1766), English singer and actress
- Susannah Constantine (born 1962), English fashion advisor
- Susannah Corbett (born 1968), English actress and author
- Susannah Darwin (1765–1817), mother of Charles Darwin
- Susannah Doyle (born 1966), English actress, playwright, and film director
- Susannah Fielding (born 1985), English actress
- Susannah Fiennes (born 1961), British artist
- Susannah Fowle (born 1958), Australian actress
- Susannah Grant (born 1963), American screenwriter and director
- Susannah Gunning (1740–1800), British novelist
- Susannah Hagan (born 1951), English professor
- Susannah Harker (born 1965), English actress
- Susannah Holford (1864–1944), English noblewoman
- Susannah Johnson (born 1990), American gymnast
- Susannah Willard Johnson (c. 1729–1810), American captured in Abenaki raid
- Susannah 'Suzy' Lamplugh (born 1961), British disappearance in 1986
- Susannah Martin (1621–1692), woman executed during Salem witch trials
- Susannah McCorkle (1946–2001), American jazz singer
- Susannah Meadows, American writer for Newsweek magazine
- Susannah Melvoin (born 1964), American vocalist, songwriter, and actress
- Susannah Scaroni (born 1991), American wheelchair Paralympian and athlete
- Susannah Sheldon, accuser during Salem witch trials
- Susannah Stacey, pseudonym used by writers Jill Staynes and Margaret Storey
- Susannah Waters, British soprano
- Susannah Wise, English actress
- Susannah York (1939–2011), British actress
Fictional characters bearing the name Susannah include
- Susanna (Book of Daniel)
- Susannah, title character of the opera of the same name
- Susannah, the eponymous character of the Libby Gleeson novel I Am Susannah
- Susannah Dean, character from Stephen King's The Dark Tower series
- Susannah Morrisey, character in the defunct soap opera Brookside
- Susannah, title character of Muriel Denison's novel Susannah of the Mounties
- Susannah, title character in "Susannah's Still Alive", a single by The Kinks
- Susannah Simon, protagonist of The Mediator Series
- Princess Susannah, fictional character in Black Mirror
See also
- Susanna (given name)
- Susana (given name)
- Susan
- Susie (disambiguation)
- Suzanne (given name)
- Susanne (given name)
- Sue (name)
- Zuzana (given name)
References
- ^ "Susannah." Behind the Name. Accessed on July 11, 2011.