Suzanne is the French form of Susanna — from the Hebrew *Shoshana* ("lily"). **A top-50 US baby name from 1942 to 1961**. **Suzanne Pleshette (1937-2008)** — **American actress; played Emily Hartley on *The Bob Newhart Show* (1972-1978); five consecutive Primetime Emmy nominations**. **Suzanne Somers (1946-2023)** — American actress; played Chrissy Snow on *Three's Company* (1977-1981) — fired in a contract dispute that was one of the first high-profile cases of pay parity for women in television; reinvented herself as a fitness entrepreneur with the ThighMaster (over 10 million sold). **Suzanne Vega (born 1959)** — *Tom's Diner* (1987) became one of the most-sampled songs in pop history and the audio used to develop the MP3 format. **Suzanne Collins (born 1962)** — author of *The Hunger Games* trilogy (over 100 million books sold). **Suzanne Farrell** — American ballerina; New York City Ballet muse of Balanchine. **The Leonard Cohen song *Suzanne* (1966)** — Cohen's most-covered song.
Subject of countless American TV-history retrospectives.
Suzanne reduces to eight — the number of French lily.