Su-Lin Young

Adelaide "Su-Lin" Young (1911–2008) was an American explorer, journalist, and disc jockey. Born in New York City to Ming Tai Chen, a wealthy nightclub owner, she graduated from Wesleyan College. In 1934, she joined her husband Jack Young and brother-in-law Quentin on an expedition funded by Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Kermit Roosevelt, exploring China, Tibet, and India for the American Museum of Natural History.

During this time, she also worked as a reporter in Shanghai for the North China Daily News and Arthur Sowerby's China Journal. There, she met Ruth Harkness, who named the first giant panda sent to the U.S. "Su-Lin" after her. After WWII forced her to relocate within China, Young left in 1949 following the Chinese Communist Party's takeover.

She then worked as a radio disc jockey in Taiwan for the United States Armed Forces Network. Returning to the U.S. in the 1950s, she lived in Virginia, California, and North Carolina before dying at age 96 in Hercules, California.