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{{Short description|First women in India to drive a car}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2023}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Suzanne RD Tata
| image =
| birth_date = 1880
| birth_place = Paris, France
| death_date = {{death year and age|1923|1880}}
| death_place = London, England
| birth_name =
| spouse = [[Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata]]
| children = 5 (including [[J.R.D Tata|Jehangir Tata]])
| family = See [[Tata family]]
|}}

'''Suzanne RD Tata''' (nee '''Brière''', 1880–1923), also known as '''Sooni Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata''', was the French wife of Indian businessman [[Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata]].<ref name="Suzanne2">{{cite web|url=http://livelystories.com/2011/11/18/women-of-india/ |title=Women of India |accessdate=2 September 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917164052/http://livelystories.com/2011/11/18/women-of-india/ |archivedate=17 September 2016 }}</ref> She is known for being the first woman in India to drive a car, in 1905.<ref name="Suzanne">{{citation|url=http://www.womenofindia.net/FIRST_WOMEN.htm/ |title=First Women |accessdate=2 September 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160816125903/http://www.womenofindia.net/FIRST_WOMEN.htm |archivedate=16 August 2016 }}</ref>

She was born in Paris. She married businessman [[Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata]], chairman of the [[Tata Group]], a member of the [[Tata family]], soon after he began to learn French, and they were married in Paris in 1902. At the time of her marriage, she converted to [[Zoroastrianism]] from Christianity and began to be known as Sooni, or Soona.<ref name="Suzanne4">{{cite web|url=http://www.tatacentralarchives.com/publications/newsletters/VOL-07-%20ISSUE-3-2008.pdf/ |title=Tata Central Archives NewsLetter |accessdate=2 September 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512074951/http://www.tatacentralarchives.com/publications/newsletters/VOL-07-%20ISSUE-3-2008.pdf |archivedate=12 May 2013 }}</ref> The couple had five children Rodabeh, [[J. R. D. Tata|Jehangir]], Jimmy, Sylla, and Dorab. Her son Jehangir, known as J. R. D. Tata, took over his father's business, while one of her daughters, Sylla, was married to businessman [[Petit baronets|Sir Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, 3rd Baronet]], brother of [[Rattanbai Jinnah|Rattanbai Petit]], the wife of [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah]]. Suzanne Brière made her first flight in an aeroplane in 1913 and died in 1923.<ref>{{Cite web |title=‘From Bombay to Hardelot: the early history of Tata Group in France’. An open-air exhibition and summer programme of cultural events and their legacy for EU-India trade |url=https://impact.ref.ac.uk/casestudies/CaseStudy.aspx?Id=7744 |access-date=21 September 2022 |archive-date=27 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211227065715/https://impact.ref.ac.uk/casestudies/CaseStudy.aspx?Id=7744 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In the early 20th century, Tata had some difficulties in reconciling her French and Indian identities.<ref name=IHMagedera2013>Ian H. Magedera, `Désorienter l'Orient et les orients désorientés: Said, Derrida et le paradoxe du GPS' in Jean-Pierre Dubost and Axel Gasquet (eds), ''Orients désorientés'' (Paris: Éditions Kimé, 2013), pp. 33-55, {{ISBN|978-2-84174-635-4}}</ref>

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[[Category:1880 births]]
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[[Category:Indian Zoroastrians]]
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[[Category:Immigrants to the British Empire]]

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