Susan Skilliter (1930–1985) was a British academic, a lecturer in Turkish Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Newnham College.

She left her library to the College with a bequest which enabled the foundation of the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies.

[1] Susan Skilliter took a degree in Oriental Studies (Arabic and Persian) at Newnham College, Cambridge.

She published on William Harborne and trade relations between England and the Ottomans in the Elizabethan era, and became a noted authority on the subject.

Skilliter died on 16 September 1985, at the age of 54, and left her library and a significant bequest to Newnham College.