Sū Jìng 蘇敬 (also recorded in Sòng sources as Sū Gōng 蘇恭, the name 敬 having been replaced by 恭 to avoid the personal name of Sòng Tàizǔ Zhào Kuāngyìn’s grandfather Zhào Jìng 趙敬), c. 599–674, was the principal compiler of the Xīnxiū běncǎo 新修本草 (KR3ec004), the world’s first state-promulgated pharmacopoeia, completed in 659 (Xiǎnqìng 4) under Táng Gāozōng. He held the post of Cháoyì láng xíng yòu jiānménfǔ chángshǐ qídūwèi 朝議郎行右監門府長史騎都尉 and was the original petitioner who proposed to revise Táo Hóngjǐng’s 陶弘景 Běncǎo jīng jízhù. He is recorded in 《舊唐書》 j.79 (附楊上善傳) and his death-year is not securely fixed; modern reference works conventionally give a fl. of 657–674, with 674 sometimes proposed as a death-year based on the dating of his later works.
A native of Chénliú 陳留 (modern Kāifēng, Hénán), Sū had extensive practical pharmaceutical experience before his court appointment; the Xīnxiū preface by Kǒng Zhìyuē credits him as the originator of the project, with the senior officers Lǐ Jì 李勣 and Zhǎngsūn Wújì serving as supervising signatories.
No clear CBDB id; the Sòng renaming and the absence of a liè zhuàn in the Jiù Táng shū together obscure the figure in modern prosopographical databases.