Pullen
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Pullen is an uncommon English surname with a purported Norman origin.[1][2]
"Pullen" is likely an occupational name, arising from the Old French word poulain.[3]
There are several variants of "Pullen", including Pullin, Pullins, Pulleyn, Pullan and Pullein, the latter being the earliest recorded version (1166).[2]
The surname is shared by these notable people:
- Alex Pullin (1987–2020), Australian snowboarder
- Andrew John Pullan (1963–2012), New Zealand mathematician
- Benjamin Pulleyne, also spelt Pullan (died 1861), Church of England clergyman and schoolmaster
- Cecil Pullan (1910–1970), Indian-born English cricket player
- Cyril Pullin (1893–1973), English inventor, engineer and motorcycle race driver
- Deborah Pullen (1963–2010), New Zealand female international football (soccer) player
- Don Pullen (1941–1995), American jazz musician
- Frank Pullen (1915–1992), English businessperson and racehorse owner
- Harriet Pullen (1860–1947), American entrepreneur and hotelier
- Hartley Pullan (1899–1968), World War I flying ace
- Henry Pulleine (bef. 1850–1879), British Army administrator during the Anglo-Zulu War
- Henry William Pullen (1836–1903), English cleric and writer
- Jacob Pullen (born 1989), American basketball player
- James Henry Pullen (1835–1916), aka "Genius of Earlswood Asylum", British autistic savant
- John Pullin (1941–2021), English rugby union player
- Jorge Pullin (born 1963), Argentine-American physics academic
- Josiah Pullen (1631–1714), English vicar
- Kent Pullen (1942–2003), American politician
- Lloyd T. Pullen (1825–1908), American politician
- Lucy Pullen, Canadian artist
- Matilda Marian Pullan (1819–1862), British author
- Melanie Pullen (1975–2022), American photographer
- Melanie Clark Pullen (1975–2022), Irish actress, producer and writer
- Mieke Pullen (1957–2003), Dutch long-distance runner
- Penny Pullen, American politician
- Peter Pullan (1857–1901), English cricket player
- Purv Pullen (1909–1992), American actor
- Richard Popplewell Pullan (1825–1888), English architect and archæologist
- Robert Pullen (died c.1150), English theologian and official of the Roman Catholic Church
- Ru Pullan (1916–1993), Australian writer
- Sidney Pullen (1895–1950s), English football (soccer) player
- Tessa Pullan (born 1954), sculptor, equestrian artist
- Tobias Pullen (1648–1713), Irish bishop
- Tom Pullen (born 1945), Canadian football (gridiron) player
- Wally Pullen (1919–1977), English footballer
- Vern Pullens (1929–2001), American rockabilly and country singer
- William Pullen "Admiral Pullen" (1813–1887), Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer
- William Pullen (cricketer) (1866–1937), an English cricket player
See also
[edit]- Pullen House, a plantation house in Raleigh, North Carolina
References
[edit]- ^ "Pullen Surname Meaning". forebears.co.uk. Retrieved 20 January 2014
- ^ a b "Pullen surname meaning". SurnameDB. Name Origin Research. Retrieved 2008-01-30.
- ^ "Pullen Name Meaning and Origin". Family Facts. The Generations Network, Inc. Retrieved 2008-01-30.