Pullen

Pullen is an uncommon English surname with a purported Norman origin.

"Pullen" is likely an occupational name, arising from the Old French word poulain.

King / Queen

There are several variants of "Pullen", including Pullin, Pullins, Pulleyn, Pullan and Pullein, the latter being the earliest recorded version (1166).

The surname is shared by these notable people:

• Albert J. Pullen (1861–1937), American politician
• Alex Pullin (1987–2020), Australian snowboarder
• Andrew Pullan (1963–2012), New Zealand mathematician
• Ashley Pullen (1956–2002), British speedway rider
• Barry Pullen (1939–2024), Australian politician
• Benjamin Pulleyne, also spelt Pullan (died 1861), Church of England clergyman and schoolmaster
• Cecil Pullan (1910–1970), Indian-born English cricket player
• Clive Pullen (born 1994), Jamaican athlete
• Cyril Pullin (1893–1973), English inventor, engineer and motorcycle race driver
• Daniel Pullen (1885–1923), American football player
• Deborah Pullen (1963–2010), New Zealand female international football (soccer) player
• Don Pullen (1941–1995), American jazz musician
• Eddie Pullen (1883–1940), American racing driver
• Frank Pullen (1915–1992), English businessperson and racehorse owner
• Geoff Pullen (1925–2008), Australian rugby league footballer
• George Pullen (disambiguation), multiple people
• 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
• Herbert A. Pullen (1874–1938), American orthodontist
• Jacob Pullen (born 1989), American basketball player
• James Pullen (born 1982), English former footballer
• James Henry Pullen (1835–1916), aka "Genius of Earlswood Asylum", British autistic savant
• Joe Pullen (c. 1883–1923), African-American lynching victim
• John Pullen (1901–?), Welsh footballer
• John Pullin (1941–2021), English rugby union player
• Jorge Pullin (born 1963), Argentine-American physics academic
• Josiah Pullen (1631–1714), English vicar
• Julie Pullen, American oceanographer and investor
• Kent Pullen (1942–2003), American politician
• Liam Pullen (born 2005), English snooker player
• Lloyd T. Pullen (1825–1908), American politician
• Lucy Pullen, Canadian artist
• Matilda Marian Pullan (1819–1862), British author
• Melanie Pullen, American photographer
• Melanie Clark Pullen (1975–2022), Irish actress, producer and writer
• Mick Pullen (1921–1969), Australian rules footballer
• Mieke Pullen (1957–2003), Dutch long-distance runner
• Neil Pullen (born 1977), English cricketer
• Noel Pullen (1944–2024), Australian politician
• O'Neal Pullen (1892–1944), American Negro league catcher
• Penny Pullen (born 1947), American politician
• Peter Pullan (1857–1901), English cricket player
• Purv Pullen (1909–1992), American actor
• Randy Pullen, American political activist
• 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
• Samuel Pullen, Church of Ireland archbishop of Tuam
• Sidney Pullen (1895–1950), English football (soccer) player
• Stacey Pullen, American techno musician
• Tessa Pullan (born 1954), sculptor, equestrian artist
• Thomas G. Pullen (1898–1979), American school superintendent
• Tobias Pullen (1648–1713), Irish bishop
• Tom Pullen (born 1945), Canadian football (gridiron) player
• Vern Pullens (1929–2001), American rockabilly and country singer
• Wally Pullen (1919–1977), English footballer
• Wayne Pullen (born 1945), Canadian archer
• William Pullen "Admiral Pullen" (1813–1887), Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer
• William Pullen (cricketer) (1866–1937), an English cricket player

See also

• Pullen House, a plantation house in Raleigh, North Carolina

References

Surname list

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