Pullen is an uncommon English surname with a purported Norman origin. Retrieved 20 January 2014
"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
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