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.
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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:
Alex Pullin (1987–2020), Australian snowboarder
Andrew 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
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