Pullen

For other uses, see Pullen (disambiguation).

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

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