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.

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 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