Hull

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Hull may refer to:

Contents 1 In mathematics 2 Associated with Kingston upon Hull 3 Places 4 People 5 Other uses

• Kingston upon Hull ( almost invariably abbreviated to Hull), a city in England named after the River Hull (Kings town upon Hull, prior to 1299 it was known as Wyke upon Hull)
• Husk or hull, the outer covering of a fruit or vegetable
• Hull (watercraft), the body or frame of a ship
• The main body of an armored tank
• in economics, the Hull-White model of interest rates

[edit] In mathematics

• the affine hull in affine geometry
• the convex hull in geometry
• Carathéodory's theorem (convex hull)
• the holomorphically convex hull in complex analysis
• the injective hull of a module
• the Skolem hull of mathematical logic

[edit] Associated with Kingston upon Hull

• River Hull, for which Kingston upon Hull is named
• Hull City A.F.C., an English football team
• Hull F.C., rugby league club formed in 1865, based in the West of the city
• Hull Kingston Rovers (Hull KR), rugby league club formed in 1882, based in the East of the city
• The University of Hull, a university in England

[edit] Places

Canada

• Hull, Quebec, a former city in Québec (now part of the city of Gatineau)
• Hull (provincial electoral district), provincial electoral district in Quebec
• Hull—Aylmer, a Canadian federal electoral district

French Polynesia

• Îles Maria, an island in the Austral Islands, formerly called Hull Island

Kiribati

• Orona, an island that was formerly called Hull Island

United States

• Hull, Georgia
• Hull, Illinois
• Hull, Iowa
• Hull, Massachusetts
• Hull, West Virginia
• Hull, Marathon County, Wisconsin
• Hull, Portage County, Wisconsin
• Hull,Texas

[edit] People

• Blair Hull, an American businessman and politician
• Bobby Hull, a former Canadian ice hockey player
• Brett Hull, a former Canadian ice hockey player, and son of Bobby Hull
• Chuck Hull, inventor of stereolithography
• Clark L. Hull, an American psychologist
• Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State from 1933-1944 under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945
• Isaac Hull, early United States Naval officer, Captain of the USS Constitution during the battle with HMS Guerriere
• John Hull, a Professor of Derivatives and Risk Management at the University of Toronto
• Merlin Hull, U.S. Congressman
• Rae Hull, Canadian journalist
• Rod Hull (1935-1999), English entertainer.
• Tom Hull, mathematical origamist
• Warren Hull (1903-1974), film actor and TV personality
• William Hull, an American general during the American Revolutionary War and War of 1812

[edit] Other uses

• Hull House, settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, USA
• USS Hull, any of four U.S. Navy ships