Cullen (surname)
Cullen is a surname of Scottish or Irish origin. Cullen is a surname of Scottish origin. Cullen (Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Cuilinn) is a village and former royal burgh in Moray, Scotland, on the North Sea coast 20 miles (32 km) east of Elgin. The village now has a population of 1,327 and is famous for Cullen Skink. In Ireland it is derived from the Mac Cuilinn, a native Gaelic Sept of County Monaghan, or from the O'Cuilinn Sept of County Kildare. The name seems to be related to Cullinane. While Cullen is encountered primarily in Dublin and southeast Ireland, Cullinan/Cullinane used almost exclusively in western Ireland on a North-South-Axis from Galway to Cork.[1] A distribution map of the name has been processed on a genealogy site.[2]
Persons with the surname
- Adam Cullen, Australian artist
- Alice Cullen, UK politician
- Archibald Howard Cullen, former bishop of Grahamstown, South Africa
- Bill Cullen, American game show host
- Bill Cullen (businessman), Irish businessman and philanthropist
- Brett Cullen, American actor
- Bud Cullen, Canadian Federal Court judge
- Charles Cullen, former nurse and convicted serial killer
- Christian Cullen, New Zealand rugby union player
- Countee Cullen, African American poet of the Harlem Renaissance
- Dan Cullen, Australian cricketer
- Edgar M. Cullen, Chief Judge of the NY Court of Appeals 1904-1913
- Eric Cullen, Scottish comedy actor
- Gordon Cullen CBE, English architect
- Hugh Roy Cullen, independent Houston oil man and philanthropist
- Jack Cullen, American baseball pitcher
- James Cullen (mathematician), described Cullen numbers
- James Cullen (PTAA), founder of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association
- James P. Cullen, U.S. brigadier general
- Joe Cullen, defensive line coach for the Detroit Lions
- John Cullen, former NHL hockey player
- Jonathan Cullen, English actor
- Joseph Cullen, Australian politician
- Matt Cullen, NHL hockey player
- Martin Cullen, Irish politician
- Maurice Cullen (boxer), English boxer
- Michael Cullen, New Zealand politician
- Nathan Cullen, Canadian Member of Parliament
- John Michael Cullen, Australian ornithologist
- Paul Cullen (cardinal), 19th-century Irish cardinal
- Paul Cullen (rugby league), rugby league coach
- Peter Cullen, voice actor most famous as Optimus Prime from Transformers
- Robert Cullen, Irish-Japanese football (soccer) player
- Seán Cullen, Canadian comedian
- Thomas H. Cullen, United States Representative
- Tim Cullen, United States baseball player
- Timothy Cullen (Wisconsin politician), Wisconsin State Senate
- Tina Cullen, English field hockey player
- William Cullen, 18th-century Scottish doctor and chemist
- William Cullen, Baron Cullen of Whitekirk or Lord Cullen, Lord President of the Court of Session of Scotland's Court of Session
Fictional
- The Cullen family in the Twilight novels, notably including:
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