Bull (surname)
Bull is a surname.
In addition to people bearing "Bull" as an Old World-derived surname, "Bull" has been part of the names of some Native Americans. Some of them bear it as part of a traditional name of their respective cultures. Some of these, and some others, either have borne it as part of a legal surname or (with or without their assent) been treated as bearing thusly.
Those bearing Bull as a surname include:
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- Alfred E. Bull (1867–1930), an American football player and coach
- Amos Bull (1744–1825), one of America's first composers.
- (Amos Bad Heart Bull (c. 1868 – 1913) -- noted in a following section -- was the son of Bad Heart Bull, and passed that whole name on to both his sons in surname fashion.)
- Anders Henrik Bull (1875 – after 1909), a Norwegian electrical engineer
- Anders Sandøe Ørsted Bull (1817–1907), a Norwegian politician and mayor of Oslo
- Andy Bull, an Australian singer-songwriter from Sydney
- Anthony Bull (1908–2004), a British transport engineer and president of the Institute of Transport
- Bart Bull, American writer, reporter, author, columnist, and critic.
- Bartle Bull (born 1970), American writer, magazine editor and journalist
- Ben Bull, English footballer
- Benjamin Bull (1798-1879), American lawyer and politician
- Bernt Bull (born 1946), Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
- Brynjulf Bull (1906–1993), Norwegian lawyer, Supreme Court advocate and politician
- Bull (fl. 1871), Kent cricketer with unknown given name
- Cavinder Bull, Senior Counsel, lawyer and director of the Singapore law firm Drew & Napier
- Charlie Bull (1909–1939), an English cricketer
- Charles Livingston Bull (1874–1932), illustrator
- Clarence Bull (1896–1979), one of the great portrait photographers
- Clive Bull (born 1959), English award-winning radio talk show host
- Courtnie Bull, an American actress
- Dan Bull (1986-), British rapper
- David Bull (born 1969), British television commentator and former doctor
- Deborah Bull (1963), English dancer, writer, and broadcaster
- Dixie Bull (fl. 1630s), English sea captain and pirate
- Donald Bull, rugby union player who represented Australia
- Edvard Bull, several specific people
- Edvard Bull, Sr. (1881–1932), Norwegian historian and politician for the Labour Party
- Edvard Hagerup Bull (1855–1938), Norwegian judge and politician for the Conservative Party
- Edvard_Isak_Hambro_Bull, Norwegian chief physician
- Eleanor Bull (1550–1596), owned establishment where Christopher Marlowe, the Elizabethan playwright and poet, died in 1593
- Emma Bull (born 1954), science fiction and fantasy author
- Ephraim Wales Bull (1806–1895), inventor of the Concord grape
- Fran Bull (born 1938), an American artist
- Francis Bull (1887–1974), a Norwegian literary historian, professor at University of Oslo
- Frederick Bull (1875–1910), English cricketer who played for Essex.
- Fredrik Rosing Bull (1882–1925), Norwegian engineer and Information technology pioneer
- G. Bull, English cricketer
- Gary Bull (born 1966), an English footballer
- Geoff Bull (born 1942), an Australian jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
- Geoffrey Bull (1921–1999), a Scottish Christian missionary and author
- Georg Andreas Bull (1829–1917), Norwegian architect and chief building inspector
- Georg Jacob Bull (1785–1854), a Norwegian jurist and politician
- George Bull (1634–1710), English theologian and Bishop of St David's.
- George Bull (1809–1886), chair maker, pioneer settler in Canada Township, Polk County, Nebraska
- Gerald Bull (1928–1990), Canadian engineer
- (Grant Short Bull (c. 1851 – 1935) -- noted in a following section -- passed Short Bull on to both his sons in surname fashion.)
- Harcourt Burland Bull (1824–1881), an Ontario journalist and political figure
- Harold R. Bull (1893–1976), Assistant Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) under Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Hedley Bull (1932–1985), Australian-born political scientist
- Henrik Bull (1864–1953), a Norwegian architect and designer
- Henrik H Bull (born 1929), a founder of Bull Stockwell Allen Architects in San Francisco
- Henrik Johan Bull businessman who patented the grenade-harpoon gun used for whaling
- Henry Bull (settler) (1799–1848), an early settler in the Swan River Colony and served in British Navy
- Henry Bull (governor) (1610–1694), an early colonial Governor of Rhode Island
- Henry Bull (Speaker), Speaker of the Colonial Rhode Island House of Deputies, 1728, 1734
- Jacob Breda Bull (1853–1930), a Norwegian author
- James J. Bull, Professor in Molecular Biology at the University of Texas at Austin
- Jan Bull (1927–1985), a Norwegian author and theater instructor
- Jens Bull (1886–1956), a Norwegian jurist and diplomat
- Johan Lausen Bull (1751–1817), a Norwegian jurist and politician.
- Johan Randulf Bull (1749–1829), a Norwegian judge
- John Bull, several specific people
- John Bull (composer) (c. 1562 – 1628), English composer and musician
- John Bull (congressman) (1803–1863), an American clergyman and physician who represented Missouri in the U.S. Congress
- John Bull (Continental Congress) (c. 1740 – 1802), American statesman, Continental Congressman from South Carolina
- John Bull (gunman) (1836–1929), deadly gunman of the American Old West
- John S. Bull (1934–2008), U.S. Navy test pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut
- Karl Sigwald Johannes Bull, (1860–1936), Norwegian Minister of Defence from 1910 to 1912
- Knud Bull (1811–1889), a Norwegian painter and counterfeiter
- Lucien Bull (1876–1972), a pioneer in chronophotography
- Lyder Bull (1881–1959), Norwegian civil servant
- Melville Bull (1854–1909), a U.S. Representative from Rhode Island.
- Mike Bull (born 1946), retired male pole vaulter and decathlete from Northern Ireland
- Moses Bull (1830–1896), American politician
- Nikki Bull (born 1981), an English footballer
- Norma Bull (1906–1980), Australian artist
- Obadiah Bull Irish lawyer during the reign of Henry VII, who coined the phrase "that's Bull"
- Olaf Bull (1883–1933), Norwegian poet
- Ole Bull (1810–1880), Norwegian violinist
- Ole Bornemann Bull (physician) (1842–1916), a Norwegian ophthalmologist.
- Pauline Bull, former English model and artist
- Peter Bull (1912–1984), British character actor
- René Bull (1872–1942), an illustrator
- Richard Bull, several specific people
- Richard Bull (actor) (born 1924), American film actor, stage actor and television actor
- Richard Bull (aviator) (1914–1942), United States Navy aviator during World War II
- Richard Bull (politician) (born 1946), former Australian politician
- Richard S. Bull (1913–1942), earned the Distinguished Flying Cross during World War II
- Roger Anthony Bull, a former Canadian diplomat
- Ronnie Bull (footballer) (born 1980), English footballer
- Ronnie Bull (American_football) (born 1940), retired American football running back
- Roy Bull (1929–2004), Australian rugby player and coach
- Sandy Bull (1841–2001), American folk musician
- Schak Bull (1858–1956), a Norwegian architect
- Scott Bull (born 1953), former American professional football player
- Silke Bull, an East German sprint canoer
- Simon Bull (born 1958), an English-born artist now living in America
- Stephen Bull (1904–1942), an English lawyer and baronet.
- Steve Bull (born 1965), English footballer
- Storm Bull (1913–2007), American musician, composer and educator
- Sverre Hagerup Bull (1892–1976), a Norwegian banker, composer and writer
- Tas Bull (1932–2003), Australian trade union leader
- Theodor Bull (1870–1958), a Norwegian businessperson and genealogist
- Tom Bull (1905–1976), an Australian politician
- Tove Bull (born 1945), a Norwegian linguist
- Trygve Bull (1905–1999), a Norwegian lecturer and politician
- Vika Bull and Linda Bull are a sister vocal duo
- Walter Bull (died 1952), an English football player and manager
- William Bull, several specific people
- William Bull (landowner) (1867–1956), an early Australian landowner in the Riverina region, Australia
- William Frederick Bull former Canadian diplomat
- William James Bull (1863–1931), 1st Baronet, British solicitor, Conservative politician, Member of Parliament
People bearing Bull as part of a traditional Native-American name
- This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
- Sitting Bull (c. 1831 – 1890), Hunkpapa Sioux leader & performer
- Amos Bad Heart Bull (c. 1868 – 1913), Oglala Lakota artist and historian
- Grant Short Bull (c. 1851 – 1935), Oglala Lakota leader (He started being known,as an adult, with "Grant" before his traditional name, and passed "Short Bull" on in surname fashion in the male line of his descendants.)
- Arnold Short Bull (c. 1845 – 1923), Sičháŋǧu (or Brulé) Lakota leader
- White Bull (Native American) (1849–1947), Sioux leader