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 been treated as bearing it.
Those bearing Bull as a surname include:
- Alfred E. Bull, an American football player and coach
- Amos Bull, one of America's first composers
- Amy Bull, British suffragist, rural district councillor, and MBE
- Anders Henrik Bull, a Norwegian electrical engineer
- Anders Sandøe Ørsted Bull, a Norwegian politician and mayor of Oslo
- Andy Bull, an Australian singer-songwriter from Sydney
- Anthony Bull, a British transport engineer and president of the Institute of Transport
- Bart Bull, American writer, reporter, author, columnist, and critic.
- Bartle Bull, American writer, magazine editor and journalist
- Ben Bull, English footballer
- Benjamin Bull, American lawyer and politician
- Bernt Bull, Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
- Brynjulf Bull, Norwegian lawyer, Supreme Court advocate and politician
- Bull, Kent cricketer with unknown given name
- Cavinder Bull, Senior Counsel, lawyer and director of the Singapore law firm Drew & Napier
- Charlie Bull, an English cricketer
- Charles Livingston Bull, illustrator
- Clarence Bull, one of the great portrait photographers
- Clive Bull, English award-winning radio talk show host
- Dan Bull, British rapper
- David Bull, British television commentator and former doctor
- David Bull
- Deborah Bull, English dancer, writer, and broadcaster
- Dixie Bull, English sea captain and pirate
- Donald Bull, rugby union player who represented Australia
- Edvard Bull, several specific people
- Edvard Bull, Sr., Norwegian historian and politician for the Labour Party
- Edvard Hagerup Bull, Norwegian judge and politician for the Conservative Party
- Edvard_Isak_Hambro_Bull, Norwegian chief physician
- Edward Bull, English steam engine engineer
- Eleanor Bull, owned establishment where Christopher Marlowe, the Elizabethan playwright and poet, died in 1593
- Emma Bull, science fiction and fantasy author
- Ephraim Wales Bull, inventor of the Concord grape
- Fran Bull, an American artist
- Francis Bull, a Norwegian literary historian, professor at University of Oslo
- Frederick Bull, English cricketer who played for Essex
- Fredrik Rosing Bull, Norwegian engineer and Information technology pioneer
- G. Bull, English cricketer
- Gary Bull, an English footballer
- Geoff Bull, an Australian jazz trumpeter and bandleader
- Geoffrey Bull, a Scottish Christian missionary and author
- Georg Andreas Bull, Norwegian architect and chief building inspector
- Georg Jacob Bull, a Norwegian jurist and politician
- George Bull, English theologian and Bishop of St David's.
- Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer
- Graham MacGregor Bull, South African and British physician
- Harcourt Burland Bull, an Ontario journalist and political figure
- Harold R. Bull, Assistant Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force under Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Hedley Bull, Australian-born political scientist
- Henrik Bull, a Norwegian architect and designer
- Henrik H Bull, 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 , an early settler in the Swan River Colony and served in British Navy
- Henry Bull , an early colonial Governor of Rhode Island
- Hiram C. Bull, American politician
- Jacob Breda Bull, a Norwegian author
- James J. Bull, Professor in Molecular Biology at the University of Texas at Austin
- Jan Bull, a Norwegian author and theater instructor
- Jens Bull, a Norwegian jurist and diplomat
- Johan Lausen Bull, a Norwegian jurist and politician.
- Johan Randulf Bull, a Norwegian judge
- John Bull, several specific people
- John Bull , English composer and musician
- John Bull , an American clergyman and physician who represented Missouri in the U.S. Congress
- John Bull , American statesman, Continental Congressman from South Carolina
- John Bull , deadly gunman of the American Old West
- John S. Bull, U.S. Navy test pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut
- Karl Sigwald Johannes Bull,, Norwegian Minister of Defence from 1910 to 1912
- Knud Bull, a Norwegian painter and counterfeiter
- Lucien Bull, a pioneer in chronophotography
- Lyder Bull, Norwegian civil servant
- Marie Magdalene Bull, Norwegian actress and photographer
- Melville Bull, a U.S. Representative from Rhode Island
- Mike Bull, retired male pole vaulter and decathlete from Northern Ireland
- Moses Bull, American politician
- Nikki Bull, an English footballer
- Norma Bull, Australian artist
- Obadiah Bull Irish lawyer during the reign of Henry VII, who coined the phrase "that's Bull"
- Olaf Bull, Norwegian poet
- Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist
- Ole Bornemann Bull , a Norwegian ophthalmologist.
- Pauline Bull, former English model and artist
- Peter Bull, British character actor
- René Bull, an illustrator
- Richard Bull, several specific people
- Richard Bull , American film actor, stage actor and television actor
- Richard Bull , United States Navy aviator during World War II
- Richard Bull , former Australian politician
- Richard S. Bull, earned the Distinguished Flying Cross during World War II
- Roger Anthony Bull, a former Canadian diplomat
- Ronnie Bull , English footballer
- Ronnie Bull , retired American football running back
- Roy Bull, Australian rugby player and coach
- Sandy Bull, American folk musician
- Schak Bull, a Norwegian architect
- Scott Bull, former American professional football player
- Silke Bull, an East German sprint canoer
- Simon Bull, an English-born artist now living in America
- Stephen Bull, an English lawyer and baronet.
- Steve Bull, English footballer
- Storm Bull, American musician, composer and educator
- Sverre Hagerup Bull, a Norwegian banker, composer and writer
- Tas Bull, Australian trade union leader
- Theodor Bull, a Norwegian businessperson and genealogist
- Tom Bull, an Australian politician
- Tove Bull, a Norwegian linguist
- Trygve Bull, a Norwegian lecturer and politician
- Vika Bull and Linda Bull are a sister vocal duo
- Walter Bull, an English football player and manager
- William Bull, several specific people
- William Bull , an early Australian landowner in the Riverina region, Australia
- William Frederick Bull former Canadian diplomat
- William James Bull, 1st Baronet, British solicitor, Conservative politician, Member of Parliament
People bearing Bull as part of a traditional Native-American name
- Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Sioux leader & performer
- Amos Bad Heart Bull, Oglala Lakota artist and historian
- Grant Short Bull, Oglala Lakota leader
- Arnold Short Bull, Sičháŋǧu Lakota leader
- White Bull , Sioux leader