Bull (surname)
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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, in some cases 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 it.
Those bearing Bull as a surname include:
- Aksel-Otto Bull (born 1963), Norwegian theatre director
- Alfred E. Bull (1867–1930), American football player and coach
- Alyssa Bull (born 1995), Australian canoeist
- Amos Bull (1744–1825), American composer
- Amos Bad Heart Bull (c. 1868 – 1913), Oglala Lakota artist, son of Bad Heart Bull, passed that whole name on to both his sons in surname fashion
- Amy Bull (1877–1953), British suffragist and rural district councillor
- Anders Henrik Bull (1875–1956), Norwegian electrical engineer
- Anders Sandøe Ørsted Bull (1817–1907), Norwegian politician and mayor of Oslo
- Andy Bull, Australian singer-songwriter from Sydney
- Anthony Bull (1908–2004), British transport engineer and president of the Institute of Transport
- Arthur Bull (cricketer) (1892–1965), English cricketer
- Arthur Gilbert Bull (1890–1963), England rugby international player
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- Bart Bull, American writer, reporter, author, columnist, and critic
- Bartholomew Bull (1791–1879), immigrant and land owner in Upper Canada
- Bartle Bull (born 1970), American writer, magazine editor and journalist
- Bartle Bull (politician) (1902–1950), Canadian-British barrister and politician
- Ben Bull (born 1873), English footballer
- Benjamin Bull (1798–1879), American lawyer and politician
- Benjamin Pinto Bull (1916–2005), independence activist in Guinea-Bissau
- Bernard Bull (born 1971), American scholar and academic administrator
- Bernt Bull (born 1946), Norwegian politician for the Labour Party
- Birke Bull-Bischoff (born 1963), German politician
- Brynjulf Bull (1906–1993), Norwegian lawyer, Supreme Court advocate and politician
- Bull (Kent cricketer) (fl. 1871), English cricketer with unknown given name
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- Carla Bull (born 2002), Australian sprinter
- Cavinder Bull, Singaporean lawyer
- Cecil Robert Bull (1890–1978), Canadian politician
- Charles Bull (politician) (1846–1906), Australian politician and lawyer
- Charles Livingston Bull (1874–1932), American illustrator
- Charlie Bull (1909–1939), English cricketer
- Chloe Bull (born 1994), Welsh footballer
- Christian Bull (born 1996), Norwegian ice hockey player
- Christoph Bull (born 1966), German composer and musician
- Clarence Sinclair Bull (1896–1979), American portrait photographer
- Clive Bull (born 1959), English radio talk show host
- Cran Bull (born 1946), New Zealand cricketer and administrator
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- Dan Bull (born 1986), British rapper
- Dan Bull (politician), Australian politician and musician
- Daniel Bull (born 1980), Australian adventurer, mountain climber and professional speaker
- Dave Bull (bishop), British Anglican bishop
- David Bull (politician) (born 1969), English politician and television personality
- David Bull (craftsman) (born 1951), Canadian artist specializing in Japanese woodblock printmaking
- David Bull (Scouting) (born 1944), English former chairman of European Scout Region
- David Roger Bull (born 1957), English professor of electronic engineering
- Deborah Bull (born 1963), English dancer, writer, and broadcaster
- Dell Bull (born 1965), United States Navy officer
- Desmond Bull (1935–2015), Australian cricketer
- Dixie Bull (fl. 1630s), English sea captain and pirate
- Donald Bull, rugby union player who represented Australia
- Dontae Bull (born 1999), Canadian football player
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- Ed Bull, American professional stock car racing driver
- Edvard Bull, Sr. (1881–1932), Norwegian historian and politician
- Edvard Bull, Jr. (1914–1986), Norwegian historian
- Edvard Isak Hambro Bull (1845–1925), Norwegian physician
- Edvard Hagerup Bull (1855–1938), Norwegian judge and politician
- Edvard Hagerup Bull (composer) (1922–2012), Norwegian composer
- Edward Bull (c.1759–1798), English steam engine engineer
- Einar M. Bull (born 1942), Norwegian diplomat
- Eleanor Bull (1550–1596), owned establishment where Christopher Marlowe, the Elizabethan playwright and poet, died in 1593
- Ella Holm Bull (1929–2006), Southern Sámi teacher and author
- Elliott Ronald Bull (1942–1979), Aboriginal Australian artist
- Emma Bull (born 1954), American science fiction and fantasy author
- Emma Bull (art director), English director and creative consultant
- Ephraim Wales Bull (1806–1895), American farmer and politician, inventor of the Concord grape
- Eric Bull (1886–1954), Australian cricketer
- Everett L. Bull (born 1949), American computer scientist
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- Fran Bull (born 1938), American artist
- Francis Bull (1887–1974), Norwegian literary historian, professor at University of Oslo
- Frederick Bull (1875–1910), English cricketer who played for Essex
- Frederick Bull (Lord Mayor of London) (c. 1714–1784), British radical politician
- Fredrik Rosing Bull (1882–1925), Norwegian engineer and Information technology pioneer
- Fredrik Bull-Hansen (1927–2018), Norwegian military officer
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- Gary Bull (born 1966), English footballer
- Geoff Bull (born 1942), Australian jazz trumpeter and bandleader
- Geoffrey Bull (1921–1999), Scottish Christian missionary and author
- Geoffrey Bull (cricketer) (1912–1997), English cricketer
- Georg Andreas Bull (1829–1917), Norwegian architect and chief building inspector
- Georg Jacob Bull (1785–1854), Norwegian jurist and politician
- George Bull (1634–1710), English theologian and Bishop of St David's
- George Bull (British Army officer) (1877–1916), British brigadier-general
- George Bull (cricketer), English cricketer of the 1900s
- George Bull (journalist) (1929–2001), English translator, author and journalist
- George Stringer Bull (1799–1865), English cleric and social reformer
- Gerald Bull (1928–1990), Canadian engineer
- Graham MacGregor Bull (1918–1987), South African and British physician
- Grant Short Bull (c. 1851–1935), Lakota leader; passed Short Bull on to both his sons in surname fashion
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- Hank Bull (born 1949), Canadian artist and illusionist
- Hans Peter Bull (born 1936), German constitutional lawyer and jurist
- Harcourt Burland Bull (1824–1881), Canadian 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), Norwegian architect and designer
- Henrik Bull (judge) (born 1957), Norwegian judge
- Henrik H. Bull (1929–2013), a founder of Bull Stockwell Allen Architects in San Francisco
- Henrik Johan Bull, Norwegian businessman who patented the grenade-harpoon gun used for whaling
- Henry Bull (theologian) (died 1577), English Protestant writer
- Henry Bull (MP) (1630–1692), English member of parliament
- Henry Bull (settler) (1799–c. 1848), British Royal Navy officer and pioneer settler of the Swan River Colony in Australia
- Henry Bull (governor) (1610–1694), governor of Rhode Island, 1685–86, 1690
- Henry Bull (speaker) (1687–1774), speaker of the House of Deputies of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
- Henry Bull (cricketer) (1843–1905), English cricketer.
- Henry Graves Bull (1818–1885), British medical doctor, botanist and mycologist
- Hiram C. Bull (1820–1879), American politician
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- Ida Bull, Norwegian archivist and historian
J
- Jacob Breda Bull (1853–1930), Norwegian author
- James G. Bull (1838–1927), mayor of Columbus, Ohio
- James J. Bull, Professor in Molecular Biology at the University of Texas at Austin
- James Bull (cricketer) (born 1976), English cricketer
- Jan Bull (1927–1985), Norwegian author and theater instructor
- Jasmine Bull (born 2002), English footballer
- Jens Bull (1886–1956), Norwegian jurist and diplomat
- Johan Bull (1893–1945), American painter
- Johan Lausen Bull (1751–1817), Norwegian jurist and politician
- Johan Peter Bull (1883–1960), Norwegian theatre worker
- Johan Randulf Bull (1749–1829), Norwegian judge
- John Bull (composer) (c. 1562–1628), Baroque English composer and musician
- John Bull (prophet) (died 1642), English self-proclaimed prophet
- John Bull (Continental Congress) (c. 1740–1802), American statesman, Continental Congressman from South Carolina
- John Bull (congressman) (1803–1863), US Congressman from Missouri
- John Bull (priest) (fl. 1826–1830), Archdeacon of Barnstaple
- John S. Bull (1934–2008), American pilot and astronaut
- John Bull (gunman) (1836–1929), gunman of the American Old West
- John Wrathall Bull (1804–1886), settler, inventor and colonial author of South Australia
- John Bull (American Revolution) (1731–1824), American politician and military officer
- John Bull (businessman) (1672–1742), businessman in the City of London
- John Edward Bull (1806–1901), British Army officer and public servant in New South Wales
- Josh Bull (born 1985), Australian politician
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- Karl Sigwald Johannes Bull, (1860–1936), Norwegian Minister of Defence from 1910 to 1912
- Kieran Bull (born 1995), Welsh cricketer
- Kirsti Strøm Bull (born 1945), Norwegian professor of law
- Kirstin Bull, Australian ultramarathoner and long-distance runner
- Knud Bull (1811–1889), Norwegian painter and counterfeiter
- Kjell Bull-Hansen (1923–1945), Norwegian resistance member
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- Leonard Bull (1935–2013), Kenyan sports shooter
- Les Bull (1901–1973), Australian rugby league footballer
- Leslie George Bull (1916–1944), British RAF pilot
- Lionel Bull (1889–1978), Australian veterinary scientist
- Lucien Bull (1876–1972), Irish-born French pioneer in chronophotography
- Lyder Bull (1881–1959), Norwegian civil servant
- Lyle F. Bull (1938–2018), American rear admiral
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- Marcus Bull (born 1962), British historian
- Marie Magdalene Bull (1827–1907), Norwegian actress and photographer
- Melville Bull (1854–1909), U.S. Representative from Rhode Island
- Mette Bull (1876–1946), Norwegian actress
- Michael Bull, British academic
- Micky Bull (1930–2011), English footballer
- Mike Bull (born 1946), pole vaulter and decathlete from Northern Ireland
- Moses Bull (1830–1896), American politician
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- Nathaniel Bull (1842–1911), Australian politician
- Nikki Bull (born 1981), English footballer
- Norma Bull (1906–1980), Australian artist
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- Obadiah Bull, Irish lawyer during the reign of Henry VII
- Odd Bull (1907–1991), Royal Norwegian Air Force officer
- Olaf Bull (1883–1933), Norwegian poet
- Ole Bull (1810–1880), Norwegian violinist
- Ole Bornemann Bull (physician) (1842–1916), Norwegian ophthalmologist
- Ole Jacob Bull (born 1948), Norwegian translator and cultural director
P
- Peter Bull (1912–1984), British character actor
- Phil Bull (1910–1989), English professional gambler, racehorse owner and publisher
R
- Ray Bull, British psychologist
- Reidar Bull (1909–1994), Norwegian judge
- René Bull (1872–1942), British illustrator and photographer
- Renee Bull (born 1993), American beauty pageant titleholder
- Richard Bull (actor) (1924–2014), American actor
- Richard Bull (aviator) (1914–1942), U.S. naval officer
- Richard S. Bull (1913–1942), U.S. naval officer, also an aviator
- Richard Bull (Australian politician) (born 1946), New South Wales politician
- Richard Bull (MP) (1721–1805), British politician
- Robert Bull (1778–1835), British Royal Horse Artillery officer who fought in the Napoleonic Wars
- Rolf Bull-Hansen (1888–1970), Norwegian educator and author
- Ronnie Bull (footballer) (born 1980), English footballer
- Ronnie Bull (American football) (born 1940), American football running back
- Roy Bull (1929–2004), Australian rugby player and coach
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- Sandy Bull (1941–2001), American folk musician
- Sara Chapman Bull (1850–1911), American writer and philanthropist
- Schak Bull (1858–1956), Norwegian architect
- Scott Bull (born 1953), American professional football player
- Silke Bull, East German sprint canoer
- Sir Stephen Bull, 2nd Baronet (1904–1942), English lawyer and baronet
- Steve Bull (born 1965), English footballer
- Storm Bull (musician) (1913–2007), American musician, composer and educator
- Storm Bull (1856–1907), Norwegian-American engineer and educator
- Sverre Hagerup Bull (1892–1976), Norwegian banker, composer and writer
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- Tas Bull (1932–2003), Australian trade union leader
- Ted Bull (1898–1967), Australian rower
- Theodor Bull (1870–1958), Norwegian businessperson and genealogist
- Thomas Bull (judge), Swedish jurist
- Thomas Bull (Pennsylvania politician) (1744–1837), American politician
- Thomas Bull (settler) (c.1605–1684), early settler in the Connecticut Colony
- Thomas K. Bull (died 1893), American politician from Pennsylvania
- Thomas Short Bull (born 1946), American politician from South Dakota
- Tim Bull (born 1966), Australian politician
- Tom Bull (1905–1976), Australian politician
- Tony Bull (footballer) (1930–2019), Australian rules footballer
- Tony Bull (wrestler), British wrestler
- Tove Bull (born 1945), Norwegian linguist
- Trevor Bull (1944–2009), British cyclist
- Trygve Bull (1905–1999), Norwegian lecturer and politician
- Tyson Bull (born 1993), Australian artistic gymnast
