Hull (surname)

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If the surname Hull is of topographical origin, it may derive from the Old English hyll, denoting a "dweller on or by a hill" (making it a Middle English West Country and West Midlands variant of Hill),[1][2] or from a Welsh term for a rough, uneven place.[3] It may also be of locational origin, e.g., Kingston upon Hull on the River Hull in Yorkshire, or derive from the personal name Hulle, a pet form of Hugh.[4] The name spread from the British Isles throughout the Anglosphere.

The first notable bearer of the name in North America, a brother of the Rev. Joseph Hull, was George Hull (1590–1659) of Crewkerne, Somerset, who in 1630 sailed on the Mary and John from Plymouth, Devon, in cooperation with the Winthrop Fleet,[5] and helped in the Puritan founding of Dorchester, which he represented at the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Hull later surveyed lands for the new Colony of Connecticut, including Windsor and Wethersfield; helped found Fairfield; and served as a representative to the General Court and as assistant to his good friend Roger Ludlow, who appointed him associate magistrate for towns along the shoreline.[6][7][8]

Notable people with the surname Hull include:

  • Alan Hull, English musician and songwriter
  • Blair Hull, American businessman and politician
  • Bobby Hull (born 1939), Canadian ice hockey player
  • Brett Hull (born 1964), Canadian–American ice hockey player; son of Bobby Hull
  • Brian Hull, American voice actor, impressionist, and YouTuber
  • Charles Henry Hull (born 1864), American economist and historian
  • Chuck Hull (born 1939), American inventor of stereolithography
  • Caesar Barrand Hul (1914–1940), Southern Rhodesian World War II flying ace
  • Clark L. Hull (1884–1952), American psychologist
  • Cordell Hull (1871–1955), U.S. Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944 under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945
  • Dennis Hull (born 1944), Canadian ice hockey player; brother of Bobby Hull
  • Edith Maude Hull (1880–1947), British writer, author of the novel The Sheik
  • Edward Hull (1823–1906), English illustrator and watercolorist
  • Emmett J. Hull (1882–1957), American architect
  • Everett Hull (1904–1981), American musician, inventor of the bass amplifier, and founder of Ampeg
  • Francesca Hull, cast member in British TV series Made in Chelsea
  • Frank Montgomery Hull (1901–1982), American entomologist
  • Gertrude Hull (1866–1947), American educator
  • Gordon Ferrie Hull, American physicist
  • Harold Hull (1920–1988), American professional basketball player
  • Henry Hull (1890–1977), American actor
  • Isaac Hull, early United States Naval officer, Captain of the USS Constitution during the battle with HMS Guerriere
  • James L. Hull, American Medal of Honor recipient
  • Jane Dee Hull (1935-2020), American educator and politician, governor of Arizona
  • John Hull (disambiguation), several people
  • John Hull (1624–1683), English colonist; Treasurer and mintmaster of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
  • John Hull (1761–1843), English physician, obstetrician, and botanist
  • John A. Hull (1874–1944), Judge Advocate General (1924–1928) and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (1932–1936)
  • John A. T. Hull (1841–1928), American lawyer and politician from Iowa
  • John C. Hull, Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 1925–1928 and First Securities Director 1930–1936
  • John C. Hull, Professor of Derivatives and Risk Management at the University of Toronto
  • John E. Hull (1895–1975), U.S. Army general
  • John H. E. Hull (1923–1977), English theologian and writer on religion
  • John M. Hull, Australian-born professor of religious education at the University of Birmingham
  • Joseph Hull (1595–1665), English colonist and clergyman in New England
  • Josephine Hull, American stage and film actress
  • Katherine Hull (born 1982), Australian golfer
  • Kay Hull, Australian politician
  • Laurens Hull (1779–1865), American physician and politician from New York
  • Merlin Hull, U.S. Congressman from Wisconsin
  • Rae Hull, Canadian journalist
  • R. F. C. Hull (1913–1974), British translator of the works of Carl Jung
  • Rod Hull (1935–1999), English entertainer
  • Ross Hull Canadian actor and TV personality
  • Ross A. Hull Australian-American radio engineer
  • Stephen A. Hull, American politician
  • Thomas Hull (disambiguation), several people
  • Thomas Hull (1728–1808), English actor and dramatist
  • Warren Hull (1903–1974), film actor and TV personality
  • William Hull (disambiguation), several people
  • William Hull, American general during the American Revolutionary War and War of 1812
  • William Hull (1820–1880), English watercolor landscape and still-life painter, illustrator, and etcher
  • William Lovell Hull (1897–1992), Canadian minister, missionary, author, and spiritual counselor to Adolf Eichmann during his imprisonment
  • William Roper Hull (1856–1925), Anglo-Canadian rancher, meat packer, businessman, and philanthropist
  • William Winstanley Hull (1794–1873), English liturgical writer and hymnologist
  • William "Billy" Hull (b. 1912), Ulster loyalist activist and politician
  • Xiea Hull, model, teacher, author and psychologist from Antigua and Barbuda

References[]

  1. ^ OE hyll in the East Midlands in Late Middle English, Gillis Kristensson, 1993
  2. ^ From Old English to Standard English: A Coursebook in Language Variation Across Time, Dennis Freeborn, 1992
  3. ^ An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names, William Arthur, 1857
  4. ^ A Dictionary of English Surnames, P.H. Reaney and R.M. Wilson, 1958
  5. ^ Massachusetts Genealogy Trails
  6. ^ The Hull Family in America, Col. Charles H. Weygant, 1913
  7. ^ The Hull Family Association
  8. ^ New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial; A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation (4 vols., New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), vol. 3, 1183, William Richard Cutter
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