Mullen is a surname of
Irish and
Scottish origin. Notable people with the surname include:
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Alex Mullen
Alexander Mullen (born 13 June 1992) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Para Hills Knights SC.
Personal life
Mullen is the brother of Matthew, cousin of former Newcastle Jets player Daniel Mullen and the neph ...
(born 1992), Australian professional footballer
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Andrew Mullen
Andrew Mullen (born 29 November 1996) is a British Paralympian swimmer. Mullen competes in the S5 disability category in freestyle, backstroke and butterfly, specialising in sprint events. He competed in the 2012 and 2016 Summer Paralympics an ...
(born 1996), British Paralympian swimmer
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Ann A. Mullen (1935–1994), American politician
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April Mullen, Canadian actress and filmmaker
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Barbara Mullen
Barbara Mullen (9 June 19149 March 1979) was an American born actress well known in the UK for playing the part of Janet McPherson, the housekeeper in '' Dr. Finlay's Casebook''. Although the role of Janet brought her fame in later years, she alr ...
(1914–1979), American actress
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Brian Mullen (born 1962), former NHL player
* Charles Mullen, Irish immigrant to South Australia who invented the
mullenising
The stump-jump plough, also known as stump-jumping plough, is a kind of plough invented in South Australia in the late 19th century by Richard Bowyer Smith and Clarence Herbert Smith to solve the particular problem of preparing mallee lands for ...
agricultural method in the 1860s
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Charlie Mullen (1889–1963), Major League Baseball first baseman
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Conor Mullen (born 1962), Irish actor
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Dan Mullen
Dan Mullen (born April 27, 1972) is a former college football player and coach, and current television analyst with the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) and ESPN.
He served as the head football coach at Mississippi State University from ...
(born 1972), American college football coach
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Danny Mullen (born 1995), Scottish professional footballer
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David Mullen (photographer)
David Robert Mullen is an American artist and photographer. His art spans a wide range of styles from realist, to abstraction, to surrealist. David Mullen has practiced fine art photography for over 35 years. He views photography as a great printm ...
(born 1952), artist and photographer
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David Mullen (singer) David Mullen (born 1964) is a former Blues Pop / CCM singer, songwriter and musician. Later he became well known as a songwriter, music producer, and film score composer. He released his first album in 1989, and won the GMA Dove Award for New Artis ...
(born 1964), former Blues Pop / CCM singer and producer
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Earl Mullen (1902–1969), American politician and businessman
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Ed Mullen
Joseph Edward Mullen (March 9, 1913 – January 10, 1988) was an American professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball League for the Oshkosh All-Stars and averaged 1.9 points per game. He also coached the Milwaukee Shooti ...
(1913–1988), American professional basketball player
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Frank Mullen
Francis P.Mull Eugene Mullen (born January 2, 1970) is an American vocalist, best known as the former frontman for the New York technical death metal band Suffocation. He is one of the first vocalists to introduce low-pitched growling vocals int ...
, American death metal vocalist
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Fraser Mullen (born 1993), professional footballer
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Geoff Mullen
Geoffrey Richard Mullen (16 March 1947 – 25 November 2014) was an Australian draft resister whose jailing in 1971 became a focal point of opposition to conscription for the Vietnam War.
Mullen was born in Darlinghurst and attended Waverley ...
(1947–2014), Australian draft resister
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Graham Calder Mullen (born 1940), Senior United States District Judge
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Harryette Mullen
Harryette Mullen (born July 1, 1953), Professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles, is an American poet, short story writer, and literary scholar.
Life
Mullen was born in Florence, Alabama, grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, gradua ...
(born 1953), American poet, author and professor of English
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James T. Mullen
James Terrance Mullen (August 30, 1843 – July 6, 1891) was the first Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus from February 2, 1882 to May 17, 1886. He also served in the New Haven, Connecticut police and Fire Departments, and as an ald ...
(1843–1891), first Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus
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Jarrod Mullen
Jarrod Stephen Mullen (born 9 April 1987) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer. He last played for the Sunshine Coast Falcons in the Queensland Cup. A New South Wales State of Origin representative, he played at and . ...
(born 1987), current NRL player
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Jeff Mullen (born c. 1968), assistant football coach for
West Virginia University
West Virginia University (WVU) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Morgantown, West Virginia. Its other campuses are those of the West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Beckley, Potomac State Coll ...
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Jerry Mullen (1933–1979), college basketball player (
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...
)
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Jim Mullen
Jim Mullen (born 26 November 1945) is a Scottish, Glasgow-born jazz guitarist with a distinctive style, like Wes Montgomery before him, picking with the thumb rather than a plectrum.
Biography
Jim Mullen was guitarist with Pete Brown & Piblo ...
(born 1945), Scottish jazz guitarist
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Jimmy Mullen (footballer born 1923)
James Mullen (6 January 1923 – 23 October 1987) was an English international footballer who played as an outside left.
Mullen spent his whole career at Wolverhampton Wanderers where he won three English Football League championships and ...
(1923–1987), football player
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Jimmy Mullen (footballer born 1952) James, Jim or Jimmy Mullen may refer to:
* James Mullen (CEO) (born c. 1958), president and CEO of Biogen Idec
* James T. Mullen (1843–1891), Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus
* Jim Mullen (born 1945), Scottish guitarist
* Jim Mullen (bus ...
(born 1952), former football player and manager
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Joe Mullen
Joseph Patrick Mullen (born February 26, 1957) is an American former professional ice hockey player. He played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the St. Louis Blues, Calgary Flames, Pittsburgh Penguins and Boston Bruins betwee ...
(born 1957), former NHL player
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John Joseph Mullen (1829–1897), member of the Queensland Legislative Council
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John Mullan (academic)
John Mullan is a professor of English at University College London. He is a specialist in eighteenth-century literature, currently writing the 1709-1784 volume of the ''Oxford English Literary History''.
He has written a weekly column on contempor ...
, professor of English at University College London
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Karl Mullen
Dr Karl Daniel Mullen (26 November 1926 – 27 April 2009) was an Irish rugby union player and consultant gynaecologist who captained the Irish rugby team and captained the British Lions on their 1950 tour to Australia and New Zealand.
Mull ...
(1926–2009), Irish Rugby Union player
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Kathryn Mullen
Kathryn Mullen is an American puppeteer, actress, and voice actress most closely associated with Jim Henson projects.
History
Mullen began performing on ''The Muppet Show'' in its third season, primarily as Gaffer the Backstage Cat. She also vo ...
(born 1940), American puppeteer, actress, and voice actress
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Keith Mullen
The Farm are a British band from Liverpool. Their first album, ''Spartacus'', reached the top position on the UK Albums Chart when it was released in March 1991; ''Spartacus 30'' was released in 2021 to commemorate the anniversary. ''Spartacus ...
(born 1961), English rock musician
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Larry Mullen, Jr., (born 1961), drummer for U2
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Laura Mullen
Laura Mullen (born 1958 in Los Angeles), is a contemporary American poet working in hybrid genres and traditions.
Life and work
Mullen received her BA in English from UC Berkeley and her MFA in Poetry from the University of Iowa Writers' Worksh ...
(born 1958), American poet
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Luke Mullen
People
*Luke (given name), a masculine given name (including a list of people and characters with the name)
* Luke (surname) (including a list of people and characters with the name)
*Luke the Evangelist, author of the Gospel of Luke. Also known a ...
(born 2001), American actor, filmmaker, and environmentalist
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M. David Mullen (born 1962), Japanese-born American cinematographer
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Madeleine ffrench-Mullen
Madeleine ffrench-Mullen (30 December 1880 – 26 May 1944) was an Irish revolutionary and labour activist who took part in the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916.
Ffrench-Mullen was a member of the radical nationalist women's organisation . In 19 ...
(1880–1944), Irish revolutionary and labour activist
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Marie Mullen
Marie Mullen (born 1953) is an Irish actress. She is known for co-founding the Druid Theatre Company, located in Galway, Ireland. She is also known for her performance in the 1998 production of ''The Beauty Queen of Leenane'', for which she ...
(born 1953), Irish actress
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Mark Mullen Mark Edward Mullen (born 1961) is a television journalist and the anchorman for NBC affiliate KNSD-TV in San Diego. He joined the station in June, 2010 from ABC News, where he served as a Los Angeles-based correspondent. Prior to ABC, he was Chief ...
(born 1961), NBC News Chief and Reporter
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Matthew Mullen (born 1989), Australian footballer
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Michael Mullen
Michael Glenn Mullen (born October 4, 1946) is a retired United States Navy admiral, who served as the 17th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from October 1, 2007, to September 30, 2011.
Mullen previously served as the Navy's 28th chief of ...
(1919–1982), Irish Labour Party politician and trade union official
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Michael Mullen
Michael Glenn Mullen (born October 4, 1946) is a retired United States Navy admiral, who served as the 17th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from October 1, 2007, to September 30, 2011.
Mullen previously served as the Navy's 28th chief of ...
(born 1946), United States Navy admiral and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the US military
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Michael Mullen
Michael Glenn Mullen (born October 4, 1946) is a retired United States Navy admiral, who served as the 17th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from October 1, 2007, to September 30, 2011.
Mullen previously served as the Navy's 28th chief of ...
(born 1958), professional investment analyst and associate professor of finance at Stonehill College
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Moon Mullen
Ford Parker "Moon" Mullen (February 9, 1917 – February 28, 2013) was a second baseman in Major League Baseball who played one year for the Philadelphia Blue Jays during the season. Listed at 5' 9", 165 lb., Mullen batted left-handed an ...
(1917–2013), American baseball player
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Nick Mullen (born 1988), American comedian
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Nicole C. Mullen (born 1967), American singer, songwriter, and choreographer
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Patrick Mullen (ice hockey)
Patrick Mullen (born May 6, 1986) is an American professional ice hockey player, currently playing for the Belfast Giants in the UK's Elite Ice Hockey League (EIHL). Mullen was most recently with the Vienna Capitals in the Erste Bank Eishockey ...
(born 1986), American ice hockey player
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Patrick Mullen (Medal of Honor) (1844–1897), member of the United States Navy
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Paul Mullen (rugby union) (born 1991), Irish-born rugby union player
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Paul Mullen (born 1982), English multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter
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Peg Mullen (1917–2009), American anti-war activist
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Peter Mullen
Peter Mullen (born 11 January 1942) is a British Church of England priest. He is the former Rector of St Michael, Cornhill and St Sepulchre-without-Newgate in the City of London. Mullen is Chaplain to the Honourable Company of Air Pilots, one o ...
(born 1942), British Church of England priest and Rector of St Michael, Cornhill
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Rodney Mullen
John Rodney Mullen (born August 17, 1966) is an American professional skateboarder who practices freestyle skateboarding and street skateboarding. He is considered one of the most influential skaters in the history of the sport, being credited ...
(born 1966), professional skateboarder
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Rónán Mullen
Rónán Thomas Mullen (born 13 October 1970) is an Irish senator and former delegate to the Council of Europe. He is the leader of the Human Dignity Alliance, an anti-abortion political party formed in 2018. He was elected by the National Un ...
(born 1970), Irish politician
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Ruth González Mullen (1939–2009), Cuban artist
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Ryan Grice-Mullen (born 1986), former gridiron football wide receiver
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Ryan Mullen (born 1994), Irish professional racing cyclist
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Samuel Mullen (1828–1890), Irish bookseller in Australia
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Sheila Mullen (artist)
Sheila Mullen (born 1942) is a Scottish painter who lives and works in Scotland. She was born on 24 January 1942 in Glasgow, Scotland. She grew up near Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland. She attended the Glasgow School of Art and started painting pr ...
(born 1942), Scottish painter
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Sheila Mullen (model) (born 1957), American model
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Thomas Mullen (1897–1966), Irish Fianna Fáil politician and school teacher
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Tiawan Mullen (born 2000), American football player
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Tobias Mullen
Tobias Mullen (March 4, 1818 – April 22, 1900) was an Irish-born clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Erie in Pennsylvania from 1868 to until his death in 1899.
Biography
Early life
Tobias Mullen ...
(1818–1900), Roman Catholic Bishop of Erie
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Tom Mullen (born 1951), American football player
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Trayvon Mullen (born 1997), American football player
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William F. Mullen, III, United States Marine Corps officer
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Len Mullen, Glasgow Scotland, Professional Boxer
See also
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Mac Maoláin
Mac Maoláin Gaelic- Irish surname.
Overview
Mac Maoláin was a surname borne by a number of unrelated families in Gaelic Ireland, anciently found in Breifne, Mide, Brega, Connacht and Ulster.
Now anglicised MacMullan, MacMullen, MacMoylan, M ...
, a surname
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Maelan mac Cathmogha, a king
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Moylan
Moylan is a surname of Irish origin, anglicisation of the Gaelic ', meaning ‘son of the bald (')’.
People bearing this name include:
* Daniel Moylan (born 1956), English Conservative politician
* Douglas Moylan, Guamanian official
* Edwar ...
, a surname
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Mullenising
The stump-jump plough, also known as stump-jumping plough, is a kind of plough invented in South Australia in the late 19th century by Richard Bowyer Smith and Clarence Herbert Smith to solve the particular problem of preparing mallee lands for ...
, an Australian scrub-clearing device
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Mullens (disambiguation)
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Mullin
Mullin is a surname of Irish origin. Notable people with the name include:
* Chris Mullin (b. 1963), American basketball player
* Chris Mullin (politician), British Labour Party Member of Parliament
* Emma Mullin (born 1985), Irish Ladies Gaelic ...
, a surname
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Mullins (surname)
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English-language surnames
Surnames of Irish origin
Anglicised Irish-language surnames