Fuller (surname)
Appearance
Fuller is a surname. It originally referred to someone who treats woolen cloth with the process called fulling (a process also known as walking—or waulking in Scotland—and tucking, hence the names Walker and Tucker).[1] Notable people with the surname include:
Acting
- Alfie Fuller, American actress
- Barbra Fuller (1922–2024), American actress
- Dolores Fuller (1923–2011), American actress and composer, Ed Wood's companion
- Drew Fuller (born 1980), American actor
- Frances Fuller (1907–1980), American actress
- Kurt Fuller (born 1953), American actor
- Mary Fuller (1888–1973), American actress
- Penny Fuller, American actress
- Robert Fuller (actor) (born 1933), American actor
Architecture
- Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983), American architect
- George A. Fuller (1851–1900), American architect and general contractor, "inventor" of modern skyscrapers
- H. E. Fuller (1867–1962), South Australian architect, artist and art critic
- Thomas Fuller (architect) (1823–1898), Canadian architect
- Thomas W. Fuller (1865–1951), Canadian architect, son of Thomas Fuller
Art
- George Fuller (painter) (1822–1884), American figure and portrait painter
- Isaac Fuller (1606?–1672), English painter
- Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1867–1968), American artist
- Ron Fuller (artist) (1936–2017), British artist
- Victoria Fuller (artist) (born 1953), American artist and sculptor
- Violet Fuller (1920–2006), British artist
Business
- Alfred Fuller (1885–1973), Canadian businessman
- George F. Fuller (1869–1962), American industrialist
- Kathryn S. Fuller, American lawyer and business executive
- Samuel Augustus Fuller (1837–1891), American steel industry executive
- Samuel B. Fuller (1905–1988), American entrepreneur
Film and television
- Ben Fuller (producer) (1875–1952), English theatre entrepreneur in Australia
- Brad Fuller (producer) (born 1965), American filmmaker
- Chris Fuller (born 1982), American filmmaker
- Courtis Fuller (born 1957), American broadcaster
- Samuel Fuller (1911–1997), American movie director
- Simon Fuller (born 1960), British record and television producer
Medicine
- Samuel Fuller (Pilgrim) (c. 1580–1633), English doctor, a founder of the colony at Plymouth, Massachusetts
- Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734), English physician and collector of adages in his Gnomologia
Military
- Aaron Fuller (military) (1738–1816), American military officer
- Ben Hebard Fuller (1870–1937), American general and 15th Commandant of the Marine Corps
- Edward Fuller (U.S. Marine Corps officer) (1893–1918), American officer and son of Ben Hebard Fuller
- Horace H. Fuller (1886–1966), American soldier
- J. F. C. Fuller (1878–1966), British general and military historian
- John W. Fuller (1827–1891), American general
- Thomas G. Fuller (1908–1994), Canadian captain in the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve; recipient of a Distinguished Service Cross and two bars in the Second World War, and whose company constructed several landmark buildings in Ottawa
- Wilfred Fuller (1893–1947), British soldier
- Stephen Fuller (1900–1984), Irish Fianna Fáil politician and former member of the Kilflynn IRA Flying column
Music
- Aidan Fuller (born 2003), known as 347aidan, Canadian rapper
- Blind Boy Fuller (born Fulton Allen; 1904–1941), American blues guitarist and singer
- Bobby Fuller (1942–1966), American rock singer and guitarist
- Curtis Fuller (1932–2021), American jazz trombonist
- Jesse Fuller (1896–1976), American one-man-band musician
- Jim Fuller (musician) (1947–2017), American guitarist with The Surfaris
- Johnny Fuller (1929–1985), American blues singer and guitarist
- Joni Fuller (born 1991), British musician
- Rachel Fuller (born 1973), British musician
Politics and law
- Allen C. Fuller (1822–1901), Attorney General of Illinois during the American Civil War
- Alvan T. Fuller (1878–1958), American politician from Massachusetts, father of Peter D. Fuller
- Charles Eugene Fuller (1849–1926), American congressman for Illinois
- Claude A. Fuller (1876–1968), American congressman for Arkansas
- David Fuller (politician) (1941–2022), American politician, Montana state senator
- DuFay A. Fuller (1852–1924), American businessman and politician in Illinois, brother of Charles Eugene Fuller
- George Fuller (Australian politician) (1861–1940), twice Premier of New South Wales, Australia
- George Fuller (British politician) (1833–1927), British Liberal politician
- George Fuller (congressman) (1802–1888), American congressman for Pennsylvania
- Lon L. Fuller (1902–1978), American legal philosopher
- Mad Jack Fuller (1757–1834), English politician, philanthropist and patron of the arts
- Melville Fuller (1833–1910), eighth Chief Justice of the United States
- Oramel B. Fuller (1858–1935), American politician in Michigan
- Richard Fuller (Bedford MP) (born 1962), British politician
Religion
- Andrew Fuller (1754–1815), British Baptist minister
- Charles E. Fuller (Baptist minister) (1887–1968), American preacher and founder of Fuller Theological Seminary
- George C. Fuller (1932–2021), American theologian and seminary president
- John Fuller (college head) (died 1558), Master of Jesus College, Cambridge (1557–1558)
- Peter the Fuller, Patriarch of Antioch
- Reginald C. Fuller (1908–2011), British priest and biblical scholar
- Thomas Fuller (1608–1661), English cleric and historian, author of Worthies of England
Science and technology
- Alison Fuller, British educational researcher
- Calvin Fuller (1902–1994), American physical chemist, inventor of the solar cell
- Claude Fuller (entomologist) (1872–1928), Australian-born entomologist in South Africa
- Edgar Fuller, American mathematician
- George M. Fuller (born 1953), American physicist
- George W. Fuller (1868–1934), sanitary engineer
- Gerald Fuller (born 1953), American chemical engineer
Sports
Baseball
- Dave Fuller (1915–2009), American college baseball coach
- Ed Fuller (1869–1935), American baseball pitcher
- Frank Fuller (baseball) (1893–1965), American baseball player
- Harry Fuller (baseball) (1862–1895), American baseball player, brother of Shorty Fuller
- Jim Fuller (outfielder) (born 1950), American baseball player
- Jimmy Fuller (1892–1987), American baseball player in the Negro leagues
- John Fuller (born 1950), American baseball player
- Nig Fuller (born Charles F. Furrer; 1878–1937), American baseball player
- Ryan Fuller (born 1990), American baseball coach
- Shorty Fuller (1867–1904), American baseball player, brother of Harry Fuller
- Vern Fuller (born 1944), American baseball player
Cricket
- Dickie Fuller (1913–1987), Jamaican cricketer
- Donald Fuller (1869–1936), New Zealand cricketer
- Eddie Fuller (1931–2008), South African cricketer
- Edwin Fuller (1850–1917), New Zealand cricketer
Football (gridiron)
- Aaron Fuller (American football) (born 1997), American football player
- Devin Fuller (born 1994), American football player
- Jeff Fuller (safety) (born 1962), American football player
- Jordan Fuller (born 1998), American football player
- Steve Fuller (American football) (born 1957), American football quarterback
Football (soccer)
- Barry Fuller (born 1984), English footballer
- Keysher Fuller (born 1994), Costa Rican footballer
- Ricardo Fuller (born 1979), Jamaican footballer
- Sarah Fuller (athlete) (born 1999), American soccer goalkeeper
Other
- Aaron Fuller (basketball) (born 1989), American basketball player
- Abigail Fuller (born 1959/1960), American Thoroughbred horse jockey
- Danny Fuller (surfer) (born 1982), American surfer, photographer, artist and model
- Debbie Fuller (born 1966), Canadian diver
- Freddy Stephen Fuller, Canadian boxer
- Jeff Fuller (racing driver) (born 1957), American racing driver
- Nikki Fuller (born 1968), American bodybuilder and actress
- Peter D. Fuller (1923–2012), American Thoroughbred owner and businessman, father of Abigail Fuller
- Rick Fuller (born 1967), American wrestler
- Wendy Fuller (born 1965), Canadian diver
Writing
- Alexandra Fuller (born 1969), British writer
- Bryan Fuller (born 1969), American screenwriter
- Charles Fuller (1939–2022), American playwright
- Errol Fuller (born 1947), English author of several books on extinction
- Henry B. Fuller (1857–1929), writer
- J. Fuller, publisher in 18th century England
- Jean Overton Fuller (1915–2009), British biographer
- John Fuller (poet) (born 1937), English poet
- John G. Fuller, (1913–1990), American author
- Margaret Fuller (1810–1850), American journalist and women's rights activist
- Peter Fuller (1948–1990), British art critic and writer
- Roy Fuller (1912–1991), English poet, father of poet John Fuller
- Uriah Fuller, pen name used by American mathematician Martin Gardner
Other
- Aaron Fuller (disambiguation), multiple people
- David Fuller (born 1954), British murderer and necrophile
- Doris Fuller (died 1962), American bridge player
- Edward Fuller (disambiguation), multiple people
- Elizabeth Fuller (school founder) (1644–1709), British benefactress
- Ida Fuller (1854–1930), American co-founder of Sigma Kappa sorority
- Ida May Fuller (1874–1975), centenarian and first American recipient of social security
- Kyle Fuller (disambiguation), multiple people
- Loie Fuller (1862–1928), American modern dance pioneer
- Maud A. B. Fuller (1868–1972), American educator and missionary
- Maxwell Fuller (1945–2013), Australian chess player
- Michael Fuller (born 1959), British chief constable
- Millard Fuller (1935–2009), American humanitarian
- Minnie Rutherford Fuller (1868–1946), American farmer, broker, temperance leader, suffragist
- Robert Fuller (disambiguation), multiple people
- Sarah E. Fuller (1838–1913), national president, Woman's Relief Corps
- Steve Fuller (sociologist) (born 1959), American philosopher
- Victoria Fuller (model) (born 1970), American model
- William Fuller (disambiguation), multiple people
See also
- Chris Fuller, fictional character in the American fantasy sitcom Out of This World
- Fuller (disambiguation)
- Fullmer
- Fullerton (disambiguation)
References
- ^ Browne, W.A.F.; Reaney, P.H.; Wilson, R.M.; Scull, A. (1991). A Dictionary of English Surnames. Tavistock classics in the history of psychiatry. Routledge. p. 1244. ISBN 978-0-415-05737-0. Retrieved 26 August 2018.