Fuller (surname)

Fuller is a surname referring to someone who treats wool with the process called Fulling (a process also known as walking—or waulking in Scotland—and tucking, hence the names Walker and Tucker) and may refer to:

  • Alexandra Fuller, British writer
  • Alfred Fuller (1885–1973), Canadian businessman
  • Allen Curtis Fuller (1822–1901), Attorney General of Illinois during the American Civil War
  • Alvan T. Fuller (1878–1958), U.S. politician from Massachusetts
  • Andrew Fuller, British Baptist minister
  • Andrew Fuller (entomologist) (1828–1896), American entomologist
  • Barry Fuller, English footballer
  • Ben Hebard Fuller (1870–1937), U.S. Marine Corps general
  • Blind Boy Fuller, stage name of U.S. blues singer and guitarist Fulton Allen
  • Bobby Fuller (1942–1966), U.S. rock singer and guitarist
  • Brad Fuller, Australian rules footballer
  • Bryan Fuller, American screenwriter
  • Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983), U.S. architect
  • Calvin Fuller (1902–1994), U.S. physical chemist, inventor of the solar cell
  • Charles Fuller (born 1939), U.S. playwright
  • Charles Edward Fuller (1887–1968), U.S. preacher and founder of Fuller Theological Seminary
  • Charles Eugene Fuller (1849–1926), U.S. congressman
  • Charles Fuller (Carolina) (1832–1901) (middle name Thomas), American soldier & politician from South Carolina
  • Claude A. Fuller (1876–1968), member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Arkansas
  • Claude Fuller (entomologist) (1872–1928), entomologist
  • Courtis Fuller, American broadcaster
  • Curtis Fuller, American jazz trombonist
  • Debbie Fuller (born 1966), Canadian diver
  • Dickie Fuller, Jamaican cricketer
  • Dolores Fuller (1923–2011), U.S. actress and composer, Ed Wood's companion
  • Drew Fuller (born 1980), American actor
  • Edward Fuller (1893–1918), U.S. Marine Corps officer, son of Ben H. Fuller
  • Eddie Fuller (1931–2008), South African cricketer
  • Dame Elizabeth Fuller, British benefactress
  • Frances Fuller, American actress
  • Frank Fuller (baseball) (1893–1965), Major League Baseball player
  • George Fuller (painter), American artist
  • George Fuller (Australian politician)
  • George A. Fuller (1851–1900), the "inventor" of modern skyscrapers
  • Gerald Fuller, American chemical engineer
  • Henry B. Fuller (born 1857), writer
  • Horace H. Fuller, American soldier
  • Ida Fuller, co-founder of Sigma Kappa sorority
  • Ida May Fuller (1874–1975), centenarian and first U.S. recipient of Social Security
  • J. Fuller, editor in 18th century England
  • J. F. C. Fuller (1878–1966), British general and military historian
  • Jean Overton Fuller, British biographer
  • Jeff Fuller (racing driver), American racing driver
  • Jeff Fuller (safety), American football player
  • Jesse Fuller (1896–1976), American one-man-band musician
  • Jim Fuller (musician), American guitarist with The Surfaris
  • John Fuller (academic), Master of Jesus College, Cambridge (1557–1558)
  • John Fuller (bushranger), Australian bushranger
  • John Fuller (poet) (born 1937), English poet
  • John G. Fuller, (1913–1990), American author
  • John 'Mad Jack' Fuller (1757–1834), English politician, philanthropist and patron of the arts
  • John W. Fuller (1827–1891), Union general (American Civil War)
  • Joni Fuller, British musician
  • Kathryn S. Fuller, Alcoa director
  • Kurt Fuller, American actor
  • Linda Fuller, American humanitarian
  • Loie Fuller (1862–1928), American modern dance pioneer Marie Louise Fuller
  • Lon L. Fuller, legal philosopher
  • Margaret Fuller (1810–1850), American journalist and women's rights activist
  • Mary Fuller, American actress
  • Melville Fuller (1833–1910), Chief Justice of the United States of America
  • Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1867–1968), African-American artist
  • Michael Fuller, British chief constable
  • Millard Fuller, American humanitarian
  • Penny Fuller, American actress
  • Peter Fuller (1948–1990), British art critic and writer
  • Peter the Fuller, Patriarch of Antioch
  • Rachel Fuller, British musician
  • Reginald C. Fuller (born 1908), priest in Westminster/London, biblical scholar
  • Ricardo Fuller, Jamaican footballer
  • Richard Fuller (politician), British politician
  • Rick Fuller, American wrestler
  • Robert Fuller (disambiguation), one of several people
  • Ron Fuller (artist), British artist
  • Roy Fuller (1912–1991), English poet, father of John Fuller (poet)
  • Samuel Fuller (1911–1997), American movie director
  • Samuel Fuller (Pilgrim) (c. 1580 – 1633), English doctor, a founder of the colony at Plymouth, Massachusetts
  • Samuel B. Fuller (1905–1988), African-American entrepreneur
  • Simon Fuller, British record and television producer
  • Steve Fuller (American football)
  • Steve Fuller (sociologist), Anglo-American philosopher
  • Thomas Fuller (1608–1661), English cleric
  • Thomas Fuller (architect), Canadian architect
  • Thomas Fuller (physician) (1654–1734), English physician and collector of adages in his Gnomologia
  • Uriah Fuller, pen name used by U.S. mathematician Martin Gardner
  • Victoria Fuller, American model
  • Wendy Fuller (born 1965), Canadian diver
  • Wilfred Fuller, British soldier
  • William Fuller (disambiguation), one of several people

Famous quotes containing the word fuller:

    Water inflated the belly
    Of Hart Crane, and of Shelley.
    Coleridge was a dope.
    Southwell died on a rope.
    —Roy Fuller (b. 1912)