Mullen is a surname

Family name

A family name is a type of surname and part of a person's name indicating the family to which the person belongs. The use of family names is widespread in cultures around the world...

 of Irish

Irish people

The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

 and Scottish

Scottish people

The Scottish people , or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, incorporating neighbouring Britons to the south as well as invading Germanic peoples such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse.In modern use,...

 origin. It can be a variant of Mullins

Mullins (surname)

The surname Mullins is of Irish origin, and is akin to Mullen and McMillan . It may refer to:*Aimee Mullins , an American athlete and performer*Andria Mullins , an American beauty queen and performer...

, Moylan

Moylan

Moylan is a surname of Irish origin, and may refer to:* Douglas Moylan* Edward Moylan* Kaleo Moylan* Kurt Moylan* Pat Moylan* Pat Moylan * Peter Moylan Australian relief pitcher for the Atlanta Braves...

 or derived from the Gaelic

Goidelic languages

The Goidelic languages or Gaelic languages are one of the two branches of the Insular Celtic languages, the other consisting of the Brythonic languages. Goidelic languages historically formed a dialect continuum stretching from the south of Ireland through the Isle of Man to the north of Scotland...

 O'Meallain Sept of County Tyrone

County Tyrone

Historically Tyrone stretched as far north as Lough Foyle, and comprised part of modern day County Londonderry east of the River Foyle. The majority of County Londonderry was carved out of Tyrone between 1610-1620 when that land went to the Guilds of London to set up profit making schemes based on...

, usually anglicized as Mallon. Mullen can also derive from the forname of Maelan

Maelan mac Cathmogha

-Origins:Maelan appears to be one of the earliest recorded kings of the territory of Maigh Seola, later known as Uí Briúin Seóla. He is not recorded in the genealogies, of which Francis John Byrne has this to say:...

 and its downstream sept Mac Maolain

Mac Maolain

-Overview:Mac Maoláin was a surname borne by a number of unrelated families in Gaelic Ireland, found in Breifne, Mide, Brega, and ConnachtNow anglicized MacMullen, MacMullan, McMillan, MacMoylan, McMullen, McMullan and McMullin.-Mac Maoláin of Maigh Seóla:...

, Lord of Gaileanga Mor d.1144 AD or alternately connect to a branch located in Ulster

Ulster

Ulster is one of the four provinces of Ireland, located in the north of the island. In ancient Ireland, it was one of the fifths ruled by a "king of over-kings" . Following the Norman invasion of Ireland, the ancient kingdoms were shired into a number of counties for administrative and judicial...

 Province where it is often a form of the Scottish name MacMillan. http://www.irishabroad.com/Yourroots/Familynames/SurnameView.asp?id=696

People

• Mullen, Brian
  Brian Mullen
  Brian Patrick Mullen is a former professional ice hockey player who spent eleven seasons in the NHL playing for the Winnipeg Jets, New York Rangers, San Jose Sharks, and New York Islanders...
  
   (1962–) former NHL player
• Mullen, Dan
  Dan Mullen
  -External links:** on Bulldog Junction's website* article on Coach Mullen as new MSU head coach* Dan Mullen goes from Trinity star QB to Mississippi State head coach...
  
   (1972-), American college football coach
• Mullen, David
  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 printmaking art and has worked in black and white...
  
   (1952–), artist and photographer
• Mullen, David
  David Mullen (singer)
  David Mullen is a former University of Florida football player, turned Contemporary Christian music singer, songwriter and producer. He released his first album in 1989, and won the GMA Dove Award for New Artist of the Year in 1990. He later married fellow Christian singer Nicole C. Mullen,...
  
  , Christian singer and producer
• Mullen, Harryette
  Harryette Mullen
  Harryette Mullen is an American poet, short story writer, and literary scholar. She was born in Florence, Alabama, grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and attended graduate school at the University of California, Santa Cruz. As of 2008, she lives in Los...
  
   (1953–)
• Mullen, James T.
  James T. Mullen
  James T. Mullen was the first Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus from February 2, 1882 to May 17, 1886....
  
   (1843–1891)
• Mullen, Jamil Giovanni
  Jamil Mullen
  -Biography:After graduating from Columbia University, with a degree in cultural anthropology, Jamil decided on a career in television as a means of educating people about diversity...
  
  , actress
• Mullen, Jarrod
  Jarrod Mullen
  Jarrod Stephen Mullen is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who currently plays for the Newcastle Knights of the National Rugby League . A New South Wales State of Origin representative half, he has played his entire career to date with the Knights.Born in Singleton in Northern...
  
   (1987–) current NRL player
• Mullen, Jeff
  Jeff Mullen
  Jeff Mullen is an American football offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach and the current offensive coordinator of the Charlotte 49ers. Mullen was previously an assistant coach at Ohio University, Wake Forest, and West Virginia University.-Early life:...
  
  , assistant football coach for West Virginia University
  West Virginia University
  West Virginia University is a public research university in Morgantown, West Virginia, USA. Other campuses include: West Virginia University at Parkersburg in Parkersburg; West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Montgomery; Potomac State College of West Virginia University in Keyser;...
  
  
• Mullen, Jerry
  Jerry Mullen
  Jerry Mullen was an American basketball player. He was an All-American at the University of San Francisco and a second round draft pick of the New York Knicks....
  
   (1933–1979) college basketball player (San Francisco
  San Francisco Dons men's basketball
  The San Francisco Dons basketball team represents the University of San Francisco in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I men's college basketball. The Dons compete in the West Coast Conference, in which they have won sixteen regular season and one conference tournament...
  
  )
• Mullen, Jim
  Jim Mullen
  Jim Mullen is a Glasgow-born jazz guitarist with a distinctive style, like Wes Montgomery before him, picking with the thumb rather than a plectrum.-Biography:...
  
   (1945–)
• Mullen, Jimmy (1923–1987) football player
• Mullen, Jimmy (1952–) former football player and manager
• Mullen, Joe
  Joe Mullen
  Joseph Patrick Mullen is a retired American professional ice hockey player who played 17 seasons in the National Hockey League with the St. Louis Blues, Calgary Flames, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Boston Bruins from 1980–1997. He won three Stanley Cups in 1989 with Calgary, and in 1991 and 1992 with...
  
   (1957–) former NHL player
• Mullen, Johnny Rodney
  Rodney Mullen
  John Rodney Mullen is a professional freestyle and street skateboarder. He is widely acknowledged as one of the most innovative and influential street skaters in the history of skateboarding...
  
   (1966–) Professional Skateboarder
• Mullen, Kathryn
  Kathryn Mullen
  Kathryn "Kathy" Mullen is an actress, voice actress, and puppeteer most closely associated with Jim Henson projects. She began performing on The Muppet Show in its third season, primarily as Gaffer the Backstage Cat...
  
  
• Mullen, Keith
  Keith Mullen
  Keith Mullin was the English lead guitarist of the Liverpool based pop group The Farm.He was born in Bootle and lived in Seaforth, Waterloo and Crosby before moving to Liverpool City Centre...
  
   (1961–)
• Mullen, Kimberly Janine (1972-)
• Mullen, Kimberly Danielle
  Kim Mullen
  Kimberly Danelle Mullen is a former beauty queen who has competed in the Miss USA pageant...
  
   (1979–)
• Mullen, Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Jr.
  Larry Mullen Jr.
  Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Mullen, Jr. is an Irish musician best known as the drummer for the Irish rock band U2. He is the founder of U2, which he later described as "'The Larry Mullen Band' for about ten minutes, then Bono walked in and blew any chance I had of being in charge." He has worked on...
  
  , (1961–) drummer for U2
• Mullen, Maire
• Mullen, Mark
  Mark Mullen
  Mark Edward Mullen is an Emmy Award-winning TV 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...
  
  , NBC News Chief and Reporter
• Mullen, Marie
  Marie Mullen
  Marie Mullen is an Irish actress.She was one of the founding members of the Druid Theatre Company and her husband has been associated with the company many times in the past...
  
  
• Mullen, Michael
  Michael Mullen
  Michael Glenn "Mike" Mullen is a retired United States Navy four-star 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 Naval Operations from July 22, 2005 to September 29, 2007...
  
   (1946–) Admiral
  Admiral
  Admiral is the rank, or part of the name of the ranks, of the highest naval officers. It is usually considered a full admiral and above vice admiral and below admiral of the fleet . It is usually abbreviated to "Adm" or "ADM"...
  
   in U.S. Navy (retired) and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is by law the highest ranking military officer in the United States Armed Forces, and is the principal military adviser to the President of the United States, the National Security Council, the Homeland Security Council and the Secretary of Defense...
  
  
• Mullen, Molly , famous author of mystery novels featuring accounting and information systems dilemmas
• Mullen, Moon
  Moon Mullen
  Ford Parker "Moon" Mullen is a former 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 and threw right-handed...
  
  , Catholic Photographer
• Mullen, Nicole Coleman
  Nicole C. Mullen
  Aileen Nicole Coleman-Mullen, known professionally as Nicole C. Mullen, is an award-winning singer, songwriter, and choreographer. She was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio.-Music career:...
  
   (1967–)
• Mullen, Patrick, multiple people
• Mullen, Peg
  Peg Mullen
  Margaret E. Mullen , best known as Peg Mullen, became an antiwar activist, after the death of her son in Vietnam, who had been killed by shrapnel fired from friendly artillery in a 1970 incident. She became an active opponent of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and protested against the Gulf War...
  
   (1917-2009), American antiwar activist
• Mullen, Rodney
  Rodney Mullen
  John Rodney Mullen is a professional freestyle and street skateboarder. He is widely acknowledged as one of the most innovative and influential street skaters in the history of skateboarding...
  
  
• Mullen, Rónán
  Rónán Mullen
  Rónán Thomas Mullen is an independent Irish Senator and delegate to the Council of Europe. He was elected in the National University of Ireland Seanad constituency in July 2007 and re-elected for a second term in 2011. Mullen is a frequent media commentator on social and political topics...
  
  
• Mullen, Samuel
  Samuel Mullen
  Samuel Mullen was an Irish-born bookseller, active in Australia. Mullen was born in Dublin, Ireland, the son of George Mullen, a bookseller, and his wife Eliza, née Orson. Mullen was educated at Nuttgrove College and later at Trinity College, Dublin...
  
   (1828–1890)
• Mullen, Sheila
  Sheila Mullen
  Sheila Mullen is an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its May 1977 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus....
  
   (1957–)
• Mullen, Stacie (1965–) founder of Nutrisystems Diet
  Nutrisystems Diet
  Nutrisystem, headquartered in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, is a commercial provider of weight loss products and services. Initially, the company offered weight loss counseling and products in brick and mortar centers. In 1999, the company moved to a direct-to-consumer business model, selling its...
  
  
• Mullen, Tobias
  Tobias Mullen
  Tobias Mullen was an Irish-born clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Erie from 1868 to 1899.-Biography:...
  
   (1818–1900)
• Mullen, Darsey (1964-)

Other meanings

• Mullen Advertising
  Mullen Advertising
  Mullen is an American advertising and marketing communications agency based in Boston, Massachusetts. One of its more notable campaigns was creating the Monster.com Super Bowl commercial When I Grow Up. The agency has also earned critical acclaim for its viral film Pac-Man Puppet Show. Mullen is a...
  
  , an advertising firm based in Boston, MA
• Mullen, California
  Mullen, California
  Mullen is a former settlement in Yolo County, California. It was located on the Southern Pacific Railroad south-southeast of Woodland, at an elevation of 69 feet . A 1913 book described Mullen, along with Merritt, as farming towns along the main automobile route from Davis to Woodland. It still...
  
  
• Mullen, Nebraska
  Mullen, Nebraska
  Mullen is a village in Hooker County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 491 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Hooker County.-Geography:Mullen is located at ....
  
  
• Mullen Township, Boyd County, Nebraska
  Mullen Township, Boyd County, Nebraska
  Mullen Township is one of nine townships in Boyd County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 47 at the 2000 census. A 2006 estimate placed the township's population at 42.-External links:*...
  
  
• JK Mullen High School in Denver, Colorado
• alternate spelling for mullein
  Mullein
  The Mulleins are a genus of about 250 species of flowering plants in the figwort family . They are native to Europe and Asia, with the highest species diversity in the Mediterranean region.They are biennial or perennial plants, rarely annuals or subshrubs, growing to 0.5–3 m tall...
  
  , a medicinal herb