Tully
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Tully is a surname of Irish
origin. The surname itself and its variants include; Tally, MacTully, Tilly and Flood, all of which can derive from several different unrelated Irish families such as; Ó Maoltuile, Taithligh, Mac Maoltuile, Ó Taithligh, and Mac an Tuile. Some MacTullys changed their name to Flood as "tuile" is Irish for flood.
Tully is also an anglicised form of the Irish word tulach or tulaigh meaning a hill or mound, and is used in various Irish place names.
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origin. The surname itself and its variants include; Tally, MacTully, Tilly and Flood, all of which can derive from several different unrelated Irish families such as; Ó Maoltuile, Taithligh, Mac Maoltuile, Ó Taithligh, and Mac an Tuile. Some MacTullys changed their name to Flood as "tuile" is Irish for flood.
Tully is also an anglicised form of the Irish word tulach or tulaigh meaning a hill or mound, and is used in various Irish place names.
List of persons with the surname
- Charlie TullyCharlie TullyCharles Patrick "Charlie" Tully was a famous footballer of Celtic Football Club.Tully was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. In 1944 he was struggling to break into a very strong Belfast Celtic team and in a bid to garner better match experience was sent on loan to Cliftonville F.C....
, footballer from Belfast - George TullyGeorge TullyGeorge Tully was a carpenter and surveyor in Bristol, England.Born in Surrey, he was apprenticed to carpenters in Bristol and became a burgess in 1715.He died in 1770....
(died 1770), carpenter and surveyor - James Tully (disambiguation), various, including
- James Tully (Irish politician), Irish politician
- Jim TullyJim TullyJim Tully was a vagabond, pugilist, and American writer. His critical and commercial success in the 1920s and 30s may qualify him as the greatest long shot in American literature.Born near St...
, American writer - Kivas TullyKivas TullyKivas Tully was an Irish-Canadian architect.Born in Garryvacum in County Laois, Ireland, Kivas Tully was the son of John P. Tully, a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and Alicia Willington...
(1820–1905), American architect - Mark TullyMark TullySir William "Mark" Tully, OBE is the former Chief of Bureau, BBC, New Delhi. He worked for BBC for a period of 30 years before resigning in July 1994. He held the position of Chief of Bureau, BBC, Delhi for 20 years. Since 1994 he has been working as a freelance journalist and broadcaster based in...
, British author and reporter - Matthew TullyMatthew TullyMatthew Tully is a military law columnist based out of Albany, NY. He writes an “Ask the Lawyer” column for The Army Times and The Military Times, branches of The Army Times Publishing Company, a Gannett subsidiary....
, an American attorney and English solicitor - Mike TullyMike TullyMichael Scott Tully is an American pole vaulter. He represented the United States twice in the Olympics, earning a silver in 1984, and held the American pole vault record from 1984 to 1985.-Early career:...
(born 1956), American pole vaulter - Montgomery TullyMontgomery TullyMontgomery Tully was an Irish film director and writer. Born in Dublin, Tully worked on low-budget British films, mostly crime dramas. One of his efforts, No Road Back, featured a young Sean Connery in a very early role...
(1904–1988), Irish film director - R. Brent TullyR. Brent TullyR. Brent Tully is an astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy in Honolulu, Hawaii.Tully's specialty is astrophysics of galaxies. He, along with J. Richard Fisher, proposed the now-famous Tully-Fisher relation in a paper, A New Method of Determining Distances to Galaxies, published in Astronomy...
, astronomer - Rush TullyRush TullyRush Tully is an American composer and operatic bass-baritone who performed many seasons with Lyric Opera of Chicago in the company of such luminaries as Plácido Domingo, Mirella Freni, Alfredo Kraus, Paul Plishka and Nicolai Ghiaurov...
(born 1949), American opera singer - Sean TullySean TullySean Tully, is a fictional character in the UK television ITV soap opera, Coronation Street. Portrayed by actor Antony Cotton, the character first appeared on screen during the episode airing on 13 July 2003. Sean works as a factory machinist, and as a part-time barman in the Rovers Return...
, fictional character in Coronation Street - Steve TullySteve TullyStephen Richard Tully is an English footballer, currently playing in defence for League One side Exeter City. He was born in Paignton, Devon....
(born 1980), English footballer - Susan TullySusan TullySusan Tully is an English television producer, director and former actress.Her most prominent television roles to date have been those of single mother Michelle Fowler in the BBC soap opera EastEnders and her pivotal part in early Grange Hill...
(born 1968), English TV director, former actress in EastEnders - Thomas TullyThomas TullyThomas Tully was an English clergyman of Calvinist views.-Life:The son of George Tully of Carlisle, he was born in St. Mary's parish there on 22 July 1620. He was educated in the parish free school under John Winter, and afterwards at Barton Kirk in Westmorland. He matriculated at The Queen's...
(1620–1676), English clergyman - Tom Tully (comic writer)Tom Tully (comic writer)Tom Tully is a noted British comic writer mostly of sports and action stories. He is probably most famous as the longest-running writer of the popular football-themed strip Roy of the Rovers, which he wrote for much of Roy Race's playing career until the weekly comic closed in 1993.-Biography:From...
, British writer of Roy of the Rovers - Tom TullyTom TullyTom Tully was an American actor.-Biography:Born in Durango, Colorado, Thomas Kane Tulley served in the United States Navy, was a private pilot and worked as junior reporter for the Denver Post before going into acting because he felt the pay was better. Tully started out on stage before eventually...
(1908–1982), American actor
List of persons with the given name
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, sometimes anglicized as Tully, Roman orator and statesman
- Alexander HamiltonAlexander HamiltonAlexander Hamilton was a Founding Father, soldier, economist, political philosopher, one of America's first constitutional lawyers and the first United States Secretary of the Treasury...
, known by the pen name Tully, wrote editorials denouncing the instigators of the Whiskey Rebellion - Tully Banta-CainTully Banta-CainTully Banta-Cain is an American football linebacker who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the New England Patriots in the seventh round of the 2003 NFL Draft. He played college football at California.Banta-Cain earned two Super Bowl rings during his first stint with the Patriots...
, American football player - Tully BevilaquaTully BevilaquaTully Louise Bevilaqua is an Australian professional women's basketball player. She currently plays for the San Antonio Silver Stars in the WNBA and the West Coast Waves in Australia's WNBL....
, Australian professional basketball player - Tully BlanchardTully BlanchardTully Arthur Blanchard is a semi-retired second generation American professional wrestler. He is best known as an original member of the Four Horsemen....
, American professional wrestler - Tully CrookTully CrookTully Crook is an English artist. After training at St Martins School of Art he had an extensive career in advertising...
, British artist - Tully JensenTully JensenAlicia Tully Jensen is a model and an actress. She is 5'7", and her measurements are 34B-25-35. She has been on the cover of Playboy, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Elle, and Mademoiselle magazines...
, model - Tully MarshallTully MarshallWilliam Phillips was an American character actor known as Tully Marshall, with nearly a quarter century of theatrical experience behind before he made his first film appearance in 1914.-Career:...
, American actor - Tully SatreTully SatreTully Satre is an American gay rights activist and gay writer. In June 2005, Tully Satre founded Equality Fauquier-Culpeper in the rural suburbs of Virginia. Equality Fauquier-Culpeper was noted that summer in The Washington Post, The Washington Blade, and other news outlets such as The Advocate...
, American gay rights activist