Yule (surname)
Yule or Youell or Youle or Youll or Yuill is a given name or surname generally of British origin. Yule as a name is derived from the pagan festival of the same name, used for those born at Christmas time.[1]
People with the name
Given name
- Youell Swinney (1917–1994), American suspected murderer
Surname
- Francis J. Youell (1883–1967), namegiver to the American football stadium Frank Youell Field
- John Clinton Youle (1916-1999), American meteorologist, newspaper editor, and politician
- Mike Youle (born 1960), British doctor and clinical researcher specializing in HIV treatment
- Wayne Youle (born 1974), New Zealand artist
- Henry Youll (also, Youell) (fl.1608), English madrigalist and composer
- Jack Youll (1897–1918), English recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Michael Youll (born 1939), English cricketer
- Oliver Youll (born 1970), English cricketer
- Paul Youll (born 1965), English science fiction artist, twin brother of Stephen
- Stephen Youll (born 1965), English science fiction artist, twin brother of Paul
- Ian Yuill (born 1964), Scottish politician
- Jimmy Yuill (born 1956), Scottish actor
- P. B. Yuill, pseudonym for Gordon Williams (born 1934) and Terry Venables (born 1943)
- Robert Yuill (1924–2006), Canadian politician in Toronto
- Annie Henrietta Yule (1874–1950), British film financier and breeder of Arabian horses
- Billy Yule (born c.1954), sit-in drummer for The Velvet Underground in 1970
- Bob Yule (1920–53), New Zealand-born fighter pilot of the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain and Second World War
- Charles Bampfield Yule (1806–78), Royal Naval explorer and author
- Sir David Yule, 1st Baronet (1858–1928), Scottish businessman based in India
- David Yule (field hockey) (born 1974), Canadian field hockey player
- Doug Yule (born 1947), American musician and singer, member of The Velvet Underground 1968–1973
- George Yule (businessman) (1829–92), Scottish merchant in England and India who served as the fourth President of the Indian National Congress in 1888 at Allahabad
- George Yule (linguist) (born 1947), British linguist
- Henry Yule (1820–89), Scottish orientalist
- James B. Yule (1884–1957), American Forestry Engineer
- John S. Yule, Presbyterian missionary who tried to set up a mission on the Walcott Inlet in Western Australia
- Joe Yule (1892–1950), Scottish-American vaudeville comedian, father of Mickey Rooney
- Lucy Yule, in whose memory St. Mary's Church, Middle Swan, Western Australia, was founded in 1840 (wife of T.N. Yule)
- Paul Yule (photojournalist) (active from 1980), British photographer and film maker
- Paul Alan Yule (active from 1981), German archaeologist
- T.N. Yule, magistrate in Western Australia, and his wife Lucy, in whose memory St. Mary's Church, Middle Swan, was founded
- Thomas Yule (born 1976), South African-born Scottish weightlifter
- Tom Yule (born 1888), Scottish footballer
- Tommy Yule (born 1953), Scottish footballer
- Udny Yule (1871–1951), Scottish statistician
References
- Cottle, Basil (1967). The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 331.
See also
- Huell
- "You'll, a contraction of "you will"
- Yul (disambiguation)
- Yule (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles containing Hewell
- All pages with titles containing Youell
- All pages with titles containing Youll
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