Cullinane (name)
The Irish surname Cullinane, Ó Cuilleanáin or Ó Cuilleannáin may refer to:
Surname:
The name seems to be related to Cullen. While Cullen is encountered primarily in Dublin and southeast Ireland, Cullinan/Cullinane used almost exclusively in western Ireland on a north–south-Axis from County Galway to County Cork.
Notable persons of the name are:
- Charlie Cullinane, Irish Sportsman
- David Cullinane, Sinn Féin TD in Waterford
- Sir Frederick Fitzjames Cullinan, Principal Clerk of the Chief Secretary's Office, Dublin Castle
- Joanna Cullinane, New Zealand professor of organisational studies at Massey University
- John Cullinan, Nationalist MP for Tipperary elected in 1900, remained in Westminster until 1918.
- John Cullinane, founder of Cullinet, an early software company.
- Majella Cullinane, New Zealand writer and poet
- The four nationalist Cullinane sisters of Newtown Kilmacthomas, County Waterford: eldest sister Mary, Katie, Hannah Imelda and Bridget Cullinane, active in the period after 1916.
- Maurice Cullinane, Washington, D.C., Police Chief and subject of a Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph and subsequent sculpture
- Seán Cullinane, Irish sportsman
- Seán Ó Cuilleanáin, Irish scribe and translator, fl. 1837–1845
- Dr. John Cullinane, archeologist and significant character in The Source by James Michener, 1965
- Karl Cullinane, main character in the Guardians of the Flame series by Joel Rosenberg