Hull

Hull may refer to:

• Hull (watercraft), the body or frame of a ship
• Chassis of an armored fighting vehicle
• Fuselage of an aircraft
• Husk or hull, the outer covering of a fruit or vegetable

In mathematics

• Affine hull, in affine geometry
• Convex hull, in geometry
• Carathéodory's theorem (convex hull)
• Holomorphically convex hull, in complex analysis
• Injective hull of a module
• Linear hull, another name for the linear span
• Skolem hull of mathematical logic

Places

England

• Kingston upon Hull (almost invariably abbreviated to Hull), a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire named after the River Hull (King's town upon Hull, prior to 1299 Wyke upon Hull)
  • River Hull, river in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England
  • Hull City A.F.C., English football team
  • Hull F.C., rugby league club formed in 1865, based in the west of the city
  • Hull Kingston Rovers (Hull KR), rugby league club formed in 1882, based in the east of the city
  • Hull Stingrays ice hockey team (formerly the Humberside Seahawks).
  • The University of Hull, a university in England
  • Sutton-on-Hull, a suburb of Kingston upon Hull
  • Port of Hull, a major passenger and freight port in Kingston upon Hull

Canada

• Hull, Quebec, a former city in Québec (now part of the city of Gatineau)
• Hull (provincial electoral district), provincial electoral district in Quebec
• Hull—Aylmer, a Canadian federal electoral district

French Polynesia

• Îles Maria, an island in the Austral Islands, formerly called Hull Island

Kiribati

• Orona, an island that was formerly called Hull Island

Slovakia

• Hul, Nové Zámky District, known as Hull in Hungarian

United States

• Hull, Georgia
• Hull, Illinois
• Hull, Iowa
• Hull, Massachusetts
• Hull, Texas
• Hull, West Virginia
• Hull, Marathon County, Wisconsin
• Hull, Portage County, Wisconsin

People

• Alan Hull, English musician and songriter
• Blair Hull, an American businessman and politician
• Bobby Hull (born 1939), a former Canadian ice hockey player
• Brett Hull (born 1964), a former Canadian ice hockey player, and son of Bobby Hull
• Chuck Hull, inventor of stereolithography
• Clark L. Hull (1884-1952), an American psychologist
• Cordell Hull (1871–1955), United States Secretary of State from 1933-1944 under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945
• Dennis Hull (born 1944), a former Canadian ice hockey player, and brother of Bobby Hull
• Edith Maude Hull (1880-1947), British writer, author of the novel The Sheik
• Edgar Hull (1904-1984), Louisiana physician
• Frank Montgomery Hull, Entomologist
• Henry Hull (1890-1977), American actor
• Isaac Hull, early United States Naval officer, Captain of the USS Constitution during the battle with HMS Guerriere
• James L. Hull, American Medal of Honor recipient
• John C. Hull, a Professor of Derivatives and Risk Management at the University of Toronto
• John M. Hull, Emeritus Professor of Religious Education at the University of Birmingham
• Katherine Hull (born 1982), Australian golfer
• Kay Hull, Australian politician
• Laurens Hull (1779–1865), New York politician
• Merlin Hull, U.S. Congressman from Wisconsin
• Rae Hull, Canadian journalist
• Rod Hull (1935-1999), English entertainer
• Tom Hull, mathematical origamist
• Warren Hull (1903-1974), film actor and TV personality
• William Hull, an American general during the American Revolutionary War and War of 1812

Other uses

• Hull House, settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, USA
• USS Hull, any of four U.S. Navy ships
• Hull–White model of interest rates, in economics

See also

• All pages beginning with "Hull"
• All pages with titles containing "Hull"
• Hulk (ship)