Bulkeley (surname)

Bulkeley or Bulkley is a surname. Notable persons with that surname include:

• Charles Bulkeley Bulkeley-Johnson (1867–1917), British Officer
• Elisabeth Rivers-Bulkeley (1924-2006), Austrian stock broker
• Henry Bulkeley (c. 1641–1698), English courtier and politician
• James Michael Freke Bulkeley (1761–1796), Nova Scotian civil servant and political figure
• John D. Bulkeley (1911–1996), American Vice Admiral in United States Navy
• Lucius Duncan Bulkley (1845–1928), American dermatologist
• Mary Bulkley (1747/8–1792), British comedy and Shakespearean actress, and dancer
• Morgan Bulkeley (1837–1922), American politician, business and sports executive
• Peter Bulkley (1583–1659), English-born Puritan preacher and American colonist of Massachusetts
• Richard Bulkeley (died 1621) (fl.1563-1621), Welsh politician in the Elizabethan era
• Richard Bulkeley (governor) (1717-1800), Irish-born colonial governor of Nova Scotia
• Robert Bulkeley, 2nd Viscount Bulkeley (died 1688), MP for Anglesey 1660–61, Caernarvonshire 1675–79, and Anglesey 1685–89
• Robert Bulkeley (died 1702), son of 2nd Viscount, MP for Beaumaris 1701–02
• Robert J. Bulkley (1880–1965), American Congressman and Senator from Ohio
• Thomas Bulkeley, 1st Viscount Bulkeley (1585–1659), North Welsh landowner and Royalist supporter during the English Civil War
• Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley (1752–1822), English aristocrat and politician

See also

• Bulkeley was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915; originally named North Star, renamed in 1906.
• Bulkley River, a tributary of the Skeena River in north central British Columbia, named for an engineer for the Russian–American Telegraph project and explorer of the region
• Bulkley Valley, formed by the above-mentioned river