Coulter (surname)
Map of Gaelic Ireland showing Ulidia (kingdom) circa 900 A.D.
Coulter is a surname of ancient Gael royals. The O’Coulter (I. O’Coltarain) chiefs ruled Dal Coirb in the portion of Gaelic Ireland's Ulidia (kingdom) that is now the Barony (Ireland) of Castlereagh.[1] Ulidia kingdom was the last patrimony of the Ulaid nation.
Notable people
Lt. Gen. John B. Coulter, thrice recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal (US Army)
- Allen Coulter, American director
- Ann Coulter, American author and conservative political commentator
- Ashley Coulter, Canadian singer
- Catherine Coulter, American novelist
- E. Merton Coulter, American historian
- James Coulter (financier) is co-founder of private equity firm TPG Capital
- Joey Coulter, race car driver
- John Coulter (politician), Australian politician
- John B. Coulter, American general during the Korean War
- John Merle Coulter, American botanist, brother of Stanley Coulter
- Joseph Coulter, Archdeacon
- Lynn Coulter, American author
- Michael Coulter (born 1952), Scottish cinematographer
- Phil Coulter (* 1942), Irish musician
- Philip B. Coulter (* 1939; Philip Brooks Coulter), American political scientist and professor emeritus (Prof. em.) of political science (lastly at the University of New Orleans/UNO)
- Richard Coulter (US politician), United States Congressman
- Richard Coulter (general), American Civil War general
- Ricki-Lee Coulter, Australian singer
- Robert Coulter, Northern Irish politician
- Stanley Coulter, American botanist, brother of John Merle Coulter
- Tex Coulter, Canadian football player
- Thomas Coulter, Irish physician, botanist, and explorer
- Wallace H. Coulter, American inventor and entrepreneur (brother of Joseph Coulter)
- William A. Coulter (1849–1936), American marine painter
Fictional characters:
- Marisa Coulter, character in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy
Places
- Coulter, South Lanarkshire
- Coulterville, California
- Coulterville, Illinois
- Coulterville, Ontario
- Coulterville, Pennsylvania
See also
- Beckman Coulter
- Coulter (agriculture)
- Coulter counter
- Coulter's Lupine
- Coulter's Matilija poppy
- Coulter pine
- Coulter's sage
- Recipients of the Legion of Merit, 3 awards to 2 Coulter
References
- ↑ John O'Hart, Irish Pedigrees; or, The Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation, 5th edition, in two volumes, originally published in Dublin in 1892, reprinted, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1976, Vol. 1, p. 819
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