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- "Big John" Spurling and the Spurlin DNA Project · Genealogy mixed
John Spurlin (or Spurling) Sr., known to researchers as "Big John", lived in Orange, Chatham, Richmond and Lincoln counties, North Carolina, and left a will in 1822 naming 23 children. Y-DNA testing places a descendant in the same paternal line as the Jeremiah Spurling family of Virginia, but no document yet found names his parents.
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- A Spurlin Family in America (1987 genealogy) · Genealogy weak
A Spurlin Family in America is a 230-page family genealogy compiled by Quincy Haggard Spurlin and edited by George Spurlin, published in 1987. It follows one line from Jeremiah Spurling (1680–1725) down to George W. Spurlin (1854–1921) and a Texas branch; WikiTree places a man of that name in a Georgia and Alabama family that moved to Texas. - Al Spurlin · People strong
Alton Pearce "Al" Spurlin (1914–2000) was an American minor league first baseman from Atlanta who played for the Chattanooga Lookouts in 1935 and the Columbia Senators in 1936. - Andrew Barclay Spurling (Spurling variant) · People mixed
Andrew Barclay Spurling (1833–1906) was a Union cavalry officer from the Cranberry Isles, Maine, and a brevet brigadier general. He received the Medal of Honor for capturing Confederate soldiers near Evergreen, Alabama, in 1865, and is buried in Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago. - Andrew Jackson Spurlin (1817–1923) · Genealogy mixed
Andrew Jackson "Uncle Jack" Spurlin (died 1923) was a North Carolina-born farmer and miller in Grayson County, Virginia. His grave memorial and obituary made him 105 or 106, but the 1860 and 1870 censuses put his birth around 1830. - Andy Spurlin Ministries · Companies strong
Andy Spurlin Ministries is a Christian nonprofit ministry based in Park Rapids, Minnesota, led by pastor Andy Spurlin and dating its work to 2003. - Arthur Spurling (Spurling variant) · People strong
Arthur Rowe Spurling (1896–1984) was a Bermudian infantryman and airman who became a First World War flying ace with six credited victories. He won the Distinguished Flying Cross for a 1918 action in which he and his observer fought their way through a formation of about thirty German fighters. - Ashley Spurlin · People strong
Ashley Spurlin is a U.S. Air Force combat controller and Bronze Star recipient who competed on season 2 of History Channel's Top Shot (2011).
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- Bell & Spurling (Spurling variant) · People strong
Bell & Spurling are an English comedy-music duo, Martin Bell and Johnny Spurling. They are best known for the 2001 football novelty single "Sven, Sven, Sven", which entered the UK Singles Chart at number seven. - Benjamin Spurling of the Cranberry Isles · History mixed
Benjamin Spurling (1752–1836) was a New Hampshire-born sea captain and Revolutionary War militia corporal. He is described as the first permanent settler of Great Cranberry Island, Maine, founded a long line of Spurlings there, and is buried in the family's Revolutionary War cemetery above Spurling Cove. - Bert Spurlin (assistant director) · People strong
Bert Spurlin (1899–1957) was a Kentucky-born Hollywood property man and assistant director. He is credited on films from the 1930s to the 1950s and on 88 episodes of the television comedy Our Miss Brooks. - Bill Spurlin (broadcast engineer) · People strong
William J. "Bill" Spurlin is a Boston radio engineer who was WBCN's chief engineer in 1971–72, ran maintenance and transmission at WGBH-FM in the mid-1980s, and later worked on satellite radio distribution and digital audio broadcasting at The Christian Science Monitor. - Board of Education v. Spurlin (Colorado, 1960) · History strong
Board of Education v. Spurlin, 141 Colo. 508 (1960), was a Colorado Supreme Court case against E. T. Spurlin as state controller. The court held that officers of the State Department of Education were exempt from the classified civil service. - Bob Spurlin (baseball) · People strong
Robert Eugene "Bob" Spurlin (born 1958) is an American former minor league catcher, drafted by the San Francisco Giants in 1980 out of Northern Illinois University, who played in the Giants and Pirates systems through 1984. - Bob Spurlin (minister) · People mixed
Robert Dean "Bob" Spurlin (1945–2016) was an Alabama-born preacher in the Churches of Christ and the author of inspirational books, including Tackling Life's Troubles (2000) and Don't Ever Give Up (2003), published by Sain Publications. - Books by Spurlin authors · Culture strong
A bibliography of books by authors surnamed Spurlin, from 1940s intellectual history and Texas military history to self-published fiction, compiled mainly from Open Library catalogue records. - Brittany Spurlin · People strong
Brittany Spurlin is an American games journalist, writer and editor. IMDb credits her as a writer on Dare Package (2020) and a segment producer on Camp VENN (2021), and she has written for Screen Rant, Fandom and Ubisoft. - Businesses with names similar to Spurlin · Miscellany mixed
Many businesses that turn up in searches for "Spurlin" actually bear the similar surnames Spurlino, Spurling or Spurlock. This page lists the most common ones.
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- Caleb Spurlin · People strong
Caleb Spurlin is an American former college football defensive end from Galax, Virginia. A three-time state champion wrestler, he walked on at Appalachian State, where he tied the school record of 66 career games (2017–2021). - Carl Spurlin Dekle (WWII veteran, viral interview) · People mixed
Carl Spurlin Dekle (1922–2022) was a Florida Marine and World War II veteran whose tearful interview on his 100th birthday was widely shared, and reposted again in 2025–26. Spurlin, his middle name, was his mother's maiden name. - Charles D. Spurlin (historian) · History mixed
Charles Dennis Spurlin (1932–2013) was a Texas historian and Victoria College professor. He wrote Texas Volunteers in the Mexican War and a history of Waller's 13th Texas Cavalry Battalion, and edited the Civil War diary of Charles A. Leuschner. - Chris Spurlin (Oxford, Alabama) · People strong
Chris Spurlin is a Baptist pastor and former police officer who has served on the Oxford, Alabama, city council since 2008. He holds the Place 4 seat and is council president. - Chris Spurling (Spurling variant) · People strong
Chris Spurling (born 1977) is an American former Major League Baseball relief pitcher who played for the Detroit Tigers and Milwaukee Brewers from 2003 to 2007. - Cindy Shore Spurlin · People strong
Cindy Shore Spurlin is a former Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (ABAC) softball player. She was a 1992 NJCAA All-American, set several school single-season records and entered the ABAC Athletic Hall of Fame in 2026. - Claribel Spurling (Spurling variant) · People strong
Claribel Spurling (1875–1941) was an English history teacher and headmistress who became a First World War codebreaker with British military intelligence (MI1(b)). She was the only candidate to score 100% on its supposedly impossible entrance test, and later worked for the Government Code and Cypher School. - Corey Spurlin · People mixed
Corey Spurlin is an American conductor and music educator who has directed the Auburn University Marching Band since 2007. He was briefly a finalist for the Ohio State marching band post in 2015.
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- Daniel R. Spurlin (Vietnam War) · History strong
First Lieutenant Daniel Raymond Spurlin (1942–1968) of Atlanta was a U.S. Army adviser with MACV Advisory Team 92. He was killed by small-arms fire in Go Cong Province, South Vietnam, on September 19, 1968, and is buried in Sandy Springs, Georgia. - Daniel Spurlin (Hardin County, Iowa, pioneer) · History strong
Daniel Spurlin (1807–1868) was a North Carolina-born blacksmith who settled in Union Township, Hardin County, Iowa, in 1851. He was killed in a sleigh accident on his way home from church meetings, is buried in Hauser Cemetery at Whitten, and county histories and newspapers record his family. - David Spurlin (painter) · People weak
David Spurlin Jr. (1923–2009) was a Los Angeles-born impressionist landscape and seascape painter and member of the California Art Club whose oils appear at regional auctions. - Dillon Spurlin (musician) · People mixed
Dillon Spurlin is a self-produced singer-songwriter from Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, who records and performs as "Spurlin" and released the album Hard Way in 2024. He has also played leading roles in Fargo–Moorhead musical theatre. - Don Spurlin (Albertville developer and candidate) · People strong
Don Spurlin is an Albertville, Alabama, builder, developer and founder of Don Spurlin Construction. He finished second in the 2008 Albertville mayoral race and lost the 2010 Republican runoff for Alabama Senate District 9 to Clay Scofield. - Don Spurlin Construction · Companies strong
Don Spurlin Construction, Inc. is a commercial general contractor and design-build firm based in Albertville, Alabama. The Better Business Bureau gives its start date as 1986 and the company's own site gives 1988. It was incorporated in 1994 and works across Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee. Its founder, Don Spurlin, ran for Albertville mayor in 2008 and for the Alabama State Senate in 2010. - Dr. Spurlin Circle (Berryville, Arkansas) · Places mixed
Dr. Spurlin Circle is a street in Berryville, Arkansas. The city's Berryville Community Center stands there at 601 Dr. Spurlin Circle. The street honors a local Dr. Spurlin; a family of Spurlin dentists practised in Berryville from 1903, though no published source says which of them the street is named for. A later practice on North Main Street, Spurlin Family Dentistry, has been run by a dentist of another name. - Dudley Spurling (Spurling variant) · People strong
Sir Dudley Spurling (1913–1986) was a Bermudian lawyer, 1936 Olympic swimmer, 1934 Empire Games discus thrower and Speaker of the House of Assembly of Bermuda (1972–76). He was a founding partner of the law firm now called Appleby. - Dwaine Spurlin · People strong
Dwaine Spurlin is a San Francisco jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer and leader of the Dwaine Spurlin Band (DSB). He played saxophone on LPs by Karlton Hester and Kwaku Dadey in the early 1980s and has led his own groups in the Bay Area since at least 1984.
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- Early English records of Spurling and Sperling · The Surname strong
Forms of the name appear in English records from the late 12th century, such as Alexander Sperling (Yorkshire, 1187). Nicholas Sperlyng sat for Wycombe in Parliament in 1402, and Tudor and Stuart records place Spurlinges in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire, west Middlesex and Buckinghamshire, and East Anglia, including the serjeant-at-law and MP John Spurling (d. 1603). - Early Spurlin and Spurling families in America · Genealogy mixed
Spurlin and Spurling families appear in colonial Virginia and North Carolina in the 18th century and moved west and south into Indiana, Alabama and Texas during the 19th century. Their European origins are still debated. - Ed Spurlin · People strong
Ed Spurlin is a former Auburn University football player from Opp, Alabama. He was listed as a quarterback in 1984, when he played in 12 games, and as a linebacker in 1985. - Emily Spurlin (pastry chef) · People strong
Emily Spurlin is a Chicago pastry chef who was a James Beard Award semifinalist for Outstanding Pastry Chef. She founded the pastry business sourbittersalty and has a sizeable following on Instagram. - Emma Spurlin Patman and Wright Patman · History strong
Emma (Spurlin) Patman was the mother of Wright Patman (1893–1976), a Texas congressman for 47 years, co-author of the Robinson–Patman Act and longtime chairman of the House Banking Committee. - Etymology of the Spurlin surname · The Surname strong
Scholarly surname dictionaries derive Spurlin, through Spurling and Sparling, from either an Old English personal name (Spyrling) or a Middle English word for a small fish such as the smelt; the popular 'sparrow' explanation belongs to German Sperling.
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- Federal land patents to Spurlins · History strong
The Bureau of Land Management's General Land Office records list 94 federal land patents to people surnamed Spurlin, issued between 1823 and 1963. Most are for land in Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana before the Civil War. - Fictional characters named Spurlin · Culture strong
Characters surnamed Spurlin in novels, pulp science fiction, television and film, including an explorer in a 1942 Planet Stories tale, a politician in C. J. Cherryh's Regenesis (2009), the heroine of a 1993 romance, and minor characters on British and American screens. - Frances Spurlin (congressional caseworker) · People strong
Frances Spurlin was a constituent services representative for Alabama's 2nd congressional district from 1985 to 2013, working for three successive U.S. representatives. She was honored in the Congressional Record on her retirement.
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- Geographic distribution of the Spurlin surname · The Surname strong
Almost all people named Spurlin live in the United States, especially Texas, Alabama and North Carolina today and Indiana in the 19th century. The fuller spelling Spurling is still found in England (especially East Anglia and London), Australia, Canada and Bermuda. - Greg Spurling (Spurling variant) · People strong
Greg Spurling is a former American college basketball center from Knoxville, Tennessee. The Phoenix Suns drafted him in the fifth round in 1986, and he later signed with the Suns and the Chicago Bulls, but he was waived each time and never played in an NBA game. - Gwen Cottle Spurlin · People strong
Gwendolyn "Gwen" Cottle Spurlin (1937–2022) was a Tifton High School basketball star. She scored 700 points in the 1954–55 season and was inducted into the Tift County Athletic Hall of Fame a week before her death.
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- Harold M. Spurlin · People strong
Harold Morton Spurlin (1905–1992) was a cellulose and polymer chemist at the Hercules Powder Company from at least 1929. He was named on some 44 Hercules patents filed between 1929 and 1969, co-edited the standard reference Cellulose and Cellulose Derivatives (2nd ed., from 1954), and received the Anselme Payen Award in 1964. - Hilary Spurling (Spurling variant) · People strong
Hilary Spurling (born 1940) is an English biographer known for her two-volume life of Henri Matisse and biographies of Ivy Compton-Burnett, Pearl Buck and Anthony Powell. - Howell-Spurlin Cemetery (Shelby, North Carolina) · Places weak
Howell-Spurlin Cemetery is a small 19th-century family burial ground in Shelby, Cleveland County, North Carolina. Find a Grave records 16 memorials, among them John Howell (1744–1828) and five Spurlins who died between 1850 and 1890.
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- J Spurling Ltd v Bradshaw (1956) · History strong
J Spurling Ltd v Bradshaw [1956] EWCA Civ 3 is an English Court of Appeal decision on exclusion clauses, best known for Lord Denning's "red hand rule". The claimant, J. Spurling Ltd, was a London warehousing company; its name uses the related surname Spurling, not Spurlin. - J. T. Spurlin (Baptist pastor) · People strong
Dr. J. T. Spurlin (1908–2000) was a Southern Baptist pastor from Kentucky. He organized the First Baptist Church of Juneau, Alaska, in 1946 and presided over the first annual sessions of the Alaska Baptist Convention. - Jack Spurlin (country singer) · People strong
Jack Spurlin was an American country singer-songwriter who released small-label 45 rpm singles in Virginia around 1969–1970, including the Vietnam-era "Soldier's Prayer / Send Me Back To Viet Nam", and wrote songs for other Hillbilly Heaven artists. - Jack Spurling (Spurling variant) · People strong
Jack Spurling (1870–1933) was an English marine painter known for his paintings of clipper ships and his covers for The Blue Peter magazine. - James Clinton Spurlin (Methodist minister) · People strong
Rev. James Clinton "Clint" Spurlin (1890–1984), born at Ennice, North Carolina, was a Methodist minister in the Holston Conference in southwestern Virginia for 43 years. - James M. Spurlin (Georgia Baptist preacher) · History mixed
Rev. James M. Spurlin (1802–1887) was a Baptist preacher, ordained in Chambers County, Alabama, who served churches in Randolph County, Alabama, and Troup and Fayette counties, Georgia. He is buried at Antioch Baptist Church in Fayette County, Georgia. - James Utley Spurlin (Kentucky Baptist preacher) · History strong
Rev. James Utley Spurlin (1824–1909) was a Baptist preacher in western Kentucky for about 65 years and the first pastor of Sinking Fork ("Brick") Baptist Church in Christian County. In 1907 the Hopkinsville Kentuckian called him the second-oldest Baptist preacher in the state. He died near Sinking Fork on 30 October 1909. His son John H. Spurlin and grandson Lindsay Spurlin were also preachers; a great-grandson, J. T. Spurlin, organized a church in Juneau, Alaska, and another grandson, R. P. Spurlin, was a dentist in Berryville, Arkansas. - Jeremiah Spurling of Colonial Virginia · Genealogy weak
Three generations of men named Jeremiah Spurling lived in colonial Virginia: a Westmoreland County shoemaker and planter who died in 1725 or 1726, his son (c. 1704–c. 1770), a tenant tobacco planter in Truro Parish, Fairfax County, and a grandson (c. 1745 – c. 1810) of Fairfax County. Many southern Spurlin and Spurling lines trace their descent to this family. - Jeremy Spurlin · People strong
Jeremy Spurlin is an American guitarist listed as lead guitarist of the Christian metal band Disciple from 2001 to 2005. - Jimmy Spurlin · People strong
James Kenneth "Jimmy" Spurlin Sr. (1935–2006) was a coach, banker and local official in Tifton, Georgia, who chaired the Tift County Commission and was honored by the Tift County (2016) and ABAC (class of 2022) athletic halls of fame. - Jimmy Spurlin Park (Tifton, Georgia) · Places mixed
Jimmy Spurlin Park is a youth baseball field in Tifton, Georgia, named for James Kenneth "Jimmy" Spurlin Sr. (1935–2006), a Tifton city commissioner, Tift County Commission chairman and longtime youth coach. Tift County lists a Spurlin field in its D. L. Lastinger Recreation Area, and tournament organizers list it as Spurlin Field. - John E. Spurlin (Confederate soldier) · History strong
John E. Spurlin (1841–1861) was a Rutherford County, North Carolina, farmer. He enlisted in the 16th North Carolina Infantry in 1861 and, according to the regimental roster, died of typhoid fever at Warrenton, Virginia, that December; a 1937 county history gives a different date and place. - John Spurlin (1780–1851) · Genealogy weak
John Spurlin was a North Carolina-born pioneer who married Mary Willey in Ashe County in 1810. WikiTree dates him 1780–1851, places his death in Christian County, Illinois, and makes him a son of Zachariah Spurling of Surry and Ashe counties and a grandson of Jeremiah Spurling Jr. of Fairfax County, Virginia. Other records do not fit those dates, and a different John Spurlin (1780–1851) died in Christian County, Kentucky. - John Spurling (Spurling variant) · People strong
John Spurling (born 1936) is a Kenyan-born English playwright, novelist and art critic who won the 2015 Walter Scott Prize for The Ten Thousand Things. - Johnny Spurlin · People strong
Johnny Spurlin is a Tifton, Georgia, lawyer and longtime basketball coach at Tift County High School. He was named head boys' coach in 2005, took the Blue Devils to the 2007 state Final Four, and later returned as an assistant to Tommy Blackshear. - Joshua Spurlin · People strong
Joshua Spurlin is an American wrestler from Galax, Virginia. He won four Virginia high school state titles from 2016 to 2019 and then wrestled for Appalachian State.
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- Kathleen Spurlin (prison chaplain) · People strong
Sister Kathleen Spurlin, BVM (1925–2023), was a Minnesota-born Catholic sister and teacher who became senior chaplain at the South Mississippi Correctional Institution near Leakesville. - Ken Spurlin puzzle boxes · Products & Brands mixed
Ken Spurlin, a woodworker from Nevis, Minnesota, makes signed and numbered wooden puzzle boxes that are sold at regional art fairs and resold on secondary markets.
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- LaTarsha Spurlin · People mixed
LaTarsha Spurlin is an independently published American fiction author whose books include Regular Girl (2019), Female He (2020) and King (2020). - Linda Spurlin · People strong
Linda S. Spurlin is the Alaskan breeder who developed the Alaskan Klee Kai, a small husky-type dog breed, from the 1970s onward. She applied to trademark the name Klee Kai in 1991. - Logan Spurlin · People strong
Logan Spurlin (born 1994) is an American former baseball first baseman and catcher from the Chicago area who played four seasons at Northern Kentucky University and independent professional baseball in 2016.
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- Mark Spurlin (Pike Road mayoral candidate) · People strong
Mark Spurlin, a residential builder, ran for mayor of Pike Road, Alabama, in 2025. He lost to longtime incumbent Gordon Stone by 52 votes in the official canvass, 1,567 to 1,515. - Mary Jane Spurlin · People strong
Mary Jane Spurlin (1883–1970) was a lawyer who became Oregon's first woman judge in 1926 when appointed to the Multnomah County District Court. - Max Spurlin (American football) · People strong
Max Leland Spurlin (1923–2001) was a guard for the University of North Carolina in the 1940s who also played for the 1944 Great Lakes Navy team and was on the 1949 roster of the Charlotte Clippers, a minor-league professional team.
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- Notable Spurlins · People strong
An index of notable people surnamed Spurlin, with related Spurling-surname figures listed separately as variants.
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- Other Spurlin construction firms · Companies mixed
Besides Don Spurlin Construction, several smaller builders carry the Spurlin name: Mark Spurlin Construction Co. in Alabama, whose owner ran for mayor of Pike Road in 2025, Spurlin Builders in Kentucky, Spurlin Construction LLC in Arkansas, Spurlin Masonry in Georgia and the former roofing contractor Estel L. Spurlin, Inc. in Florida. - Owen and Amanda Spurlin Family of Mississippi · Genealogy weak
Owen Spurlin was born enslaved on a Mississippi plantation. He and his wife Amanda raised 14 children and bought farmland near Lexington, Mississippi, in 1899. Their story is recorded in a family history, and descendants have held reunions, including in San Francisco in 2010 and near Chicago in 2012.
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- Paul Merrill Spurlin · People strong
Paul Merrill Spurlin (1902–1994) was an American scholar of French literature who taught at the University of Michigan and wrote on how the French Enlightenment was received in America, including Montesquieu in America (1940) and Rousseau in America (1969). - Paul Spurlin (minister and podcaster) · People mixed
Paul Spurlin is a Church of Christ minister in Marietta, Georgia. He hosts The Paul Spurlin Show and other podcasts produced by Ministry League. - Pearce Spurlin III · People strong
Pearce Spurlin III is an American college football tight end, a four-star Georgia signee whose career was halted by a heart condition in 2024 before he returned with Colorado State in 2026. - People v. Spurlin (1984) · History strong
People v. Spurlin, 156 Cal. App. 3d 119 (1984), is a California appellate decision holding that heat-of-passion provocation must come from the person killed. A defendant provoked by one person cannot claim it for killing someone who did not provoke him. - Places named Spurlin · Places strong
Overview of communities, landforms, streams, crossings, cemeteries and civic sites in the United States that carry the Spurlin (or closely related Spurling) name, with pointers to Spurlin historical markers and federal land records. - Preston Pruitt Spurlin Funeral Home · Companies mixed
Preston Pruitt Spurlin Funeral Home in Danville, Kentucky, traces its origins to 1880. It was renamed Preston Pruitt Spurlin in late 2014 and is owned by Jim and Libby Spurlin, who also own the Spurlin Funeral Home of Lancaster. - Published Spurlin and Spurling family histories · Genealogy mixed
The main published genealogies are Quincy Haggard Spurlin's 'SPURLIN: A Spurlin Family in America' (1987) and Norman Kent Spurling's two-volume 'Spurling family history in Virginia & North Carolina' (1998). Shorter family articles appear in county heritage books, and the largest online trees are on WikiTree and FamilySearch.
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- R. G. Spurling (Spurling variant) · People strong
Richard Green Spurling (1858–1935) was an American minister and a founder of the Christian Union movement in Tennessee, from which the Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) grew. - Ralph Spurlin Jr. (songwriter) · People strong
Ralph Spurlin Jr. was an American lyricist of the 1950s who wrote songs with the Boston songwriter Arthur Korb, including "The Prince of Players" (recorded in 1958 by Tommy Frederick and the Hi-Notes and later by Jimmy Lloyd and John E. Paul) and "The Iron Horse". - Robert E. Spurlin (Kentucky utility regulator) · People strong
Robert E. Spurlin, a lawyer from Richmond, Kentucky, served on the Kentucky Public Service Commission from 1972 to 1976 and again from 2001 to 2004, and directed the state's workers' compensation Special Fund in the 1990s. - Robert Parker Spurlin (Berryville dentist) · People mixed
Dr. Robert Parker Spurlin (1879–1948) was a Kentucky-born dentist who practised in Berryville, Arkansas, from 1903 and served on its town council. His son, Dr. R. P. Spurlin Jr. (1914–1993), was appointed in 1940 as director of the Arkansas State Board of Health's newly budgeted dental-hygiene sub-division. - Roy Glenwood Spurling (Spurling variant) · People strong
Roy Glenwood Spurling (1894–1968) was an American neurosurgeon who described the Spurling test for cervical nerve-root compression and led U.S. Army neurosurgery in World War II. - Ryan Spurling (Spurling variant) · People strong
Ryan Spurling is the elected sheriff of Mason County, Washington, the 41st in the office's history. He ran for the office in 2022 after a 25-year career with the Washington State Patrol and is a candidate for re-election in 2026.
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- Sam Spurlin (organizational designer) · People mixed
Sam Spurlin is an organizational-design consultant and writer. He was the first employee of The Ready, co-hosts the podcast At Work with The Ready, and founded the work-design practice Deliberate Works. - Sir John Spurling (Spurling variant) · People strong
Sir John Spurling (born 1939) is a British businessman who built up the pet insurer Pet Protect and founded PetPartners. He was appointed OBE in 2000 and KCVO in 2012 for charitable services. - Slim Spurling and Light-Life rings (Spurling variant) · Products & Brands mixed
Bill "Slim" Spurling (1938–2007) was an American metalworker and dowser who created copper "Light-Life" rings in 1991. They are the origin of today's "tensor ring" products, a large Spurling-name product niche on Etsy and Amazon. - Sparling (the fish) and the Spurlin name · The Surname strong
'Sparling' (also sperling, spurling) is an old English and Scots word for the European smelt, Osmerus eperlanus. It is one of the two main proposed sources of the Spurling/Spurlin surname. - Sperling: a different surname · The Surname strong
Sperling is a German and Jewish surname meaning 'sparrow'. It is often given as the origin of Spurlin, but English surname dictionaries derive Spurlin from a different source. - Sperling/Spurling DNA surname project · Genealogy mixed
FamilyTreeDNA hosts a volunteer-run Y-DNA surname project, 'Sperling Spurling', for Spurlin, Spurling, Sparlin, Sparling, Sperlin, Sperling, Spirlin and Spirling lines. Its largest group links descendants of Jeremiah Spurling of Virginia with descendants of 'Big John' Spurlin of Lincoln County, North Carolina. - Spurlin (surname) · The Surname strong
Spurlin is an English-origin surname, treated by modern surname dictionaries as a variant of Spurling/Sparling; today it is found almost entirely in the United States, where about 2,600 people bore it in the 2020 Census. - Spurlin & Company Real Estate Group · Companies mixed
Spurlin & Company (Spurlin Real Estate) is a commercial real estate brokerage in Albertville, Alabama, affiliated with Don Spurlin Construction. The company dates it to 1995; from 2011, after his partnership in Henderson and Spurlin Real Estate ended, Don Spurlin concentrated his real-estate business in it. - Spurlin & Spurlin, LLC · Companies weak
Spurlin & Spurlin, LLC is a small law firm in Tifton, Georgia, whose attorneys practice family law, insurance and tort law, and general trial work. LinkedIn gives 2001 as its founding year. - Spurlin artists on streaming platforms · Culture weak
Recording artists named Spurlin on Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming services, from 1950s rockabilly reissues and a 1980s soul single to today's independent releases. - Spurlin business and public pages on Facebook · Culture weak
Public Facebook Pages for businesses and public-facing projects that use the Spurlin name, from sign makers, builders and funeral homes to accountants, dentists, a car-restoration shop, a farm and a musician. - Spurlin businesses and brands · Companies mixed
An overview of companies, products, patents and trademarks bearing the Spurlin name, from a 19th-century Alabama jewelry store and a mid-century Oklahoma farm-equipment dealer to today's builders and funeral homes, concentrated in the US South, especially Alabama, Kentucky, Georgia and North Carolina. - Spurlin candidates in recent elections · People strong
People surnamed Spurlin who appear as candidates in Ballotpedia, local election records and news coverage from 2008 to 2026, including two Albertville, Alabama, races by builder Don Spurlin and local races in California, Indiana and Kentucky. - Spurlin cemeteries · Places weak
A roundup of burial grounds named for the Spurlin family on Find a Grave: eight Spurlin cemeteries in Arkansas, Tennessee, Indiana, Kentucky and North Carolina, plus Spurlington- and Spurling-named cemeteries and the graves of notable Spurlins. - Spurlin centenarians and longevity claims · Genealogy weak
Family trees, grave memorials and old newspapers credit several Spurlins with lifespans of more than 100 years. Census ages often disagree with these claims. This entry sets each claim beside the records found so far and lists modern centenarians covered in the press. - Spurlin Ceramics (tiki mugs) · Companies mixed
Spurlin Ceramics was a small Lynwood, California pottery run by designer Stella Bodey (née Spurlin) from about the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. Working with Oceanic Arts, it made some of the earliest tiki mugs, drink bowls and lamp figures for Polynesian restaurants, and its pieces are now prized collectibles. - Spurlin clergy and ministries · Culture mixed
A roundup of ministers, preachers and religious workers surnamed Spurlin, from nineteenth-century Baptist and Presbyterian pastors to present-day ministries, drawn from church histories, denominational records and local news. - Spurlin coat of arms and heraldry · The Surname mixed
There is no coat of arms for the surname Spurlin, since arms are granted to individuals. Burke's General Armory does record arms of several historical English Spurling, Sperling and Sparling families, which crest vendors reuse. - Spurlin Cobra's Fang mugs · Products & Brands weak
Two snake-wrapped tiki mugs made by Spurlin Ceramics and credited to Stella Bodey: the Cobra's Fang mug of the Islander restaurant in Los Angeles, long known only from its menu, and the smaller OA Cobra Fang sold by Oceanic Arts. - Spurlin collectibles and memorabilia · Products & Brands weak
A guide to collectible objects and products that bear the Spurlin name: Spurlin Dairy milk bottles, Spurlin Sales farm-equipment advertising, Spurlin Ceramics tiki mugs, 1950s Spurlin records, signed art and craft pieces, and modern novelty goods. - Spurlin Dairy (Carlsbad, New Mexico) · Companies weak
Spurlin Dairy was a mid-20th-century family dairy in Carlsbad, New Mexico, run by Elmer Odell and Gladys Spurlin alongside their Black River Village ranch; its glass milk bottles, several described with orange pyroglazed "Spurlin Grade A Dairy" lettering, range from a small creamer to half-gallon jugs and now turn up in collector marketplaces. - Spurlin dental practices · Companies mixed
Two dental practices use the Spurlin name: Spurlin Family Dentistry in Berryville, Arkansas, which in 2017–2019 was the office of dentist Eldon Thompson Jr. (Spurlins practised dentistry in Berryville from 1903), and S. Jill Spurlin, DMD, in Enterprise, Alabama. - Spurlin family groups and reunions online · Genealogy weak
Online places where Spurlin relatives and researchers gather: a family reunion blog and newsletters, surname DNA and genealogy projects, surname message boards and Facebook. - Spurlin Family History in America · History mixed
An overview of Spurlin and Spurling families in America, from colonial Virginia and New England through southern and western migration, Civil War service, and published genealogies. - Spurlin family lines by state · Genealogy weak
A state-by-state guide to the main Spurlin and Spurling family lines in the United States, from colonial Virginia and North Carolina to Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Texas and Indiana, with the sources behind each link. - Spurlin farms and ranches · Companies mixed
A roundup of farm businesses registered or presented publicly under the Spurlin name, in Oregon, Alabama, Missouri and Indiana. - Spurlin Funeral Home (Stanford, Kentucky) · Companies mixed
Spurlin Funeral Home is a family-owned funeral home in Stanford, Kentucky, operating since January 1999 in an 1856 brick building that previously housed the Beazley funeral home. - Spurlin Funeral Home of Lancaster · Companies mixed
Spurlin Funeral Home of Lancaster is a family-owned funeral home in Lancaster, Garrard County, Kentucky, which opened in September 1996. - Spurlin handmade goods and small brands · Products & Brands mixed
A roundup of small present-day businesses selling products under or by the Spurlin name: craft woodworking, ceramics, farm goods and apparel, cited from their own pages and marketplace listings. - Spurlin historical markers · History strong
Nine markers and memorials transcribed in the Historical Marker Database name a Spurlin, from a Georgia church founder of 1842 and an Alabama Masonic officer of 1852 to veterans on Confederate, World War I and Vietnam War memorials. - Spurlin Homestead Farm (Indiana) · Companies weak
Spurlin Homestead Farm is a small family farm business in the Dugger–Linton area of Greene/Sullivan County, Indiana. It sells products online and posts on Facebook and YouTube. - Spurlin in American case law · History strong
A guide to published American appellate decisions with a party named Spurlin, from an 1818 North Carolina dispute over a whiskey still to 21st-century cases on public records, county government and bankruptcy crime. Each summary is drawn from the opinion's own text. - Spurlin in the U.S. Census (2000, 2010, 2020) · The Surname strong
Official U.S. Census Bureau surname files rank Spurlin about 10,000th–11,500th among American surnames, with 2,949 bearers in 2000, 3,195 in 2010 and 2,616 in 2020, most of them non-Hispanic white. - Spurlin Industries · Companies mixed
Spurlin Industries, Inc. was a Georgia maker of acrylic whirlpool bathtubs, fiberglass tubs and showers, incorporated in 1984 and based in Palmetto. It had plants in Georgia and Florida and, according to directory data, Tennessee. The Georgia corporation was dissolved in 2017. - Spurlin Island Chief ("Husband Killer") tiki mug · Products & Brands mixed
The Island Chief, or "Husband Killer", is a standing pointed-head tiki mug that Stella Bodey of Spurlin Ceramics made for the Islander restaurant in Los Angeles by 1960. It is one of the earliest tiki mugs and one of the most collected Spurlin-named objects. - Spurlin Mesa, Colorado · Places strong
Spurlin Mesa is a summit listed by GNIS in Delta County, Colorado, between the towns of Hotchkiss and Crawford. An irrigation ditch across it, the Spurlin Mesa Lateral of the Crawford Clipper Ditch, dates from the 1880s and has been evaluated as eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. - Spurlin Oil Co. · Companies weak
Spurlin Oil Co., Inc. is a petroleum bulk-station business in Talladega, Alabama, incorporated in January 1982. - Spurlin on GitHub · Culture mixed
A snapshot of the Spurlin name on GitHub, the code-hosting platform: dozens of user accounts and repositories, mostly personal and student projects. - Spurlin on Reddit and online forums · Culture weak
Where the Spurlin name comes up in online discussion: Reddit threads about Spurlin athletes, a band director and a dog breeder, long-running genealogy message boards, and a few other platforms that were checked. - Spurlin on Wikidata · Culture strong
The Spurlin items in Wikidata, the free knowledge base: the family-name item, places, cemeteries and notable people. - Spurlin on Wikimedia Commons · Culture strong
Freely licensed images on Wikimedia Commons that relate to the Spurlin name, including portraits of Ashley Spurlin and Mary Jane Spurlin. - Spurlin patents · Products & Brands strong
Inventors surnamed Spurlin appear on US patents from 1902 onward, including Hercules Powder Company chemist Harold M. Spurlin, vibratory-feeder engineer William V. Spurlin, tractor-implement designer William G. Spurlin, and later semiconductor, electronics and bath-fixture inventors. - Spurlin podcasts and podcast hosts · Culture strong
Podcasts hosted or co-hosted by people named Spurlin, covering workplace design, marketing, sermons and Christian encouragement, St. Louis sports, the outdoors, music, interviews and role-playing games. One similarly named show is hosted by a Spurling. - Spurlin records and recordings (collectible vinyl) · Products & Brands strong
A guide to collectible vinyl records by or credited to people named Spurlin, from Tommy Spurlin's 1950s rockabilly 45s to Jack Spurlin's country singles, Tracy Spurlin's 1986 soul 12-inch and LPs with Spurlin sidemen. - Spurlin research resources · Genealogy mixed
A roundup of free online tools for researching Spurlin families: collaborative trees, the Spurlin Y-DNA project, surname forums, digitized county histories and newspapers, federal land patents, cemetery and historical-marker databases, and military and African American records. - Spurlin shops on Etsy · Culture weak
Small handmade-goods shops on Etsy connected with the Spurlin name, among them a Georgia woodturning shop, an Alabama seller of Romanian-made porcelain urns and a Colorado art-print shop. - Spurlin Signs & Awnings · Companies weak
Spurlin Signs & Awnings, Inc. is a sign and awning contractor in Dobson, Surry County, North Carolina, founded in 2001. - Spurlin spelling variants and related surnames · The Surname strong
Spurlin belongs to a group of related spellings (Spurling, Sparling, Sparlin, Sperlin, Spirling) that the Dictionary of American Family Names traces to the same English roots. Sperling and Spurlock look similar but have separate origins. - Spurlin surname merchandise (crests, mugs, name signs) · Products & Brands weak
Commercial "Spurlin family crest" downloads, mugs and name products are novelty items made to order from the surname; the heraldry shown is generic and not evidence of a Spurlin coat of arms. - Spurlin trademarks · Products & Brands strong
US trademark filings by Spurlin-named owners are few and mostly short-lived. Tuscaloosa clothier Charles A. Spurlin holds a registered elephant logo, and bath-fixture maker Spurlin Industries held a faucet design mark from 1995 to 2020. - Spurlin Trucking · Companies weak
Spurlin Trucking is a family trucking business in Wake Forest, North Carolina, with federally registered carriers dating from 1997 and 2012. - Spurlin v. General Motors Corp. · History strong
Spurlin v. General Motors Corp., 528 F.2d 612 (5th Cir. 1976), arose from a 1968 school-bus brake failure in Morgan County, Alabama. The Fifth Circuit reinstated a jury verdict for the plaintiffs, and the case is taught as an example of the standard for judgment notwithstanding the verdict. - Spurlin Vicious Virgin mug and bowl · Products & Brands mixed
The "Vicious Virgin" is a nude female figure that Spurlin Ceramics used on a mug and a three-figure drink bowl for the Islander restaurant in Los Angeles. A prototype of the bowl, designed by Stella Bodey, was the centerpiece of Oceanic Arts' "Holy Grail" display cabinet. - Spurlin whirlpool baths · Products & Brands mixed
Spurlin whirlpool baths were acrylic jetted bathtubs made by Spurlin Industries of Palmetto, Georgia, and sold through plumbing wholesalers under model names such as Count, Countess, Duke, Balmoral, Swan and Crown. - Spurlin Woodworking (Grovetown, Georgia) · Companies weak
Spurlin Woodworking, LLC is a small woodturning business in Grovetown, Georgia. It makes handcrafted wooden and resin pens and sells them through Etsy and social media. - Spurlin-named nonprofits and foundations · Companies strong
IRS-registered nonprofits bearing the Spurlin name are few: a memorial charitable trust in Florida and a Minnesota ministry. Several larger foundations with similar names belong to other surnames. - Spurlin-named professional and creative services · Companies weak
A roundup of Spurlin-named accounting, photography and insurance-agency businesses, as found in directories and on the businesses' public pages. - Spurlin-named trades and service businesses · Companies mixed
A roundup of small Spurlin-named trade businesses, including HVAC, electrical, septic, collision repair, hot-rod restoration, and recycling and demolition firms, as recorded in business directories and state registries. - Spurlin, Texas · Places mixed
Spurlin is a ghost town in northwestern Hamilton County, Texas. It was laid out on the Stephenville North and South Texas Railway in 1908–1909 and named for its promoter, the Hamilton merchant John L. Spurlin. It had a church and a business in 1936 and had disappeared from maps by the late 1980s. - Spurling (surname) · The Surname strong
Spurling is the fuller spelling from which Spurlin derives. Unlike Spurlin, it is well established in England, Australia and especially Bermuda as well as the United States. - Spurling athletes in Britain and Australia (variant spelling) · People strong
Sportsmen and sports figures with the related surname Spurling outside the United States. They include the England rugby international Aubrey Spurling (1856–1945), the Footscray footballers Bill Spurling (1907–1972) and Bob Spurling, the Australian lightweight rower Stephen Spurling and his mother, the Tasmanian rowing administrator Marj Spurling, and the English rugby hooker Scott Spurling. - Spurling photographers of Tasmania (variant spelling) · People strong
Four members of the Spurling family, across three generations, worked as photographers in Tasmania from the mid-19th century until 1941. Stephen Spurling II (1847–1924) ran a leading Launceston studio. His son Stephen Spurling III (1876–1962) pioneered Tasmanian wilderness photography, and Tasmania's Mount Spurling bears the family name. - Spurling place names (related spelling) · Places strong
Several U.S. places carry the closely related name Spurling rather than Spurlin: a populated place in Montana, a stream in Tennessee, and a cove, point and rock around Great Cranberry Island, Maine. Spurlington, Kentucky, is also named for a Spurling family, and Tasmania has a Mount Spurling named for a photographer's 1908 discovery. - Spurling public officials (variant spelling) · People strong
Minor public officials and candidates with the related surname Spurling, including a 19th-century Maine postmaster, a 2004 Democratic National Convention alternate, a North Carolina town councilman and school-board member, and a Georgia county coroner. - Spurlings of Bermuda (variant spelling) · Genealogy strong
In Bermuda the name is spelled Spurling, and Forebears ranks it the island's 202nd most common surname. Bermudian Spurlings have included the banker and parliamentarian Sir Stanley Spurling (1879–1961), his son Sir Dudley Spurling, Speaker of the House of Assembly, and his nephew Arthur Rowe Spurling, a First World War flying ace. - Spurlington Tunnel · Places strong
The Spurlington Tunnel is an abandoned railroad tunnel of about 1,900 feet through Muldraugh Hill near Spurlington, Kentucky. It was dug in the late 1860s and 1870s for the Lebanon–Greensburg line, which the Louisville and Nashville Railroad later operated. - Spurlington Tunnel witch legend · Culture strong
A Kentucky folk legend says that Jesse James's gang killed a local woman, Nancy Bass, while hiding stolen treasure at the Spurlington Tunnel, and that her spirit, remembered as a witch, curses anyone who seeks the gold. Archival research shows Nancy Bass was a real Taylor County woman who probably died before the tunnel was built. - Spurlington, Kentucky · Places mixed
Spurlington is a small rural community in Taylor County, Kentucky, northeast of Campbellsville. It was a railroad station with a post office from 1880 to 1958, and it is named for the Spurling family, whose John Spurling Sr. was its first postmaster. - Spurlins Ferry and Spurlin Cemetery (Garland County, Arkansas) · Places mixed
Garland County, Arkansas, near Hot Springs, has two Spurlin-named sites: a historical river crossing that GNIS records as Spurlins Ferry, and Spurlin Cemetery on Papas Trail, a family burial ground with about 160 Find a Grave memorials whose earliest dated burial is from about 1890. A family tradition links the cemetery's Spurlins to a James Spurlin said to have been killed at Hot Springs in the 1840s. - Spurlins Hollow and Spurlins Creek, Kentucky · Places strong
Besides Spurlington, GNIS lists two Kentucky natural features named in the possessive form 'Spurlins': Spurlins Hollow, a valley in Cumberland County, and Spurlins Creek, a stream in Muhlenberg County recorded by the place-name scholar Robert M. Rennick. - Spurlins in academia and science · People strong
A roundup of scholars, scientists and faculty surnamed Spurlin, including the Enlightenment historian Paul Merrill Spurlin, the Hercules cellulose chemist Harold M. Spurlin and the literary scholar William J. Spurlin. - Spurlins in athletic halls of fame · Culture strong
A roundup of people surnamed Spurlin who have been inducted into college, county and high school athletic halls of fame, with notes on the state coaching halls and Olympic records that list no Spurlin. - Spurlins in baseball records · Culture strong
A roundup of the eleven baseball players surnamed Spurlin in Baseball-Reference's register of minor league, independent and college players, from two 1935 minor league first basemen to recent NCAA players. None reached the major leagues. - Spurlins in broadcasting · Culture strong
Radio and television work under the Spurlin name: a Boston broadcast engineer, a Kentucky call-in radio show named for Spurlin Funeral Home, and sports and gaming podcasts. Searches found no television news anchors or on-air radio hosts surnamed Spurlin. - Spurlins in college athletics · Culture mixed
A roundup of adult college athletes and coaches surnamed Spurlin listed on official college athletics rosters, in sports from basketball and volleyball to track and football, plus college and high school hall-of-fame inductees. - Spurlins in film and television · Culture strong
A roundup of on-screen and behind-the-scenes credits under the Spurlin name, from a 1930s Hollywood property man to present-day actors, producers and crew, mostly drawn from IMDb, plus fictional Spurlin characters found through IMDb's character search. - Spurlins in fishing and golf · Culture mixed
A roundup of Spurlins found in tournament bass fishing and amateur golf records, including co-anglers in FLW and Major League Fishing events and a 1963 U.S. Senior Amateur competitor. - Spurlins in Historic American Newspapers · History strong
The Library of Congress's Chronicling America collection returns thousands of newspaper pages for the Spurlin name, from Louisiana politics in 1886 and an Indiana 'ghost' lawsuit in 1897 to a Texas railroad town named for John L. Spurlin and a runaway locomotive in 1935. - Spurlins in media and journalism · Culture strong
A roundup of journalists, critics, writers, podcasters, broadcast engineers and online creators surnamed Spurlin with public bylines or channels. - Spurlins in music · Culture strong
A roundup of musicians and music credits under the Spurlin name, from 1950s rockabilly and small-label country 45s to a 1980s soul single, jazz sidemen, a Christian metal guitarist, Bill Clinton's high-school band director, a university marching band director, a record-company sales representative and present-day streaming artists. - Spurlins in public service · People strong
A roundup of people surnamed Spurlin (and, separately, Spurling) in government, politics, the military and the courts, from a 19th-century Indiana sheriff to a Kentucky utility commissioner and recent local candidates, with links to the individual articles. - Spurlins in sports · Culture strong
An overview of people surnamed Spurlin in sports: college and minor league baseball, college football, wrestling, softball and basketball coaching, with links to each article and a note of the professional leagues and databases searched. - Spurlins in the American Civil War · History strong
Spurlins served on both sides of the Civil War. They included Confederates from North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee and Union soldiers from New Hampshire, Iowa, Indiana and Tennessee. This roundup collects service-index records, rosters, pension, pardon and soldiers' home records, and county-history accounts. - Spurlins in the Congressional Record · History strong
Federal congressional publications mention the Spurlin name in modern tributes and Senate nomination lists, in private pension acts for two Indiana Civil War veterans (1910 and 1914), and in 19th-century printed lists of voters, pensioners, pardons, claims and land entries. - Spurlins in the World Wars · History strong
Five Army soldiers surnamed Spurlin, from Alabama, Arizona, North Carolina and Texas, appear on the War Department's 1946 lists of World War II dead. Two are buried in American Battle Monuments Commission cemeteries in Italy and the Philippines. - Spurlins of Ashe and Alleghany Counties, North Carolina · Genealogy weak
Spurlins from Fairfax County, Virginia, settled in the Blue Ridge counties of Ashe and Alleghany, North Carolina, in the late 18th century. Descendants served in the 22nd North Carolina Infantry, were merchants and farmers around Sparta and Ennice in the 20th century, and gave their name to three family burial grounds. - Spurlins of Christian County, Kentucky · Genealogy mixed
Spurlin families from North Carolina were in Christian County, in western Kentucky, by about 1800. Later generations included a line of Baptist preachers who served churches around Hopkinsville and in neighbouring Trigg County, and the county has a Spurlin Cemetery north of Hopkinsville. - Spurlins of Cleveland and Rutherford Counties, North Carolina · Genealogy mixed
The Spurlin line of Cleveland and Rutherford counties, North Carolina, descends from Isaac Spurlin Sr. (c. 1770–c. 1854), son of John ("Big John") and Myally Spurlin. It is traced through deeds, censuses, an 1826 North Carolina Supreme Court case, Confederate rosters and family graves around Shelby and Ellenboro. - Spurlins of Coffee County, Alabama · Genealogy mixed
Spurlins from Houston County, Georgia, settled around Elba and New Brockton in Coffee County, Alabama, by the mid-19th century. They took up federal land patents, served in Confederate regiments and appear through a century of the Elba Clipper newspaper. The rockabilly singer Tommy Spurlin was born into the Elba family, and streets in neighbouring Covington County carry the name. - Spurlins of early Georgia · Genealogy mixed
Spurlins were in Georgia from the late 18th century, around Warrenton, Greene County and Macon, and several were children or grandchildren of "Big John" Spurlin of North Carolina. From there branches moved into Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Florida and Texas. - Spurlins of Fentress County, Tennessee · Genealogy mixed
Spurlins were among the early families on the Wolf River in Fentress County, Tennessee, where Daniel Spurlin is said to have started the family's Spurlin Cemetery in 1858. A 1920 county history profiles M. H. Spurlin, a Wilder lawman and justice of the peace. - Spurlins of Hamilton County, Texas · History strong
John L. Spurlin (1853–1935), a Hamilton merchant, banker and railroad promoter and a nephew of John H. Reagan, was a founding director of the Hamilton National Bank in 1890 and gave his name to the railroad town of Spurlin in northwestern Hamilton County. - Spurlins of Hardeman County, Tennessee · Genealogy mixed
Spurlins lived in Hardeman County, in southwest Tennessee, by the 1830s. Eli and George W. Spurlin are buried at Wesley Cemetery, Piney Grove, and George drew a Confederate pension. Another branch moved to Hot Springs, Arkansas, and on to Texas. - Spurlins of Navarro County, Texas · Genealogy mixed
Georgia-born Spurlins were in Navarro County, Texas, around the time of statehood. An 1893 county history records Emma Spurlin as the first wife of Isaac B. Sessions, one of the county's organizers, and the Hamilton merchant John L. Spurlin was born at Chatfield Point in 1853. - Spurlins of New Hampshire · Genealogy mixed
A New England Spurlin family lived in Madbury, Dover, Pittsfield and Epsom, New Hampshire, from the 18th century. Several members served in the Civil War, among them Charles Spurlin of Pittsfield in the 7th New Hampshire Volunteers and Charles F. Spurlin of Dover in the 11th New Hampshire Infantry. - Spurlins of Old Hebron Cemetery, Pike County, Georgia · Genealogy weak
Old Hebron Cemetery near Concord, Pike County, Georgia, holds the family of William Spurlin or Spurling (1769–1835), whom genealogists describe as a son of "Big" John Spurling of North Carolina, together with his son James Spurlin (1802–1887) and later descendants. - Spurlins of Shelby County, Indiana · Genealogy strong
Spurlin families settled in Washington Township, Shelby County, Indiana, in the 1830s. Several of them served in the 33rd Indiana Infantry during the Civil War, and Ithamar Spurlin was elected county sheriff in 1870. - Spurlins on Instagram and X · Culture weak
Public Instagram and X (Twitter) accounts connected to the Spurlin name. They belong to musicians, a chef, an athlete, a minister, a consultant and local businesses. - Spurlins on stage · Culture strong
Theatre, opera and dance performers surnamed Spurlin, from a soprano in Oklahoma City Lyric Theater's first season in 1963 to present-day regional musical theatre and opera. No Broadway credits were found. - Spurlins on TikTok · Culture weak
How the Spurlin name appears on TikTok: a scam-awareness creator account, music by a Spurlin artist offered as a sound, and a widely shared clip of a World War II veteran. - Spurlins on YouTube · Culture weak
An overview of public YouTube channels connected to the Spurlin name. They include music, entertainment, car-restoration, farm and podcast channels, plus many small personal channels. - Spurlock vs. Spurlin · The Surname strong
Spurlock is a separate surname from Spurlin despite the similar look and a shared concentration in the American South and Midwest. It is more than four times as common in the United States. - Stella Bodey (née Spurlin) · People mixed
Stella Bodey (1905–1971), born Stella Spurlin, was a California ceramicist who ran Spurlin Ceramics of Lynwood and, working with Oceanic Arts, made some of the earliest tiki mugs, drink bowls and lamp figures for Polynesian restaurants. - Steve Spurlin (basketball coach) · People strong
Steve Spurlin is an American basketball coach who led the Blinn College men's basketball program in Brenham, Texas, for 11 seasons before resigning in August 2009.
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- Terrence Spurlin · People strong
Terrence Spurlin (born 1998) is an American former college baseball first baseman from Cypress, Texas, who played for Kansas State from 2018 to 2022 and was named Big 12 Player of the Week in 2019. - The Spurlin name outside the United States · Culture strong
Spurlin is an overwhelmingly American surname today, with about 98% of bearers in the United States. The spelling is older than American settlement: English archives record Spurlins in Middlesex and Bristol between 1670 and 1717, and 18th-century leases name a field called 'Spurlins' in Hertfordshire. Outside the U.S. the related form Spurling is far more common. - Tommy Spurlin · People strong
Tommy Spurlin (1928–2005) was an American country and rockabilly singer best known for the 1956 single "Hang Loose (I've Gotta Rock)" with his Southern Boys. - Tracy Spurlin (singer) · People strong
Tracy Spurlin is a soul singer who recorded "If You Could Read My Mind" with producer George Kerr on a 1986 Harbor Light Records 12-inch single, now a rare-groove collectible. - Tyler Spurlin · People strong
Tyler Spurlin (born 1991) is an American former minor league relief pitcher from Rice University who signed with the Milwaukee Brewers as a free agent in 2013 and pitched in their system through 2019, reaching Double-A Biloxi.
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- United States v. Spurlin (2011) · History strong
United States v. Spurlin, 664 F.3d 954 (5th Cir. 2011), is a Fifth Circuit bankruptcy-crimes decision. It held that a general power of attorney can be used to file a bankruptcy petition for someone else, reversed one false-oath conviction for insufficient evidence, and affirmed convictions for concealing estate assets and for bankruptcy fraud.
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- Virgil Spurlin (band director) · People strong
Virgil Spurlin was the band director at Hot Springs High School in Arkansas when Bill Clinton was a student there. Clinton publicly credited him several times as one of the music teachers who shaped him.
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- W. F. Spurlin (Camden, Alabama jeweler) · History strong
William F. Spurlin (c. 1823–1915) was a jeweler in Camden, Alabama, and a Confederate veteran of the 53rd Alabama Partisan Rangers. His 1913 Confederate Veteran account of the last issue of Confederate treasury notes is still discussed by currency historians. - W. H. Spurlin (Georgia pioneer) · Genealogy mixed
W. H. Spurlin was a Confederate veteran born in Shelby, North Carolina, who settled in Pulaski County, Georgia. His descendants spread through Worth County, Sylvester and Valdosta. - W. H. Spurlin (Tipton County, Indiana, preacher) · History mixed
Rev. Wilford H. Spurlin (1833–1919) was an Ohio-born farmer and Separate Baptist preacher who cleared a homestead in Tipton County, Indiana, after 1872. He is profiled in an 1898 county biographical history, and 1915 and 1919 obituaries tie him to the Spurlins of Shelby County, where his brother Ithamar was sheriff. - Wendy Spurlin · People mixed
Wendy Spurlin is a Colorado-based writer, illustrator and editor who founded the small publisher and production company ArmLin House. - William Dexter Spurlin (Presbyterian minister) · History strong
Rev. William Dexter Spurlin (1860–1935), an Alabama-born Southern Presbyterian minister, served churches at Cleveland, Tennessee, Demopolis, Alabama, Monroe, Louisiana, and Laurel, Mississippi. - William J. Spurlin · People strong
William J. Spurlin (born 1954) is an American-born literary scholar, Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Brunel University London, known for work in queer and postcolonial studies. He is a different person from the recording artist William Spurlin and, apparently, from the Boston broadcast engineer Bill Spurlin. - William Spurlin (digital music composer) · People weak
William Spurlin is an independent recording artist on streaming services. He is known for the 2020 album Memories from the Vault, Vol. 1, which opens with "March of the Gladiators", and for a series of unofficial sports "anthem" singles. He is not the same person as the scholar William J. Spurlin. - William V. Spurlin · People strong
William V. Spurlin (1915–2007) was an inventor from Indiana, Pennsylvania, named on about 35 US patent documents for vibratory parts feeders, conveyors, power hammers and weighing equipment, assigned to Syntron, Link-Belt and FMC.