August Adrian Pulle (Arnhem, January 10, 1878 - Utrecht, February 28, 1955)[1] was a Dutch professor and botanist.

Pulle attended high school in Arnhem and studied pharmacy at the Utrecht University, in 1899 he took his bachelor's degree.

He attended lectures of the plant physiologist F. A. F. C. Went and decided to continue his studies in zoology and botany.

On May 18, 1914, Pulle was appointed a professor of botany and plant geography at the University of Utrecht and director of the Botanical Museum and Herbarium there, he focused his research on the identification and description of the plants in Suriname and the former Dutch East Indies.

Pulle was honorary president of the first South American Botanical Congress in Rio de Janeiro in 1938 and rector from 1929-1930.