Johan Lausen Bull

Johan Lausen Bull (14 May 1751 – 29 July 1817) was a Norwegian jurist, politician and land owner.

He was the son of Captain Jørgen Andreas Bull (1703–1764) and Dorothea Catharina Wandal Randulf (1716–1763).

He was the brother of Johan Randulf Bull who served as the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway.

After their parents' death, the brothers were raised with the assistant to their cousin Henrik Helkand Bull (1732–1797), who was magistrate in Lofoten and Vesterålen from 1768 and Moss from 1773.

[1] He took the jurist examination at the University of Copenhagen in 1776, and worked as district stipendiary magistrate (sorenskriver) in Sundmøre from 1779 to 1798.