John Pullain[1] (1517–1565) was an English churchman, a reformer and poet, Marian exile and Geneva Bible translator.
On 7 January 1553, being then B.D., he was admitted to the rectory of St. Peter's, Cornhill, but was deprived of it on Queen Mary's accession; he then for a time preached secretly in the parish.
In 1557 he was secretly in England under the name of Smith, acted as chaplain to the Duchess of Suffolk, and held services at Colchester as well as in Cornhill.
He had married in Edward VI's reign, but some of the relatives sought to deprive his children of his property on the ground that they were illegitimate.
John Bale assigns to him a Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs, a Tract against the Arians, histories of Judith, Susannah, and Esther, and a translation into English verse of Ecclesiastes, none of which are known to survive.