Fictional characters named Spurlin · Culturestrong 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.
Hilary Spurling (Spurling variant) · Peoplestrong 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.
John Spurling (Spurling variant) · Peoplestrong 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.
William J. Spurlin · Peoplestrong 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.