Howard Winston "Bud" Hulan (born 1944) is an academic, researcher and former politician in Newfoundland. He represented St. George's in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1993 to 1996. The son of Albert Hulan and Annie Shears, he was born in Jeffrey's and was educated there, at McGill University where he studied agriculture, nutrition and biochemistry, at the University of Maine where he earned a PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry and at Carleton University where he pursued post-graduate studies. Hulan worked as a research scientist for Agriculture Canada in Ottawa and then transferred to the Kentville research station, where he was principal scientist. In 1989, he became coordinator for the food science program at Memorial University. Hulan was head of a provincial task force on agricul