Pohl
Pohl is a German surname of several possible origins.
Notable people with the surname include:
16th−19th centuries
- David Pohl, German composer of the Baroque era
- Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl, Austrian botanist
- Johann Ehrenfried Pohl, German botanist and physician
19th century
Arts and entertainment
- Anton Carl Ferdinand Pohl, German-Austrian music historian, archivist, and composer
- Richard Pohl, German composer and music author
- Franz Pohl, outsider artist
- Joseph Pohl, German botanical artist
- Adolph Joseph Pohl, Austrian artist and academic sculptor
- Klaus Pohl, Austrian film actor
- Max Pohl, Austrian stage and film actor
- Hermine "Hertha" Pohl, German writer
- Frederick J. Pohl, American playwright, literary critic, editor, and author
Science
- Julius Pohl, Austrian-German pharmacologist
- Esther Pohl Lovejoy, American physician and public health pioneer
- Robert Wichard Pohl, German physicist
Sports, military, and other
- Caroline Pohl, brothel proprietor and local identity of the Little Lon district in Melbourne, Australia
- Hugo von Pohl, German admiral
- Oswald Pohl, German SS officer executed for war crimes
- Maximilian Ritter von Pohl, German army and air force officer
- Erich Pohl, German international footballer
20th century
Arts and entertainment
- Anna Neethling-Pohl, South African actress, performer and film producer
- Louis Pohl, American artist
- Frederik Pohl, American science fiction writer
- Witta Pohl, German actress
Science
- Herbert A. Pohl, discoverer of dielectrophoretic cell separation technology
- Erika Pohl-Ströher, German business executive, heiress, and collector of minerals
- William Francis Pohl, American mathematician
- Robert Otto Pohl, German-American physicist
Sportspeople
- Herbert Pohl, German international footballer
- Leonhard Pohl, German athlete
- Ernest Pohl, Polish football player
Other
- Hermann Pohl, member of the Thule Society and the founder of the Germanenorden, ariosophic lodge in c. 1910–1930
- Reynaldo Galindo Pohl, Salvadoran lawyer and diplomat
- Karl Otto Pohl, German economist and Bundesbank head
- Gerhard Pohl, German politician
- Emmanuel Clive Pohl
Living people
- Jürgen Pohl, German politician
- Ines Pohl, German journalist
- James L. Pohl, American lawyer and officer in the United States Army
- Emmanuel Clive Pohl,, Businessman and Philanthropist
Arts and entertainment
- Kalle Pohl, German comedian and actor
- Emily Pohl-Weary, Canadian novelist, poet and university professor
- Lucie Pohl, German-American actress and stand-up comedian
- Martin Pohl, Czech rapper professionally known as Řezník
- Avery Kristen Pohl, American actress and ballerina, best known for her portrayal of Esme Prince on the American soap opera General Hospital
- Markus Pohl, German musician and member of the German power metal band Mystic Prophecy
Historians
- Manfred Pohl, German business historian
- Sabine Bergmann-Pohl, German politician
- Walter Pohl, Austrian historian and author
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Scientists and engineers
- Dieter Pohl (physicist), German/Swiss physicist
- Peter Pohl, Swedish writer and mathematician
- Heinz-Dieter Pohl, Austrian linguist
- Klaus Pohl (computer scientist), German professor of software systems engineering
- Jason Pohl, chopper designer
Sportspeople
Ball sports
- Danny Joe Pohl, American professional golfer
- Carsten Pohl, German professional basketball coach
- Stephanie Pohl, German beach volleyball player
- Shannon Pohl, American badminton player
- Martin Pohl, German former footballer
- Jannik Pohl, Danish football forward
Ice hockey
- John Pohl, American professional ice hockey player
- Kristin Elizabeth "Krissy" Wendell-Pohl, American women's ice hockey player
- Petr Pohl, Czech professional ice hockey player
- Patrick Pohl, German professional ice hockey forward
Swimmers
- Marlies Pohl, German former swimmer
- Stefan Pohl, German former swimmer
- Nathalie Pohl, German swimmer
Other types of sport
- Günther Pohl, German long-distance and ultramarathon runner
- Klaus-Jürgen Pohl, German former wrestler
- Hans-Peter Pohl, German former winter sports athlete and Olympic skier in the Nordic combined discipline
- Stephanie Gaumnitz, German retired racing cyclist
- Michael Pohl, German athlete
Other uses
- Ernest Pohl Stadium, also called Górnik Zabrze Stadium, a multi-purpose stadium in Zabrze, Poland, named for Ernest Pohl