Pohl is a German surname of several possible origins.Pohl Name Meaning, ancestry.com citing Dictionary of American Family Names, 2013, Oxford University Press
Notable people with the surname include:
16th−19th centuries David Pohl (or Pohle; 1624–1695), German composer of the Baroque era Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl (1782–1834), Austrian botanist Johann Ehrenfried Pohl (1746–1800), German botanist and physician
19th century Arts and entertainment Anton Carl Ferdinand Pohl (1819–1887), German-Austrian music historian, archivist, and composer Richard Pohl (1826–1896), German composer and music author Franz Pohl (1864–1920), outsider artist Joseph Pohl (1864–1939), German botanical artist Adolph Joseph Pohl (1872–1930), Austrian artist and academic sculptor Klaus Pohl (1883–1958), Austrian film actor Max Pohl (1885–1935), Austrian stage and film actor Hermine "Hertha" Pohl (1889–1954), German writer Frederick J. Pohl (1889–1991), American playwright, literary critic, editor, and author
Science Julius Pohl (1861–1942), Austrian-German pharmacologist Esther Pohl Lovejoy (1869–1967), American physician and public health pioneer Robert Wichard Pohl (1884–1976), German physicist
Sports, military, and other Caroline Pohl (1851–1908), brothel proprietor and local identity of the Little Lon district in Melbourne, Australia Hugo von Pohl (1855–1916), German admiral Oswald Pohl (1892–1951), German SS officer executed for war crimes Maximilian Ritter von Pohl (1893–1951), German army and air force (Luftwaffe) officer Erich Pohl (1894–1948), German international footballer
20th century
Arts and entertainment Anna Neethling-Pohl (1906–1992), South African actress, performer and film producer Louis Pohl (1915–1999), American artist Frederik Pohl (1919–2013), American science fiction writer Witta Pohl (1937–2011), German actress
Science Herbert A. Pohl (Herbert Ackland, 1916–1986), discoverer of dielectrophoretic cell separation technology Erika Pohl-Ströher (1919–2016), German business executive, heiress, and collector of minerals William Francis Pohl (1937–1988), American mathematician Robert Otto Pohl (1929–2024), German-American physicist
Sportspeople Herbert Pohl (1916–2010), German international footballer Leonhard Pohl (1929–2014), German athlete Ernest Pohl (1932–1995), Polish football (soccer) player
Other Hermann Pohl (fl. 1910–1930), member of the Thule Society and the founder of the Germanenorden, ariosophic lodge in c. 1910–1930 Reynaldo Galindo Pohl (1918–2012), Salvadoran lawyer and diplomat Karl Otto Pohl (1929–2015), German economist and Bundesbank head Gerhard Pohl (1937–2012), German politician Emmanuel Clive Pohl (An Australian businessman (investment manager) and philanthropist)
Living people Jürgen Pohl (born 1964), German politician Ines Pohl (b. 1967), German journalist James L. Pohl (fl. 1978–), American lawyer and officer in the United States Army Emmanuel Clive Pohl, (born 1953), Businessman and Philanthropist
Arts and entertainment Kalle Pohl (1951), German comedian and actor Emily Pohl-Weary (1973), Canadian novelist, poet and university professor Lucie Pohl (1983), German-American actress and stand-up comedian Martin Pohl (1986), Czech rapper professionally known as Řezník Avery Kristen Pohl (2001), American actress and ballerina, best known for her portrayal of Esme Prince on the American soap opera General Hospital Markus Pohl (fl. 2005–), German musician and member of the German power metal band Mystic Prophecy
Historians Manfred Pohl (1944), German business historian Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (1946), German politician Walter Pohl (1953), Austrian historian and author (1964), German historian
Scientists and engineers Dieter Pohl (physicist) (1938), German/Swiss physicist Peter Pohl (1940), Swedish writer and mathematician Heinz-Dieter Pohl (1942), Austrian linguist Klaus Pohl (computer scientist) (1960), German professor of software systems engineering Jason Pohl (1981), chopper designer
Sportspeople Ball sports Danny Joe Pohl (1955), American professional golfer Carsten Pohl (1965), German professional basketball coach Stephanie Pohl (1978), German beach volleyball player Shannon Pohl (1980), American badminton player Martin Pohl (1981), German former footballer Jannik Pohl (1996), Danish football forward
Ice hockey John Pohl (1979), American professional ice hockey player Kristin Elizabeth "Krissy" Wendell-Pohl (1981), American women's ice hockey player Petr Pohl (1986), Czech professional ice hockey player Patrick Pohl (1990), German professional ice hockey forward
Swimmers Marlies Pohl (1955), German former swimmer Stefan Pohl (1978), German former swimmer Nathalie Pohl (1994), German swimmer
Other types of sport Günther Pohl (1939), German long-distance and ultramarathon runner Klaus-Jürgen Pohl (1941), German former wrestler Hans-Peter Pohl (1965), German former winter sports athlete and Olympic skier in the Nordic combined discipline Stephanie Gaumnitz (née Pohl; 1987), German retired racing cyclist Michael Pohl (1989), German athlete
Other uses Ernest Pohl Stadium, also called Górnik Zabrze Stadium, a multi-purpose stadium in Zabrze, Poland, named for Ernest Pohl
See also Pöhl Pohl commutator Pohlman von Pohl Pohle (disambiguation) Pole (disambiguation) Poll (disambiguation)
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