Pohl

Pohl is a German surname of several possible origins.

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

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

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

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

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, 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
 * 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

 * Robert Otto Pohl (1929), German-American physicist
 * 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

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