Pole

Pole or poles may refer to:

People

 * Poles (people), another term for Polish people, from the country of Poland
 * Pole (surname), including a list of people with the name
 * Pole (musician) (Stefan Betke, born 1967), German electronic music artist
 * Spot Poles (Spottswood Poles, 1887–1962), American baseball player
 * Pole Atanraoi-Reim (fl. from 1992), a Kiribati lawyer
 * Pole baronets, three titles in the UK

Astronomy and geography

 * Poles of astronomical bodies
 * Celestial pole, two points where the axis of rotation intersects the celestial sphere
 * Orbital pole, two points at the end of the orbital normal
 * North magnetic pole of Earth
 * South magnetic pole of Earth
 * Geographical pole, two points on Earth where its axis of rotation intersects its surface
 * North Pole
 * South Pole

Arts and entertainment

 * Pole (album), by Pole, 2003
 * Pole (Stockhausen), a 1970 composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen
 * Pole, a character in the game Yie Ar Kung-Fu
 * Jill Pole, a character in C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia series

Places

 * Pole, Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland
 * Pole, Botswana
 * Poles, former name of Hanbury Manor, Ware, England
 * Poles, a place in Highland council area, Scotland
 * Poles, former name of Hanbury Manor, Ware, England

Science and technology

 * Pole, or terminal (electronics)
 * Pole, in contact terminology of a switch
 * Pole (unit of length), or perch or rod, a unit of length of various historical definitions
 * Pole, either end of a magnet
 * Pole (complex analysis), a certain type of mathematical singularity
 * Pole, an element of perspective (geometry)
 * Pole and polar, in geometry
 * Prospective Outlook on Long-term Energy Systems (POLES), a world simulation model for the energy sector
 * POLE (gene), in humans

Objects

 * pole, a kind of stick or rod (disambiguation)
 * Chinese pole, a vertical pole used for acrobatics