Pohl

This article is about the name. For other uses, see Pohl (disambiguation).

Pohl is a German surname of several possible origins.^[1]

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
• 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
• Dieter Pohl (historian) [de] (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)