# Pohl

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This article is about the name. For other uses, see [Pohl (disambiguation)](/source/Pohl_(disambiguation)).

**Pohl** is a [German](/source/German_language) surname of several possible origins.[1]

Notable people with the surname include:

## 16th−19th centuries

- [David Pohl](/source/David_Pohl) (or Pohle; 1624–1695), German composer of the Baroque era
- [Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl](/source/Johann_Baptist_Emanuel_Pohl) (1782–1834), Austrian botanist
- [Johann Ehrenfried Pohl](/source/Johann_Ehrenfried_Pohl) (1746–1800), German botanist and physician

## 19th century

### Arts and entertainment

- [Anton Carl Ferdinand Pohl](/source/Carl_Ferdinand_Pohl) (1819–1887), German-Austrian music historian, archivist, and composer
- [Richard Pohl](/source/Richard_Pohl) (1826–1896), German composer and music author
- [Franz Pohl](/source/Franz_Pohl) (1864–1920), outsider artist
- [Joseph Pohl](/source/Joseph_Pohl) (1864–1939), German botanical artist
- [Adolph Joseph Pohl](/source/Adolf_Pohl) (1872–1930), Austrian artist and academic sculptor
- [Klaus Pohl](/source/Klaus_Pohl_(actor)) (1883–1958), Austrian film actor
- [Max Pohl](/source/Max_Pohl) (1885–1935), Austrian stage and film actor
- [Hermine "Hertha" Pohl](/source/Hertha_Pohl) (1889–1954), German writer
- [Frederick J. Pohl](/source/Frederick_J._Pohl) (1889–1991), American playwright, literary critic, editor, and author

### Science

- [Julius Pohl](/source/Julius_Pohl) (1861–1942), Austrian-German pharmacologist
- [Esther Pohl Lovejoy](/source/Esther_Pohl_Lovejoy) (1869–1967), American physician and public health pioneer
- [Robert Wichard Pohl](/source/Robert_Wichard_Pohl) (1884–1976), German physicist

### Sports, military, and other

- [Caroline Pohl](/source/Caroline_Pohl) (1851–1908), brothel proprietor and local identity of the Little Lon district in Melbourne, Australia
- [Hugo von Pohl](/source/Hugo_von_Pohl) (1855–1916), German admiral
- [Oswald Pohl](/source/Oswald_Pohl) (1892–1951), German SS officer executed for war crimes
- [Maximilian Ritter von Pohl](/source/Maximilian_Ritter_von_Pohl) (1893–1951), German army and air force (*Luftwaffe*) officer
- [Erich Pohl](/source/Erich_Pohl) (1894–1948), German international footballer

## 20th century

### Arts and entertainment

- [Anna Neethling-Pohl](/source/Anna_Neethling-Pohl) (1906–1992), South African actress, performer and film producer
- [Louis Pohl](/source/Louis_Pohl) (1915–1999), American artist
- [Frederik Pohl](/source/Frederik_Pohl) (1919–2013), American science fiction writer
- [Witta Pohl](/source/Witta_Pohl) (1937–2011), German actress

### Science

- [Herbert A. Pohl](/source/Herbert_A._Pohl) (Herbert Ackland, 1916–1986), discoverer of dielectrophoretic cell separation technology
- [Erika Pohl-Ströher](/source/Erika_Pohl-Str%C3%B6her) (1919–2016), German business executive, heiress, and collector of minerals
- [William Francis Pohl](/source/William_Francis_Pohl) (1937–1988), American mathematician
- [Robert Otto Pohl](/source/Robert_Otto_Pohl) (1929–2024), German-American physicist

### Sportspeople

- [Herbert Pohl](/source/Herbert_Pohl) (1916–2010), German international footballer
- [Leonhard Pohl](/source/Leonhard_Pohl) (1929–2014), German athlete
- [Ernest Pohl](/source/Ernest_Pohl) (1932–1995), Polish football (soccer) player

### Other

- [Hermann Pohl](/source/Hermann_Pohl) (*[fl.](/source/Floruit)* 1910–1930), member of the [Thule Society](/source/Thule_Society) and the founder of the [Germanenorden](/source/Germanenorden), [ariosophic](/source/Ariosophy) lodge in c. 1910–1930
- [Reynaldo Galindo Pohl](/source/Reynaldo_Galindo_Pohl) (1918–2012), Salvadoran lawyer and diplomat
- [Karl Otto Pohl](/source/Karl_Otto_Pohl) (1929–2015), German economist and Bundesbank head
- [Gerhard Pohl](/source/Gerhard_Pohl) (1937–2012), German politician
- [Emmanuel Clive Pohl](/source/Emmanuel_Clive_Pohl) (An Australian businessman (investment manager) and philanthropist)

## Living people

- [Jürgen Pohl](/source/J%C3%BCrgen_Pohl) (born 1964), German politician
- [Ines Pohl](/source/Ines_Pohl) (b. 1967), German journalist
- [James L. Pohl](/source/James_L._Pohl) (*[fl.](/source/Floruit)* 1978–), American lawyer and officer in the United States Army
- [Emmanuel Clive Pohl](/source/Emmanuel_Clive_Pohl), (born 1953), Businessman and Philanthropist

### Arts and entertainment

- [Kalle Pohl](/source/Kalle_Pohl) (1951), German comedian and actor
- [Emily Pohl-Weary](/source/Emily_Pohl-Weary) (1973), Canadian novelist, poet and university professor
- [Lucie Pohl](/source/Lucie_Pohl) (1983), German-American actress and stand-up comedian
- Martin Pohl (1986), Czech rapper professionally known as [Řezník](/source/%C5%98ezn%C3%ADk_(rapper))
- Avery Kristen Pohl (2001), American actress and ballerina, best known for her portrayal of Esme Prince on the American soap opera *[General Hospital](/source/General_Hospital)*
- Markus Pohl (*[fl.](/source/Floruit)* 2005–), German musician and member of the German power metal band [Mystic Prophecy](/source/Mystic_Prophecy)

### Historians

- [Manfred Pohl](/source/Manfred_Pohl) (1944), German business historian
- [Sabine Bergmann-Pohl](/source/Sabine_Bergmann-Pohl) (1946), German politician
- [Walter Pohl](/source/Walter_Pohl) (1953), Austrian historian and author
- [Dieter Pohl (historian)](/source/Dieter_Pohl_(historian)) (1964), German historian

### Scientists and engineers

- [Dieter Pohl (physicist)](/source/Dieter_Pohl_(physicist)) (1938), German/Swiss physicist
- [Peter Pohl](/source/Peter_Pohl) (1940), Swedish writer and mathematician
- [Heinz-Dieter Pohl](/source/Heinz-Dieter_Pohl) (1942), Austrian linguist
- [Klaus Pohl (computer scientist)](/source/Klaus_Pohl_(computer_scientist)) (1960), German professor of software systems engineering
- [Jason Pohl](/source/Jason_Pohl) (1981), chopper designer

### Sportspeople

#### Ball sports

- [Danny Joe Pohl](/source/Dan_Pohl) (1955), American professional golfer
- [Carsten Pohl](/source/Carsten_Pohl) (1965), German professional basketball coach
- [Stephanie Pohl](/source/Stephanie_Pohl_(beach_volleyball)) (1978), German beach volleyball player
- [Shannon Pohl](/source/Shannon_Pohl) (1980), American badminton player
- [Martin Pohl](/source/Martin_Pohl_(footballer)) (1981), German former footballer
- [Jannik Pohl](/source/Jannik_Pohl) (1996), Danish football forward

#### Ice hockey

- [John Pohl](/source/John_Pohl) (1979), American professional ice hockey player
- [Kristin Elizabeth "Krissy" Wendell-Pohl](/source/Krissy_Wendell-Pohl) (1981), American women's ice hockey player
- [Petr Pohl](/source/Petr_Pohl) (1986), Czech professional ice hockey player
- [Patrick Pohl](/source/Patrick_Pohl) (1990), German professional ice hockey forward

#### Swimmers

- [Marlies Pohl](/source/Marlies_Pohl) (1955), German former swimmer
- [Stefan Pohl](/source/Stefan_Pohl) (1978), German former swimmer
- [Nathalie Pohl](/source/Nathalie_Pohl) (1994), German swimmer

#### Other types of sport

- [Günther Pohl](/source/G%C3%BCnther_Pohl) (1939), German long-distance and ultramarathon runner
- [Klaus-Jürgen Pohl](/source/Klaus_Pohl_(wrestler)) (1941), German former wrestler
- [Hans-Peter Pohl](/source/Hans-Peter_Pohl) (1965), German former winter sports athlete and Olympic skier in the Nordic combined discipline
- [Stephanie Gaumnitz](/source/Stephanie_Gaumnitz) (née Pohl; 1987), German retired racing cyclist
- [Michael Pohl](/source/Michael_Pohl) (1989), German athlete

## Other uses

- [Ernest Pohl Stadium](/source/Ernest_Pohl_Stadium), also called Górnik Zabrze Stadium, a multi-purpose stadium in [Zabrze](/source/Zabrze), Poland, named for Ernest Pohl

## See also

- [Pöhl](/source/P%C3%B6hl)
- [Pohl commutator](/source/Pohl_commutator)
- [Pohlman](/source/Pohlman)
- [von Pohl](/source/Von_Pohl)
- [Pohle (disambiguation)](/source/Pohle_(disambiguation))
- [Pole (disambiguation)](/source/Pole_(disambiguation))
- [Poll (disambiguation)](/source/Poll_(disambiguation))

## References

1. [Pohl Name Meaning](https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=pohl), [ancestry.com](/source/Ancestry.com) citing *Dictionary of American Family Names*, 2013, Oxford University Press

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