# 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

## 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