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
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
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