Pohl is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Augustinus Pohl-Dungen
Carsten Pohl (born 1965), German professional basketball coach
Ernest Pohl (1932–1995), Polish football (soccer) player
Ernest Pohl Stadium, also called Górnik Zabrze Stadium, a multi-purpose stadium in Zabrze, Poland, named for Ernest Pohl
Franz Pohl (1864–1920), artist
Frederik Pohl (1919–2013), American science fiction writer
Frederick J. Pohl (1889–1991), American playwright, literary critic, editor, and author
Gerhard Pohl (1937-2012), German politician
Hans-Peter Pohl (born 1965), German former winter sports athlete and Olympic skier in the Nordic combined discipline
Hermann Pohl, the founder of the Germanenorden, ariosophic lodge organisation in Germany c. 1910 – 1930
Hugo von Pohl (1855–1916), German admiral
Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl (1782–1834), Austrian botanist
Johann Ehrenfried Pohl (1746–1800), German botanist and physician
John Pohl (born 1979), American professional ice hockey player
Kalle Pohl (born 1951), German comedian and actor
Karl Otto Pohl (1929-2015), German economist and Bundesbank head
Leonhard Pohl (born 1929), German athlete
Louis Pohl (1915–1999), American artist
Manfred Pohl (born 1944), German business historian
Markus Pohl, German musician and member of the German power metal band Mystic Prophecy
Maximilian Ritter von Pohl (1893–1951), German army and air force (Luftwaffe) officer
Oswald Pohl (1892–1951), German SS officer
Peter Pohl (born 1940), Swedish writer and mathematician
Richard Pohl (1826–1896), German composer and music author
Robert Pohl (1884–1976), German physicist
Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (born 1946), German politician
Shannon Pohl (b. ?), American badminton player
Stephanie Pohl (born 1978), German beach volleyball player
Tomasz Pohl (born 1968), Polish poet
Walter Pohl (born 1953), Austrian historian and author
William Francis Pohl (1937–1988), American mathematician
Witta Pohl (1937–2011), German actress