Koehl

Koehl, also transliterated Köhl, is a German surname.

According to one etymology, in the southern Germanosphere, it constitutes an Upper German umlaut variant of the Standard German epithetic surname Kuehl. Thus derived from a byname of the word kuehl, meaning "cool"; "cold".

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According to another etymology, in the northern Germanosphere, it constitutes a Lower German umlaut variant of the Standard German surname Kohl. Thus derived from the word kohl, meaning cabbage, presumably an agricultural occupational name.

People

• Albert Koehl (born 1959), Canadian lawyer and writer
• Albert Köhl (1879–1954), German-Swedish chef de cuisine
• Dan Koehl (born 1959), French-Swedish elephant trainer
• Ditmar Koel (1500–1563), German politician
• Émile Koehl (1921–2013), French politician
• Georg Köhl (1910–1944), German football player
• Hermann Köhl (1888–1938), German aviator
• Laurent Koehl (born 1971), French tenor
• M. A. R. Koehl (born 1948), American marine biologist and Professor at University of California, Berkeley
• Matt Koehl (1935–2014), leader of the American Nazi Party
• Keith Koehl, American Catholic prelate
• Robert B. Koehl, American archaeologist
• Robert Lewis Koehl (1922–2015), U.S. Army Intelligence surveyor, and Professor Emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Wade Koehl (born 1984), American football player

Other

• Koehl Lab, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley

See also

• All pages with titles containing Koehl
• Kuehl
• Kohl

References

Surname list

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