Pol or POL may refer to:

Places

Pol State Vijaynagar State, known as Pol State before 1934 and also called Ghodadar for a short time, was a princely state under the Mahi Kantha Agency, Bombay Presidency in NE Gujarat during the British Raj. The capital of the state was in Vijaynagar talu ...

, a former princely state in Gujarat, western India; originally Vijaynagar State after its first capital * Pol, Iran, a city in Khamir County, Hormozgan province, Iran * Pol, Lugo, a municipality in Spain *

River Pol The River Pol, also known as the Polperro River is a small river in southeastern Cornwall. The river rises near the village of Pelynt, and then flows through a steep valley into the hamlet of Crumplehorn before reaching Polperro Polperro ( ...

, a small river in Cornwall, England * POL, ISO-3166-1 alpha-3 code for the country of

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

Codes

* POL, International Olympic Committee country code for Poland - see

List of IOC country codes The International Olympic Committee (IOC) uses three-letter abbreviation country codes to refer to each group of athletes that participate in the Olympic Games. Each geocode usually identifies a National Olympic Committee (NOC), but there are ...

* pol, ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3 language codes for the

Polish language Polish (Polish: ''język polski'', , ''polszczyzna'' or simply ''polski'', ) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group written in the Latin script. It is spoken primarily in Poland and serves as the native language of the Poles. In a ...

Transport

* POL, IATA airport code for

Pemba Airport (Mozambique) Pemba Airport is a small international airport in Pemba, Mozambique Mozambique (), officially the Republic of Mozambique ( pt, Moçambique or , ; ny, Mozambiki; sw, Msumbiji; ts, Muzambhiki), is a country located in southeastern Afri ...

* POL, National Rail station code for

Polsloe Bridge railway station Polsloe Bridge railway station is a suburban railway station in Exeter, Devon, England. The station serves the Polsloe, Mount Pleasant, Hamlin and Whipton areas of the city. History The station was opened in 1907 to serve the eastern suburb ...

, Devon, England * POL, an abbreviation for port of loading

People

Given name

Pól Pól is a masculine given name in both the Irish and Faroese languages. Persons with the name *Pól Brennan, (born 1956), Irish, musician. *Pól Callaghan, Northern Irish, politician. * Pól Ó Foighil, (1928–2005), Irish, politician and activis ...

, an Irish and Faroese given name, and a list of people so named * Pol (given name), usually a form of Paul or Polydore, with a list of people so named **

Pol Pot Pol Pot; (born Saloth Sâr;; 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998) was a Cambodian revolutionary, dictator, and politician who ruled Cambodia as Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea between 1976 and 1979. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist a ...

(1925–1998), Cambodian revolutionary and Communist dictator

Surname

* Agusti Pol (born 1977), Andorran footballer * Alejandro Pol Hurtado (born 1990), Venezuelan football midfielder *

Alexander Pol Alexander Nikolayevich Pol (russian: Александр Николаевич Поль; 20 August 1832 – 26 July 1890) was a Russian archaeologist, geologist, ethnographer and businessman of Baltic German descent. He is most well-known for discov ...

(1832–1890), Ukrainian archaeologist and geologist *

Alice Pol Alice Pol (born 3 December 1982) is a French French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, ...

(born 1982), French actress *

Antoine Pol Antoine Pol (23 August 1888 in Douai – 21 June 1971 in Seine-Port) was a French poet. Biography As an artillery captain, he fought in the First World War, and later worked at the Houve mines in Strasbourg in 1919. In 1945, he became pres ...

(1888–1971), French poet *

Ben Pol Benard Michael Paul Mnyang'anga better known by his stage name Ben Pol, is a Tanzanian singer and songwriter from Dar es salaam, Tanzania. Music career His previous release “Ningefanyaje”, featured Kenyan artist Avril and ranked #1 on Sound ...

(born 1989), Tanzanian singer and songwriter *

David Pol David Pol (born August 31, 1973) is a former Canadian football offensive tackle who played one season with the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League. He was drafted by the BC Lions in the second round of the 1999 CFL Draft. Pol play ...

(born 1973), Canadian football player *

Ernest Pohl Ernest Pohl (3 November 1932 – 12 September 1995), a.k.a. Ernst Pol, was a Polish football player. He was born in Ruda (now Ruda Śląska), Poland and died in Hausach, Germany. Career Pohl scored 39 goals in 46 international matches for Pola ...

, also known as Ernst Pol (1932–1995), Polish footballer * Ferran Pol (born 1983), Andorran footballer *

Francisco Pol Hurtado Francisco Pol Hurtado (born September 17, 1987, in Caracas) is a Venezuelan professional footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for Venezuelan club Mineros de Guayana Asociación Civil Club Deportivo Mineros de Guayana, known as Miner ...

(born 1990), Venezuelan football midfielder *

Miquel Martí i Pol Miquel Martí i Pol (; 19 March 1929 – 11 November 2003) was one of the most popular and widely-read Catalan poets of the twentieth century, publishing more than 1,500 poems. Biography At the age of 14, Martí i Pol started work in the offic ...

(1929–2003), Catalan poet * Nicolas Pol (born 1977), French artist *

Nicolaus Pol Nicolaus Pol (c. 1467 – 1532) was a Renaissance-era physician. He entered the service of Sigismund of Austria at Innsbruck in 1487, and continued to serve Sigismund's successors, emperors Maximilian and Charles until his death in 1532, at an ...

(c.1467–1532), Austrian physician and book collector * Sandra de Pol (born 1975), Swiss footballer *

Santosh Pol Santosh Pol (born November 4, 1974) is an Indian quack doctor who confessed to killing six people from 2003 to 2016 in the town of Dhom, Maharashtra, allegedly by injecting them with succinylcholine, a neuro-muscular paralytic drug. He was dubb ...

(born 1974), Indian serial killer * Sebastián Pol (born 1988), Argentine footballer *

Talitha Pol Talitha Dina Getty (; 18 October 1940 – 11 July 1971) was a Dutch actress, socialite, and model who was regarded as a style icon of the late 1960s. She lived much of her adult life in Britain and, in her final years, was closely associated w ...

(1940–1971), Dutch actress and model, wife of John Paul Getty * Victor de Pol (1865–1925), Italian-born Argentine sculptor *

Wincenty Pol Wincenty Pol (20 April 1807 – 2 December 1872) was a Polish poet and geographer. Life Pol was born in Lublin (then in Galicia), to Franz Pohl (or Poll), a German in the Austrian service, and his wife Eleonora Longchamps de Berier, from a Fr ...

(1807–1872), Polish poet and geographer

Fictional characters

Pol (character) The ''Dragon Prince'' and ''Dragon Star'' trilogies comprise six connected fantasy novels written by Melanie Rawn. The ''Dragon Prince'' trilogy focuses on Prince Rohan of the Desert and his Sunrunner wife, Sioned, while the ''Dragon Star'' trilo ...

, in Melanie Rawn's ''Dragon Prince'' and ''Dragon Star'' trilogies

Science and technology

* Pol (gene) *

POL valve A POL valve (originally for Prest-O-Lite) is a gas connection fitting used on Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders. The oldest standard for such connections, it was developed by the Prest-O-Lite company, hence the name. It is still the mos ...

, a fitting found on LPG cylinders *

Pol (HIV) Pol (DNA polymerase) refers to a gene in retroviruses, or the protein produced by that gene. Products of pol include: Reverse transcriptase Common to all retroviruses, this enzyme transcribes the viral RNA into double-stranded DNA. Integrase ...

, a gene found in retroviruses * ''

Polystachya ''Polystachya'', abbreviated Pol in horticultural trade, and commonly known as yellowspike orchid, is a flowering plant genus in the orchid family (biology), family (Orchidaceae). This rather distinctive genus was described by William Jackson Hoo ...

'', abbreviation of a genus of orchid

Other uses

* HNoMS ''Pol III'', a Norwegian Navy World War II patrol boat * Pol language, a Bantu language of Cameroon *

Pol (housing) A ''pol'' (, pronounced as pole, gu, પોળ) in India is a housing cluster which comprises many families of a particular group, linked by caste, profession, or religion. Pols are typical of urban centres in Gujarat especially of Old Ahmedabad ...

, in India, a district in an "old city" area occupied by families of a particular ethnic group or caste * ''POL'' (magazine) (1968?–1986), an Australian monthly magazine *

/pol/ /pol/, short for "Politically Incorrect", is an anonymous political discussion imageboard on 4chan. As of 2022, it is the most active board on the site. It has had a substantial impact on Internet culture while acting as a platform for far-r ...

, the "politically incorrect" board on 4chan * Party of the Left, in the

Yale Political Union The Yale Political Union (YPU) is a debate society at Yale University, founded in 1934 by Alfred Whitney Griswold. It was modeled on the Cambridge Union and Oxford Union and the party system of the defunct Yale Unions of the late nineteenth and ...

* "Petroleum, Oil, and Lubricants", Class III of U.S. Armed Forces

classes of supply The United States Army divides supplies into ten numerically identifiable classes of supply. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) uses only the first five, for which NATO allies have agreed to share a common nomenclature with each other ...

* Abbreviation for

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...