Pol or POL may refer to:

Places

* Pol State, 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 extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

Codes

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

List of IOC country codes This is a list of International Olympic Committee (IOC) country codes. Current NOCs There are 206 current NOCs (National Olympic Committees) within the Olympic Movement. The following tables show the currently used code for each NOC and any d ...

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

Polish language Polish (, , or simply , ) is a West Slavic languages, West Slavic language of the Lechitic languages, Lechitic subgroup, within the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family, and is written in the Latin script. It is primarily spo ...

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, is a country located in Southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi an ...

* 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 suburbs ...

, 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 acti ...

, 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 politician, revolutionary, and dictator who ruled the communist state of Democratic Kampuchea from 1976 until Cambodian–Vietnamese War, his overthrow in 1979. During ...

(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 (20 August 1832 – 26 July 1890) was a Russian archaeologist, geologist, ethnographer and businessman of Baltic German descent. He is most well-known for discovering Kryvbas, a major iron ore region of Eastern Europe. ...

(1832–1890), Ukrainian archaeologist and geologist *

Alice Pol Alice Pol (born 3 December 1982) is a French actress. She is known for playing the role of Anna Zvenka in ''Supercondriaque ''Supercondriaque'' (also known as ''Superchondriac'') is a 2014 French comedy film written and directed by Dany Boon. ...

(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 Strasbourg ( , ; ; ) is t ...

(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, Dar es salaam, Tanzania. On January 5, 2024, Ben Pol released his highly anticipated third album 'Flamingo', which Si ...

(born 1989), Tanzanian singer and songwriter * David Pol (born 1973), Canadian football player *

Ernest Pohl Ernest Pohl (3 November 1932 – 12 September 1995), a.k.a. Ernst Pol, was a Polish footballer who played as a striker. With 186 goals, he is the Polish top division's record goalscorer. Career Pohl scored 39 goals in 46 international matche ...

, 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 as a midfielder In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an Glossary of association football terms#O, outfield position pr ...

(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 language, Catalan poets of the twentieth century, publishing more than 1,500 poems. Biography At the age of 14, Martí i Pol starte ...

(1929–2003), Catalan poet * Nicolas Pol (born 1977), French contemporary artist * Nicolaus Pol (c.1467–1532), Austrian physician and book collector * Sandra de Pol (born 1975), Swiss footballer * Santosh Pol (born 1974), Indian serial killer *

Sebastián Pol Marcos Sebastián Pol Gutiérrez (, born 15 March 1988) is an Argentine naturalized Chilean footballer who plays as a striker for Deportes Rengo. Career Born in Tunuyán, Pol began playing football in San Lorenzo's youth ranks, and made his ...

(born 1988), Argentine footballer * Talitha Pol (1940–1971), Dutch actress and model, wife of John Paul Getty *

Victor de Pol Victor de Pol (1865 - 1925) was an Italian sculpture, sculptor and medallist most active in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Born in Venice, de Pol was a student of Giulio Monteverde. (Monteverde was also the mentor to Argentine sculptor Lola Mora.) ...

(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 ...

(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'' tril ...

, 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 most ...

, 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 (RT), which transcribes the viral RNA into double-stranded DNA. * Integrase, which integrates the DNA pr ...

, 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 (Orchidaceae). This rather distinctive genus was described by William Jackson Hooker in 1824 and is ...

'', 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, ) 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. Etymology ...

, 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 was the most active board on the site. It has had a substantial impact on Internet culture. It has acted as a platform for far-right ...

, 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 an ...

* "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 who participates in Public policy, policy-making processes, usually holding an elective position in government. Politicians represent the people, make decisions, and influence the formulation of public policy. The roles ...