Koehl, also transliterated Köhl, is an Upper German surname constituting a metaphonic variant of the Standard German surname Kohl, derived from the cognate word kohl, meaning cabbage. It tends to originate as an occupational name for a cultivator or merchant of the crops.^[1]

• 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
• Matthias Koehl (1935–2014), American U.S. Marine, and political activist
• 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

• Koehl Lab, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley^[2]