Kohl is a German surname derived from the word kohl, meaning cabbage. It tends to originate as an occupational name for a merchant or cultivator of the crops.
Cabbage was most likely domesticated somewhere in Europe in Ancient history before 1000 BC. Cabbage in the cuisine has been documented since Antiquity. It was described as a table luxury in the Roman Empire. By the Middle Ages, cabbage had become a prominent part of European cuisine, as indicated by manuscript illuminations. New variates were introduced from the Renaissance on, mostly by Germanic-speaking peoples.
Notable people with the surname
Bernhard Kohl (born 1982), Austrian professional cyclist
Christiane Kohl, German soprano
Franz Friedrich Kohl (1851–1924), Austrian entomologist
Hannelore Kohl (1933–2001), wife of Helmut Kohl
Helmut Kohl (1930–2017), Chancellor of Germany 1982–1998
Herb Kohl (born 1935), United States Senator
Herbert Ralph Kohl (born 1937), United States writer
Jeanne Kohl-Welles (born 1942), American politician
Jerome Kohl (1946–2020), American musicologist
Joseph Kohl (1831–1917), third mayor of Neutral Moresnet
Ludwig Kohl-Larsen (1884–1969), a German physician, amateur anthropologist, and explorer Peter Kohl (scientist), German physiologist Sheryl Davis Kohl (born 1962), a former Maryland politician Sisca Kohl (born 2002), an Indonesian internet celebrity
See also
Kohl (disambiguation) Kohler Kohl's, a company that operates department stores located in the United States Kohl Children's Museum in Glenview, Illinois, United States