Koehler

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Koehler is a transliteration of the German occupational surname Köhler, literally meaning "charcoal burner". Notable people with the surname include:

  • Ana Luiza Koehler (born 1977), Brazilian comics artist and architect.
  • Arthur Koehler (1885–1967), American investigator notable for his role in the Lindbergh kidnapping investigation
  • Bernhard Koehler (1849–1927), German industrialist and art collector
  • Carl-Erik Koehler (1895–1958), German general during World War II
  • Carla Koehler, American biochemist
  • Don Koehler (1925–1981), American recognized as tallest man in the world from 1969 to 1981
  • Ernest Koehler (1903–1960), American Olympic racewalker
  • Florence Koehler (1861–1944), American craftswoman, designer and jeweler
  • Frederick Koehler (born 1975), American actor
  • Garry Koehler (1955–2019), Australian songwriter
  • Greg Koehler (born 1975), Canadian ice hockey player for the Bloomington Prairie Thunder in the International Hockey League
  • Herman Koehler (1859–1927), American football coach, athletics administrator, and United States Army officer
  • Herman Koehler (end) (1873–1931), American college football and ice hockey player
  • Hugo W. Koehler (1886–1941), American naval officer and special agent during the Russian Civil War
  • Jack Koehler (1930–2012), German-born American journalist and executive for the Associated Press, who also briefly served as the White House Communications Director
  • James Stark Koehler (1914– 2006), American physicist, specializing in metal defects and their interactions, known for the eponymous Peach-Koehler stress formula
  • Ján Koehler (died 1895), Polish operatic baritone
  • Jean Baptiste François René Koehler – French zoologist (1860–1931), French zoologist
  • Johann Gottfried Koehler (1745–1801), German astronomer who discovered a number of nebulae, star clusters, and galaxies
  • Judy Koehler (born 1941), Republican, former Illinois State Representative, U.S. Senate nominee, 18th Congressional district primary contestant, and losing incumbent to the Illinois 3rd District Appellate Court
  • Kyle Koehler (born 1961), American politician, Representative for the 79th district of the Ohio House of Representatives
  • Lyle Koehler (1944–2015). American historian and author
  • Marc Koehler (born 1977), Dutch architect
  • Maria João Koehler (born 1992), Portuguese tennis player
  • Michael Koehler (born 1958), German scientist and diplomat
  • Megan Koehler (born 1989), Canadian curler
  • Otto Koehler (1889–1974), German zoologist and pioneer ethologist
  • Pip Koehler (1902–1986), former Major League Baseball outfielder for the 1925 New York Giants
  • Paul Koehler, drummer in Silverstein, a Canadian straight-edge emo band
  • Robert Koehler, German-born painter and art teacher who spent most of his career in the United States of America
  • Ted Koehler (1894–1973), American lyricist who collaborated with composer Harold Arlen to write for live shows and movies from the 1920s through the 1940s
  • Tom Koehler (born 1986), American baseball player

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