Pole or poles may refer to:

People

  • Polish people, people from the country of Poland
  • Pole (surname), including a list of people with the name
  • Pole (musician) (Stefan Betke, born 1967), German electronic music artist
  • Spot Poles (Spottswood Poles, 1887–1962), American baseball player
  • Pole Atanraoi-Reim (fl. from 1992), a Kiribati lawyer
  • Pole baronets, three titles in the UK

Astronomy and geography

  • Poles of astronomical bodies
  • Celestial pole, two points where the axis of rotation intersects the celestial sphere
  • Orbital pole, two points at the end of the orbital normal
  • North magnetic pole of Earth
  • South magnetic pole of Earth
  • Pole star, a visible star approximately aligned with a celestial pole
  • Geographical pole, two points on Earth where its axis of rotation intersects its surface
  • North Pole
  • South Pole

Arts and entertainment

  • Pole, German electronic music artist
  • Pole (album), by Pole, 2003
  • Pole (Stockhausen), a 1970 composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • The Poles (band), a Canadian punk rock band
  • Pole, a character in the game Yie Ar Kung-Fu
  • Jill Pole, a character in C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia series

Places

  • Pole, Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland
  • Pole, Botswana
  • Poles, former name of Hanbury Manor, Ware, England
  • Poles, a place in Highland council area, Scotland
  • Poles, former name of Hanbury Manor, Ware, England

Science and technology

  • Pole, or terminal (electronics)
  • Pole, in contact terminology of a switch
  • Pole (unit of length), or perch or rod, a unit of length of various historical definitions
  • Pole, either end of a magnet
  • Pole (complex analysis), a certain type of mathematical singularity
  • Pole, an element of perspective (geometry)
  • Pole and polar, in geometry
  • Prospective Outlook on Long-term Energy Systems (POLES), a world simulation model for the energy sector
  • POLE (gene), in humans
  • A component found in electric motors

Objects

  • pole, a kind of stick or rod (disambiguation)
  • Chinese pole, a vertical pole used for acrobatics
  • Flagpole
  • Qutb, Sufi spiritual leader
  • Pole vault

See also

  • Axle
  • Polar (disambiguation)
  • Polarity (disambiguation)
  • Polarization (disambiguation)
  • Pole position (disambiguation)
  • Pohl (disambiguation)
  • Pohle (disambiguation)
  • Pol (disambiguation)
  • Poll (disambiguation)