Throughout the world, Poole (بول 
, Poole 
, 普尔 
, along with others...) is quite a rare primarily masculine, but very seldom girly given name. The given name Poole is habitual in Lebanon, where it is quite a rare boy's name, Sudan, and Algeria, where it is a rare boy's name. Measured by absolute frequency, this name is the most popular in Sudan, Algeria, and China. Much more frequently, Poole is the last name as well as the forename.
Poole is also a prevalent name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Paul Atreides , the fictional character from Dune; Paul Bunyan , the fictional character; Paul Stamets , the fictional character from Star Trek multiverse, Star Trek: Discovery; Georg Paul Thomann and Poole , the musical character in the musical Jekyll & Hyde by Frank Wildhorn; Jekyll's loyal manservant., and in many other works.
| sir geoffrey poole (1431-1491) (b. 1431) |
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| sir giles leonard richard poole (1520-1588) (b. 1520) |
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| walton poole Peerage person ID=213470 (b. 1565) |
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| sir william poole (1619-1651) (b. 1619) |
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| walton neville poole (born 1645) (b. 1645) |
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murray edward poole American lawyer and historian (1857–1925), US (b. 1857) |
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| hewitt poole (1812-1903) (b. 1812) |
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| fitch poole (b. 1803) |
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| cudworth halsted poole (1847-1906), GB (b. 1847) |
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ray poole United States Marine (1921-2008), US (b. 1921) |
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| dewitt clinton poole American spymaster in Revolutionary Russia (1885-1952) (b. 1885) |
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| kenyon edwards poole American economist (b. 1909) |
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| grafton poole of Alabama (1916-1952), US (b. 1916) |
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| ray poole American baseball player, US (b. 1920) |
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| minor butler poole United States Navy sailor (1920-1942), US (b. 1920) |
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