title: Vorpahl
text: # Vorpahl
  
  Vorpahl (from German: vor "before", "in front of" plus Pfahl "pole", "pale") is a Low German dwelling/habitational surname for a person who lived at a boundary marker (Grenzpfahl: "boundary post"). Notable people with the name include:
  
  * Chris Vorpahl (born 1990), retired Chilean female volleyball player
  * Kurt Vorpahl [de] (1905–1944), German communist resistance fighter against Nazism
  * Mildred Vorpahl Baass (1917–2012), American poet
  * Nicole Vorpahl (born 1994), Chilean volleyball player
  