Doc (nickname)

American Old West

Doc Holliday (1851–1887), American gunfighter, gambler and dentist

William Frank Carver (1851-1927), American sharpshooter and Wild West show producer

Doc Scurlock (1849-1929), American cowboy and gunfighter

Sports

Doc Adams (1814-1899), American baseball player and executive

Darrel Baldock (1938-2011), Australian rules football player and coach and politician nicknamed "The Doc"

Doc Baker (died c. early 1920s), African-American football player

Doc Blanchard (1924–2009), American football player and fighter pilot

Doc Casey (1870-1936), American Major League Baseball player and manager

Matthew Clarke (Australian footballer) (born 1973), retired

Doc Cook (baseball) (1886-1973), American Major League Baseball player

L. J. Cooke (1868-1943), American college men's basketball coach

Doc Crandall (1887-1951), American Major League Baseball player, the first used consistently as a relief pitcher

Donald Dann (1949-2005), Australian Paralympic athlete

Seán Doherty (Gaelic footballer) (born 1947), Irish former Gaelic football manager and player

Ed Dougherty (born 1947), American golfer

Doc Edwards (born 1936), American Major League Baseball player

Mike Emrick (born 1946), American hockey broadcaster

Doc Gautreau (1901-1970), American Major League Baseball player and manager

Doc Gessler (1880-1924), American Major League Baseball player

Dwight Gooden (born 1964), American Major League Baseball pitcher

Roy Halladay (born 1977), American Major League Baseball pitcher

Dick Hoblitzel (1888-1962), American Major League Baseball player

Arthur Irwin (1858-1921), Canadian-American Major League Baseball player and manager

Jack Kearns (1882-1963), American boxing manager, most notably for Jack Dempsey

Doc Lawson (born 1958), American soccer player

Doc MacKenzie (1906-1936), American racecar driver

Walter Meanwell (1884-1953), college men's basketball coach

Doc Medich (born 1948), American baseball player

Cary Middlecoff (1921-1998), American golfer and dentist

Donald Minnegan (1902–2002), former coach and athletic director at Towson University

Gil Morgan (born 1946), American golfer

Harold Nicholls (1897-1977), New Zealand rugby football player

Danell Nicholson (born 1967), American former boxer

Donncha O'Callaghan (born 1979), Irish rugby union footballer

Derek Pace (1932-1989), English footballer

Doc Powers (1870-1909), American Major League Baseball player and physician

Doc Prothro (1893-1971), American Major League Baseball player and manager and dentist

Ross Reynolds (1887-1970), American Major League Baseball pitcher

Doc Rivers (born 1961), American National Basketball Association player and coach

Doc Wise (born 1967), American football player

Johnny Rutherford (baseball) (born 1925), Canadian former Major League Baseball pitcher

Harry Sage (1864-1947), American Major League Baseball player

Homer Smoot (1878-1928), American Major League Baseball player

Gary Wiggins (1952-2008), Australian cyclist nicknamed "The Doc"

Arts and entertainment

Doc Cheatham (1905-1997), American jazz trumpeter, singer and bandleader

George Hager (1885-?), American illustrator and newspaper editorial cartoonist

Doc Hammer, American musician and writer of The Venture Bros

Harold L. Humes (1926–1992), American writer and activist

Charles Kuhn (1892-1989), American cartoonist

Doc Neeson (1947-2014), Irish-born Australian rock singer

Doc Pomus (1925–1991), American blues singer and songwriter

David G. Robinson, 19th century theatrical pioneer in Northern California

Doc Searls (born 1947), American journalist, author and blogger

Doc Severinsen (born 1927), American trumpeter and bandleader

Doc Shaw (born 1992), American actor, singer and rapper

Neil Simon (born 1927), American playwright and screenwriter

E. E. Smith (1890–1965), American science fiction writer

Doc Watson (born 1923), American musician and songwriter

Military

John Bahnsen (born 1934), retired US Army brigadier general

Donald E. Ballard (born 1945), American retired colonel and Medal of Honor recipient

John Bradley (United States Navy) (1923-1994), US Navy corpsman who participated in the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima

Donald M. Carpenter (1894-1940), early US Navy aviator

Ivan Dougherty (1907-1998), Australian Army major general

Ralph Eaton (1898-1986), US Army brigadier general

Robert H. Foglesong (born 1945), retired US Air Force general

Robert R. Ingram (born 1945), retired US Navy sailor and recipient of the Medal of Honor

Charles R. Jennison (1834-1888), American Civil War colonel and anti-slavery activist

Rick Jolly (born 1946), former Royal Navy surgeon-captain nicknamed "The Doc"

Wheeler Bryson Lipes (1920-2005), US Navy pharmacist's mate who performed the first major surgery aboard a submarine (without proper equipment or formal surgical training)

Harold Anthony Oaks (1896-1968), Canadian World War I flying ace

Lewis Powell (conspirator) (1844-1865), Confederate soldier hanged for his part in the Abraham Lincoln assassination plot

Alfred V. Rascon (born 1945), US Army retired lieutenant colonel and Medal of Honor recipient

Eugene Roe (1921-1998), US Army medic portrayed in the miniseries Band of Brothers

William P. Sanders (1833-1863), Union Army officer during the American Civil War

Other

A. A. Ames (1842–1911), American politician

John W. A. "Doc" Buyers (1928-2006), American business executive

Ruben Cavazos (born 1957), American criminal, former International President of the Mongols Motorcycle Club

Charles Edgar Edgett (1883-1947), Canadian police chief and anti-communist

Maurice Ewing (1906-1974), American geophysicist and oceanographer

Michael Keiner (born 1959), German poker player and plastic surgeon nicknamed "The Doc"

Robert Newell (politician) (1807-1869), American politician, fur trapper and frontier doctor

Maynard Jack Ramsay (1914-2005), American entomologist

James Sisnett (1900-2013), Barbadian supercentenarian