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Doc or, less commonly, The Doc is the nickname of:

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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

    • References

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