# Dr. Death

Dr. Death may refer to:

## People
### Doctors

* Wouter Basson (born 1950), South African cardiologist and former head of the country's secret chemical and biological warfare project during the apartheid era
* Christopher Duntsch (born 1971), American neurosurgeon convicted of aggravated assault for harmful surgeries he performed
* Aribert Heim (1914–1992), Austrian doctor and one of the world's most wanted Nazi war criminals
* Jack Kevorkian (1928–2011), American physician who assisted terminally ill people to commit suicide during the 1990s
* Josef Mengele (1911–1979), German doctor and infamous Nazi war criminal
* Philip Nitschke (born 1947), Australian physician who campaigned for legal assisted suicide and subsequently assisted four people in doing so
* Jayant Patel (born 1950), Indian-born American surgeon and convicted criminal who was accused of gross negligence whilst working at Bundaberg Hospital in Queensland, Australia
* Maxim Petrov (born 1965), Russian doctor and serial killer
* Porntip Rojanasunan (born 1955), Thai forensic pathologist
* Harold Shipman (1946–2004), British general practitioner and most prolific serial killer in British history
* Michael Swango (born 1954), American physician and serial killer
* Ulana Suprun (born 1963), Ukrainian-American physician, dubbed so for her unpopular medical reforms in Ukraine
* Gunther von Hagens (born 1945), German anatomist who has a collection of dead bodies
* Santosh Pol (born 1974), Indian quack doctor and serial killer from Dhom, Satara, Maharashtra, fl. 2003–2016

### Athletes

* Dave Fennell (born 1952), Canadian football player
* Paul Lincoln (1932–2011), Australian professional wrestler
* Skip Thomas (1950–2011), American football player
* Steve Williams (wrestler) (1960–2009), American professional wrestler

### Other people

* James Grigson (1932–2004), American psychiatrist who testified in more than 100 trials that resulted in death sentences
* Evan Harris (born 1965), British politician referred to as Dr Death for his views on abortion and euthanasia
* Rishi Sunak (born 1980), British politician referred to as Dr Death for his economic policies as Chancellor of the Exchequer during the COVID-19 pandemic, which was credited with increasing COVID-19 infections in the country
* Fred A. Leuchter (born 1943), American Holocaust denier and the country's only legal supplier of execution equipment and training
* Gerard Steenson (1957–1987), a North Irish leader of the paramilitary Irish People's Liberation Organisation
* Charles Cullen (born 1960), American nurse who murdered at least 29, possibly hundreds, of patients across the state of New Jersey

## Arts and entertainment

* Doctor Death (character), a DC Comics supervillain
* Doctor Death (magazine), a pulp magazine in 1934–35 featuring a villainous character of that name
* "Dr. Death," a character played by Vincent Price in the 1974 horror film Madhouse
* Leslie "Dr. Death" Krunchner, a character in the HBO sitcom 1st & Ten
* "Doctor Death," a fictional movie character played by Wesley Snipes in The Expendables 3
* Dr. Death, a living marionette in the horror film Retro Puppet Master
* Doctor Death: Seeker of Souls, a 1973 horror film
* Dr. Death (1945 TV series), a 1945 television mini-series
* Dr. Death (podcast), a podcast series produced by Wondery that tells the stories of various doctors
* Dr. Death (2021 TV series), an American crime drama television limited series, based on the podcast
* Dr. Death, a 2000 novel by Jonathan Kellerman