# Doc (nickname)

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

## 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
* David Swinson Maynard (1808-1873), American pioneer and businessman, founder of Seattle

## Sports

* Doc Adams (1814–1899), American baseball player and executive
* Doc Adkins (1872–1934), American baseball player
* Doc Alexander (1897–1975), American NFL football player and coach
* Doc Amole (1878–1912), American baseball player
* Doc Ayers (1891–1968), American baseball player
* 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 Bass (1898–1970), American baseball player
* Doc Bennett (1891–1974), American baseball player and manager
* 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 (1936–2018), American Major League Baseball player
* Mike Emrick (born 1946), American hockey broadcaster
* Julius Erving (born 1950), American basketball player
* 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
* Doctor Greenwood (1860–1951), English footballer
* Roy Halladay (1977–2017), American Major League Baseball pitcher
* Dick Hoblitzell (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
* Allan Kwartler (1917–1998), American sabre and foil fencer, Pan American Games and Maccabiah Games champion
* Doc Lawson (born 1958), American soccer player
* Doc MacKenzie (1906–1936), American race car driver
* Doc McJames (1874–1901), American baseball player and physician
* 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
* Doc Redman (born 1997), American golfer
* Ross Reynolds (1887–1970), American Major League Baseball pitcher
* Doc Rivers (born 1961), American National Basketball Association player and coach
* Johnny Rutherford (baseball) (1925–2016), 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"
* Doc Wise (born 1967), American football player
* George Yeager (1874–1940), American Major League Baseball player

## Arts and entertainment

* Doc Bagby, American musician
* Doc Brown (rapper) (born 1980), British rapper and comedian
* 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
* Owen Smith, Producer at game development company Uncommon Chocolate
* 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 (theatre pioneer), 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 (1927–2018), American playwright and screenwriter
* E. E. Smith (1890–1965), American science fiction writer
* Doc Watson (1923–2012), 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 (1946–2018), 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
* 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
* William P. Sanders (1833–1863), Union Army officer during the American Civil War

## Politicians and government officials

* A. A. Ames (1842–1911), American politician
* David O. Cooke (1920–2002), American government administrator
* Charles Edgar Edgett (1883–1947), Canadian police chief and anti-communist
* H. V. Evatt (1894–1965), Australian politician
* Doc Hastings (1941-), American politician
* Robert Newell (politician) (1807–1869), American politician, fur trapper and frontier doctor
* Dennis O'Keefe (politician), former mayor of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

## Other

* Arthur Barker (1899–1939), American criminal, son of Ma Barker and a member of the Barker-Karpis gang
* John W. A. "Doc" Buyers (1928–2006), American business executive
* Ruben Cavazos (born 1957), American criminal, former International President of the Mongols Motorcycle Club
* Maurice Ewing (1906–1974), American geophysicist and oceanographer
* Michael Keiner (born 1959), German poker player and plastic surgeon nicknamed "The Doc"
* Doc Quigg (1911–1998), American journalist
* Maynard Jack Ramsay (1914–2005), American entomologist
* George M. Willing (1829–1874), American physician, prospector, and political lobbyist