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