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

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 rules 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
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 McStuffins a fictional character
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

Doc (nickname)

American Old West

Sports

Arts and entertainment

Military

Other

See also