Doc (nickname)
Doc or, less commonly, The Doc is the nickname of:
American Old West
- Doc Holliday, American gunfighter, gambler and dentist
- William Frank Carver, American sharpshooter and Wild West show producer
- Doc Scurlock, American cowboy and gunfighter
- David Swinson Maynard, American pioneer and businessman, founder of Seattle
Sports
- Doc Adams, American baseball player and executive
- Doc Adkins, American baseball player
- Doc Alexander, American NFL football player and coach
- Doc Amole, American baseball player
- Doc Ayers, American baseball player
- Darrel Baldock, Australian rules football player and coach and politician nicknamed "The Doc"
- Doc Baker, African-American football player
- Doc Bass, American baseball player
- Doc Bennett, American baseball player and manager
- Doc Blanchard, American football player and fighter pilot
- Doc Casey, American Major League Baseball player and manager
- Matthew Clarke (Australian footballer), retired
- Doc Cook (baseball), American Major League Baseball player
- L. J. Cooke, American college men's basketball coach
- Doc Crandall, American Major League Baseball player, the first used consistently as a relief pitcher
- Donald Dann, Australian Paralympic athlete
- Seán Doherty (Gaelic footballer), Irish former Gaelic football manager and player
- Ed Dougherty, American golfer
- Doc Edwards, American Major League Baseball player
- Mike Emrick, American hockey broadcaster
- Julius Erving, American basketball player
- Doc Gautreau, American Major League Baseball player and manager
- Doc Gessler, American Major League Baseball player
- Dwight Gooden, American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Doctor Greenwood, English footballer
- Roy Halladay, American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Dick Hoblitzell, American Major League Baseball player
- Arthur Irwin, Canadian-American Major League Baseball player and manager
- Jack Kearns, American boxing manager, most notably for Jack Dempsey
- Allan Kwartler, American sabre and foil fencer, Pan American Games and Maccabiah Games champion
- Doc Lawson, American soccer player
- Doc MacKenzie, American race car driver
- Doc McJames, American baseball player and physician
- Walter Meanwell, college men's basketball coach
- Doc Medich, American baseball player
- Cary Middlecoff, American golfer and dentist
- Donald Minnegan, former coach and athletic director at Towson University
- Gil Morgan, American golfer
- Harold Nicholls, New Zealand rugby football player
- Danell Nicholson, American former boxer
- Donncha O'Callaghan, Irish rugby union footballer
- Derek Pace, English footballer
- Doc Powers, American Major League Baseball player and physician
- Doc Prothro, American Major League Baseball player and manager and dentist
- Doc Redman, American golfer
- Ross Reynolds, American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Doc Rivers, American National Basketball Association player and coach
- Johnny Rutherford (baseball), Canadian former Major League Baseball pitcher
- Harry Sage, American Major League Baseball player
- Homer Smoot, American Major League Baseball player
- Gary Wiggins, Australian cyclist nicknamed "The Doc"
- Doc Wise, American football player
- George Yeager, American Major League Baseball player
Arts and entertainment
- Doc Bagby, American musician
- Doc Brown (rapper), British rapper and comedian
- Doc Cheatham, American jazz trumpeter, singer and bandleader
- Doc Guidry, American Cajun and country music fiddler
- George Hager, American illustrator and newspaper editorial cartoonist
- Doc Hammer, American musician and writer of The Venture Bros
- Harold L. Humes, American writer and activist
- Charles Kuhn, American cartoonist
- Doc Neeson, Irish-born Australian rock singer
- Doc Pomus, American blues singer and songwriter
- David G. Robinson (theatre pioneer), 19th century theatrical pioneer in Northern California
- Doc Searls, American journalist, author and blogger
- Doc Severinsen, American trumpeter and bandleader
- Doc Shaw, American actor, singer and rapper
- Neil Simon, American playwright and screenwriter
- E. E. Smith, American science fiction writer
- Doc Watson, American musician and songwriter
Military
- John Bahnsen, retired US Army brigadier general
- Donald E. Ballard, American retired colonel and Medal of Honor recipient
- John Bradley (United States Navy), US Navy corpsman who participated in the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima
- Donald M. Carpenter, early US Navy aviator
- Ivan Dougherty, Australian Army major general
- Ralph Eaton, US Army brigadier general
- Robert H. Foglesong, retired US Air Force general
- Robert R. Ingram, retired US Navy sailor and recipient of the Medal of Honor
- Charles R. Jennison, American Civil War colonel and anti-slavery activist
- Rick Jolly, former Royal Navy surgeon-captain nicknamed "The Doc"
- Wheeler Bryson Lipes, US Navy pharmacist's mate who performed the first major surgery aboard a submarine
- Harold Anthony Oaks, Canadian World War I flying ace
- Lewis Powell (conspirator), Confederate soldier hanged for his part in the Abraham Lincoln assassination plot
- Alfred V. Rascon, US Army retired lieutenant colonel and Medal of Honor recipient
- William P. Sanders, Union Army officer during the American Civil War
Politics and government
- A. A. Ames, American politician
- David O. Cooke, American government administrator
- Charles Edgar Edgett, Canadian police chief and anti-communist
- H. V. Evatt, Australian politician
- Tākuta Ferris, New Zealand politician
- Doc Hastings, American politician
- Robert Newell (politician), American politician, fur trapper and frontier doctor
- Dennis O'Keefe (politician), former mayor of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Other
- Arthur Barker, American criminal, son of Ma Barker and a member of the Barker-Karpis gang
- John W. A. "Doc" Buyers, American business executive
- Ruben Cavazos, American criminal, former International President of the Mongols Motorcycle Club
- Maurice Ewing, American geophysicist and oceanographer
- Michael Keiner, German poker player and plastic surgeon nicknamed "The Doc"
- Doc Quigg, American journalist
- Maynard Jack Ramsay, American entomologist
- George M. Willing, American physician, prospector, and political lobbyist