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