Doc or, less commonly, The Doc is the nickname of:
American Old West
- William Frank Carver (1851âÂÂ1927), American sharpshooter and Wild West show producer
- Doc Holliday (1851âÂÂ1887), American gunfighter, gambler and dentist
- Doc Maynard (1808âÂÂ1873), American pioneer and businessman, founder of Seattle
- Doc Scurlock (1849âÂÂ1929), American cowboy and gunfighter
Athletics
- Doc Adams (1814âÂÂ1899), American baseball player and executive
- Doc Adkins (1872âÂÂ1934), American baseball player
- Doc Alexander (1897âÂÂ1975), American NFL football player and coach
- Doc Amole (1878âÂÂ1912), American baseball player
- Doc Ayers (1891âÂÂ1968), American baseball player
- Darrel Baldock (1938âÂÂ2011), Australian rules football player and coach and politician nicknamed "The Doc"
- Doc Baker (died c. early 1920s), African-American football player
- Doc Bass (1898âÂÂ1970), American baseball player
- Doc Bennett (1891âÂÂ1974), American baseball player and manager
- Doc Blanchard (1924âÂÂ2009), American football player and fighter pilot
- Doc Casey (1870âÂÂ1936), American Major League Baseball player and manager
- Matthew Clarke (Australian footballer) (born 1973), retired
- Doc Cook (baseball) (1886âÂÂ1973), American Major League Baseball player
- L. J. Cooke (1868âÂÂ1943), American college men's basketball coach
- Doc Crandall (1887âÂÂ1951), American Major League Baseball player, the first used consistently as a relief pitcher
- Donald Dann (1949âÂÂ2005), Australian Paralympic athlete
- Seán Doherty (Gaelic footballer) (born 1947), Irish former Gaelic football manager and player
- Ed Dougherty (born 1947), American golfer
- Doc Edwards (1936âÂÂ2018), American Major League Baseball player
- Mike Emrick (born 1946), American hockey broadcaster
- Julius Erving (born 1950), American basketball player
- Doc Gautreau (1901âÂÂ1970), American Major League Baseball player and manager
- Doc Gessler (1880âÂÂ1924), American Major League Baseball player
- Dwight Gooden (born 1964), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Doctor Greenwood (1860âÂÂ1951), English footballer
- Roy Halladay (1977âÂÂ2017), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Dick Hoblitzell (1888âÂÂ1962), American Major League Baseball player
- Arthur Irwin (1858âÂÂ1921), Canadian-American Major League Baseball player and manager
- Jack Kearns (1882âÂÂ1963), American boxing manager, most notably for Jack Dempsey
- Allan Kwartler (1917âÂÂ1998), American sabre and foil fencer
- Doc Lawson (born 1958), American soccer player
- Doc MacKenzie (1906âÂÂ1936), American race car driver
- Doc McJames (1874âÂÂ1901), American baseball player and physician
- Walter Meanwell (1884âÂÂ1953), college men's basketball coach
- Doc Medich (born 1948), American baseball player
- Cary Middlecoff (1921âÂÂ1998), American golfer and dentist
- Donald Minnegan (1902âÂÂ2002), coach and athletic director at Towson University
- Gil Morgan (born 1946), American golfer
- Harold Nicholls (1897âÂÂ1977), New Zealand rugby football player
- Danell Nicholson (born 1967), American former boxer
- Donncha O'Callaghan (born 1979), Irish rugby union footballer
- Derek Pace (1932âÂÂ1989), English footballer
- Doc Powers (1870âÂÂ1909), American Major League Baseball player and physician
- Doc Prothro (1893âÂÂ1971), American Major League Baseball player and manager and dentist
- Doc Redman (born 1997), American golfer
- Ross Reynolds (1887âÂÂ1970), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Doc Rivers (born 1961), American National Basketball Association player and coach
- Johnny Rutherford (baseball) (1925âÂÂ2016), Canadian Major League Baseball pitcher
- Harry Sage (1864âÂÂ1947), American Major League Baseball player
- Homer Smoot (1878âÂÂ1928), American Major League Baseball player
- Gary Wiggins (1952âÂÂ2008), Australian cyclist nicknamed "The Doc"
- Doc Wise (born 1967), American football player
- George Yeager (1874âÂÂ1940), American Major League Baseball player
Arts and entertainment
- Doc Bagby (1917âÂÂ1970), American musician
- Doc Brown (rapper) (born 1980), British rapper and comedian
- Doc Cheatham (1905âÂÂ1997), American jazz trumpeter, singer and bandleader
- Doc Guidry (1918âÂÂ1992), American Cajun and country music fiddler
- George Hager (1885âÂÂ?), American illustrator and newspaper editorial cartoonist
- Doc Hammer, American musician and writer of The Venture Bros
- Harold L. Humes (1926âÂÂ1992), American writer and activist
- Charles Kuhn (1892âÂÂ1989), American cartoonist
- Doc Neeson (1947âÂÂ2014), Irish-born Australian rock singer
- Doc Pomus (1925âÂÂ1991), 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 (1927âÂÂ2018), American playwright and screenwriter
- E. E. Smith (1890âÂÂ1965), American science fiction writer
- Doc Watson (1923âÂÂ2012), American musician and songwriter
Crime
- Arthur Barker (1899âÂÂ1939), American criminal, son of Ma Barker and a member of the Barker-Karpis gang
- Ruben Cavazos (born 1957), American criminal, former International President of the Mongols Motorcycle Club
- James Henry Dolan (1914âÂÂ1994), American criminal
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) (1923âÂÂ1994), US Navy corpsman who participated in the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima
- Donald M. Carpenter (1894âÂÂ1940), early US Navy aviator
- Ivan Dougherty (1907âÂÂ1998), Australian Army major general
- Ralph Eaton (1898âÂÂ1986), 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 (1834âÂÂ1888), American Civil War colonel and anti-slavery activist
- Rick Jolly (1946âÂÂ2018), former Royal Navy surgeon-captain nicknamed "The Doc"
- Wheeler Bryson Lipes (1920âÂÂ2005), US Navy pharmacist's mate who performed the first major surgery aboard a submarine
- Harold Anthony Oaks (1896âÂÂ1968), Canadian World War I flying ace
- Lewis Powell (conspirator) (1844âÂÂ1865), 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 (1833âÂÂ1863), Union Army officer during the American Civil War
Politics and government
- A. A. Ames (1842âÂÂ1911), American politician
- David O. Cooke (1920âÂÂ2002), American government administrator
- Charles Edgar Edgett (1883âÂÂ1947), Canadian police chief and anti-communist
- H. V. Evatt (1894âÂÂ1965), Australian politician
- TÃÂkuta Ferris (born 1978), New Zealand politician
- Doc Hastings (born 1941), American politician
- Robert Newell (politician) (1807âÂÂ1869), American politician, fur trapper and frontier doctor
- Dennis O'Keefe (politician), former mayor of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Other
See also