Doc (nickname)

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

  Sports

• Doc Adams, American baseball player and executive
• Doc Alexander, American NFL football player and coach
• Darrel Baldock, Australian rules football player and coach and politician nicknamed "The Doc"
• Doc Baker, African-American football player
• Doc Blanchard, American football player and fighter pilot
• Doc Casey, American Major League Baseball player and manager
• Matthew Clarke , retired
• Doc Cook , 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 , Irish former Gaelic football manager and player
• Ed Dougherty, American golfer
• Doc Edwards, American Major League Baseball player
• Mike Emrick, American hockey broadcaster
• 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
• 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
• Ross Reynolds, American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Doc Rivers, American National Basketball Association player and coach
• Doc Wise, American football player
• Johnny Rutherford , 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"

  Arts and entertainment

• Doc Cheatham, American jazz trumpeter, singer and bandleader
• George Hager, 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, 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, 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 , 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 , 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

  Other

• A. A. Ames, American politician
• 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
• Charles Edgar Edgett, Canadian police chief and anti-communist
• H.V. Evatt, Australian politician
• Maurice Ewing, American geophysicist and oceanographer
• Michael Keiner, German poker player and plastic surgeon nicknamed "The Doc"
• Robert Newell , American politician, fur trapper and frontier doctor
• Maynard Jack Ramsay, American entomologist
• George M. Willing, American physician, prospector, and political lobbyist