Dr. Death

Dr. Death may refer to:

People

Doctors

• Wouter Basson (born 1950), South African cardiologist and former head of the country's secret chemical and biological warfare project known as Project Coast, during the Apartheid era
• James Grigson (1932–2004), American psychiatrist who testified in more than 100 trials that resulted in death sentences
• Aribert Heim (1914–1992), Austrian doctor and one of the world's most wanted Nazi war criminals
• Jack Kevorkian (1928–2011), American physician who assisted terminally ill people to commit suicide during the 1990s
• Josef Mengele (1911–1979), German doctor and also an infamous Nazi war criminal, also known as the "Angel of Death"
• Philip Nitschke (born 1947), Australian physician who campaigned for legal assisted suicide and subsequently assisted four people in doing so
• Maxim Petrov (born 1965), Russian doctor and serial killer
• Pornthip Rojanasunand (born 1955), Thai forensic pathologist
• Harold Shipman (1946–2004), British general practitioner and most prolific serial killer in British history
• Gunther von Hagens, a German doctor who has a collection of dead bodies.

Other people

• Gerard Steenson (1957–1987), North Irish leader of the IPLO organisation
• "Dr. Death" Steve Williams (1960–2009), American wrestler
• Dave Fennell (born 1952), Canadian football defensive lineman
• Skip Thomas (1950–2011), Oakland Raiders Cornerback, member of the "Soul Patrol"
• Eric Pianka (born 1939), professor of biology at University of Texas at Austin known for his misreported advocacy of the killing of 90% of the human population with microbes
• Evan Harris (born 1965), British Liberal Democrat politician, referred to as Dr. Death for his views on abortion and euthanasia
• Fred Leuchter, American holocaust denier, got the name as the country's only legal supplier of execution equipment and training.

Fiction

• Doctor Death (comics), villain in early Batman comics
• Doctor Death (magazine), a pulp magazine in 1934–35 featuring a villainous character of that name
• Dr. Death, a 2000 novel by Jonathan Kellerman
• Dr. Death, a living marionette prominently featured in Retro Puppet Master
• "Dr. Death," a fictional horror movie character played by Vincent Price in the 1974 horror film Madhouse
• Leslie "Dr. Death" Krunchner, an American football linebacker portrayed by actor Donald Gibb in the HBO sitcom 1st & Ten, which ran from 1984–1991
• Dr. Death (TV series), a 1945 television mini-series
• "Doctor Death," a fictional movie character played by Wesley Snipes in The Expendables 3

See also

• Mr Death (disambiguation)
• Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., a 1999 documentary film by Errol Morris on the subject of holocaust denial