Doctor

"Docter" redirects here. For the director/animator, see Pete Docter.

Doctor may refer to:

Healthcare

• Physician, a doctor of medicine
• Physical Therapist, a doctor of physical therapy
• Pharmacist, a doctor of pharmacy
• Nurse Practitioner, a doctor of nursing practice
• Dentist, a doctor of dental medicine
• Surgeon, a doctor of surgery
• Osteopath, a doctor of osteopathy
• Veterinarian, a doctor of veterinary medicine
• Podiatrist, a doctor of podiatry
• Optometrist, a doctor of optometry
• Chiropractor, a doctor of chiropractic

Academia

• Doctor (title), the holder of a doctorate.

Religion

• Doctor of the Church, Title given to those with great contribution to theology or doctrine.

People named or nicknamed Doctor

• Julius Erving (b. 1950), American basketball player
• W. G. Grace (1848–1915), English cricketer
• Doctor Willard Bliss (1825-1889), American physician
• Doctor Greenwood (1860–1951), English footballer
• Doctor Khumalo (b. 1967), South African footballer
• Lindsay McDougall, Australian radio host
• Valentino Rossi (b. 1979), Italian motorcycle racer
• Dwight Gooden (b. 1964), American baseball player
• Dr. John (b. 1940), American singer/songwriter, pianist and guitarist
• Andre Dr. Dre Young(b. 1965), American Hip Hop Artist/Producer/Actor
• André Doctor Dré Brown (b. 1963), American radio personality and former host of Yo! MTV Raps
• Lou Holtz (Dr. Lou) Segment on ESPN for College Football
• Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981), Welsh Protestant minister
• Roland Rotherham, British historian and lecturer

Fictional characters

• The Doctor (Doctor Who)
• The Doctor (Star Trek: Voyager)
• Doctor (Hellsing)
• Doctor Dolittle (by Hugh John Lofting)
• Doctor (Wildstorm)
• Il Dottore (The Doctor), a commedia dell'arte stock character
• Fuyuhiko Date ("The Doctor"), a character in the video game Cave Story
• "The Doctor", a character also known as Cobra Commander in the movie G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
• "The Doctor", a character also known as Scalpel in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Film and television

• Doctor (film), a Malayalam film directed by M. S. Mani
• The Doctor (film), a 1991 movie starring William Hurt
• The Doctor (TV Movie), a 2011 television movie starring Kyle MacLachlan and Eva Amurri
• The Doctor (1952 TV series), a 1951–1952 NBC nonfiction series
• Doc, a 2001-2004 PAX TV series
• The Doctors (1963 TV series), a 1963–1982 NBC soap opera
• The Doctors (1969 TV series), a 1969–1971 BBC medical drama
• Doctors (2000 TV series), a BBC soap opera
• The Doctors (2008 TV series), an American syndicated health-related talk show
• The Dr. Oz Show, American medical advice show hosted by Mehmet Oz
• Doctor Phil, American advice talk show hosted by Phil McGraw
• Doctor Who, a British science fiction television series

Music

• Doctor (band)
• "The Doctor" (Cheap Trick album)
• "The Doctor" (Beenie Man album)
• "The Doctor" (Thomas Nöla et son Orchestre album)
• "The Doctor" (Mary Wells song)
• "The Doctor" (Doobie Brothers song)
• "Doctor", song by Cute Is What We Aim For
• The Doctor, lead singer of the band Doctor and the Medics
• Doctor, Doctor (The Who song)

Other uses

• Doctor (comics)
• DOCTER (optics), a German manufacturer of sports optics
• DOCTOR, a script for Joe Weizenbaum's program ELIZA simulating a Rogerian psychotherapist
• Doctors (novel), by Erich Segal
• The Doctor, a painting by Luke Fildes
• The Cape Doctor
• The Fremantle Doctor
• Doctor's Associates, the parent company of the Subway restaurant chain
• Doctor blade, a thin scraper blade held against a rotating cylinder to remove, apply, or distribute a material on the cylinder

See also

• Doc (disambiguation)
• Doctor Doctor (disambiguation)
• List of fictional doctors
• List of physicians