Doug

This article is about the given name. For the television series, see Doug (TV series).

Doug is a male personal name (or, depending on which definition of "personal name" one uses, part of a personal name). It is sometimes a given name (or "first name"), but more often it is hypocorism (affectionate variation of a personal name) which takes the place of a given name, usually Douglas. Notable people with the name include:

People

• Doug Niknam (Dripwreckstv)
• Doug Anderson (disambiguation)
• Doug Applegate (disambiguation)
• Doug Armstrong (born 1964), Canadian National Hockey League team general manager
• Doug Armstrong (broadcaster) (1931-2015), New Zealand cricketer, television sports broadcaster and politician
• Doug Baldwin (born 1988), American football player
• Doug Baldwin (ice hockey) (1922–2007), Canadian ice hockey player
• Doug Bennett (disambiguation)
• Doug Bereuter (born 1939), American former politician
• Doug Bing (born 1950/51), Canadian politician
• Doug Bowser (born 1965), current President of Nintendo of America .
• Doug Bradley, English actor
• Doug Brown (disambiguation)
• Doug Burgum (born 1956), Governor of North Dakota (2016–present)
• Doug Cameron (disambiguation)
• Doug Carpenter (born 1942), former National Hockey League head coach
• Doug Chapman (disambiguation)
• Doug Christie (basketball) (born 1970), American basketball player
• Doug Christie (lawyer) (1946–2013), Canadian lawyer and activist
• Doug Clark (disambiguation)
• Doug Collins (disambiguation)
• Doug Cooper (racing driver) (1938–1987), American NASCAR driver
• Doug Cowie (footballer) (born 1926), Scottish footballer
• Doug Cowie (umpire) (born 1946), New Zealand cricket umpire
• Doug Cox (disambiguation)
• Doug Cunningham (politician) (born 1954), former Nebraska State Senator
• Doug Cunningham (American football) (1945–2015), American former National Football League running back
• Doug Davies (disambiguation)
• Doug Davis (disambiguation)
• Doug DeMuro (1988), American automotive journalist
• Doug Elliot (politician) (1917–1989), Australian politician
• Doug Elliott (author), American storyteller, naturalist and author
• Doug Elliott (musician) (born 1962), Canadian musician
• Douglas Engelbart (1925–2013), American engineer, inventor and early computer and Internet pioneer
• Doug Evans (disambiguation)
• Doug Ferguson (disambiguation)
• Doug Fisher (actor) (1941–2000), British actor
• Doug Fisher (politician) (1919–2009), Canadian politician and columnist
• Doug Ford (disambiguation)
• Doug Fraser (Australian footballer) (1886–1919), Australian rules footballer
• Doug Fraser (Scottish footballer) (born 1941), Scottish football player and manager
• Doug Frost (swimming coach) (born 1943), Australian swimming coach
• Doug Frost (wine), American Master of Wine, Master Sommelier and author
• Doug Gibson (ice hockey) (born 1953), Canadian ice-hockey player
• John Douglas Gibson (1925/26–1984), usually known as Doug Gibson, Australian ornithologist
• Doug Graham (disambiguation)
• Doug Green (disambiguation)
• Doug Gurr, British businessman
• Doug Harris (disambiguation)
• Doug Harvey (ice hockey) (1924–1989), Canadian National Hockey League player, member of the Hockey Hall of Fame
• Doug Harvey (umpire) (born 1930), member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
• Doug Henry (baseball) (born 1963), American former Major League Baseball relief pitcher
• Doug Henry (motocross) (born 1969), American former motocross racer, three-time AMA national champion
• Doug Hoyle, Baron Hoyle (born 1930), British politician
• Doug Johnson (disambiguation)
• Doug Jones (disambiguation)
• Doug Kelly (footballer), English footballer in the 1950s
• Doug Kershaw (born 1936), American country music fiddle player, singer and songwriter
• Doug Lee (basketball) (born 1964), American retired National Basketball Association player
• Doug Lewis (disambiguation)
• Doug Lowe (Australian politician) (born 1942), 35th Premier of Tasmania
• Doug MacLeod (musician) (born 1946), American blues musician, guitarist, and songwriter
• Doug MacLeod (TV writer) (born 1959), Australian screenwriter and author
• Doug Martin (disambiguation)
• Doug McAdam (born 1951), sociology professor at Stanford University
• Doug McEnulty (1922-1991), American National Football League player
• Doug McIntosh, American basketball player
• Doug McLean, Sr. (1880-1947), Australian rugby union and rugby league player
• Doug Mitchell (Canadian football) (born 1942), retired Canadian Football League offensive lineman
• Doug Mitchell (film producer) (born 1952)
• Doug McLean, Jr. (1912-1961), Australian rugby union and rugby league player, son of Doug McLean, Sr.
• Doug Morgan (disambiguation)
• Doug Mowat (1929-1992), Canadian politician
• Doug Parkinson, Australian singer active since the 1960s
• Doug Parkinson (politician) (born 1945), Australian former politician
• Doug Peterson (born 1945), American yacht designer
• Doug Peterson (politician) (born 1959), American lawyer and politician
• Doug Powell (disambiguation)
• Doug Roberts (ice hockey) (born 1942), American former National Hockey League and World Hockey Association player
• Doug Robinson (ice hockey) (born 1940), Canadian former National Hockey League player
• Doug Rogers (disambiguation)
• Doug Smith (disambiguation)
• Doug Smylie (1922–1983), Canadian Football League player
• Doug Spradley (born 1960), American-German basketball coach and former player
• Doug Sutherland (disambiguation)
• Doug Taitt (1902-1970), American Major League Baseball player and minor league player/manager
• Doug Walker (born 1981), American actor and internet personality
• Doug White (politician), American member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1991-1996) and Senate (1996-2004)
• Doug White (news anchor) (1944–2006), American news anchor
• Doug Williams (disambiguation)
• Doug Wilson (disambiguation)
• Doug Wright (disambiguation)

Fictional characters

• Doug Borski, one of the main characters on the Canadian teen-adult animated series Sons of Butcher
• Doug Carter, on the British soap opera Hollyoaks
• Doug Funnie, the main character on the animated series Doug
• Doug McKenzie, on the Canadian television show SCTV
• Douglas Potts, in the British soap opera Emmerdale
• Doug Willis, on the Australian soap opera Neighbours
• Doug, a baby in the comic strip Dog Eat Doug
• Doug Dimmadome, owner of the Dimmsdale Dimmadome
• Doug Roberts, the architect of the Glass Tower in the 1974 disaster film The Towering Inferno