Doctor

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

Doctor may refer to:

Healthcare

• Physician, a medical doctor
• Dentist, a dental doctor
• Veterinarian, a veterinary doctor
• Audiologist, an audiometric (hearing) doctor
• Chiropractor, a chiropractic (bone alignment) doctor
• physical therapist, a physical therapy doctor
• Optometrist, an optometric (sight) doctor
• Podiatrist, a podiatric (foot) doctor
• Psychologist, a psychological (mental state) doctor

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 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
• Doctor Phil

Fictional characters

• Doctor (Doctor Who)
• Doctor (Star Trek)
• 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 (Transformers) in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Film and television

• Doctor (film), a Malayalam film directed by M. S. Mani
• The Doctor (film)
• 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
• Doctor Who (TV Series), a science fiction show
• Doctor Phil, an American advice talk show

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)
• The Doctor, lead singer of the band Doctor and the Medics
• Byron "Doctor" Jones, Composer, SAC-Sacramento Artist Coalition founder
• 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 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