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Doctor most often refers to:

• Medical doctor, a person who is qualified to practice medicine
• Doctor (title), an academic title granted to holders of a doctorate

Doctor, Doctors, The Doctor or The Doctors may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

• The Doctor, the main character of the BBC series Doctor Who
• List of fictional doctors
• Doctor (comics), several fictional characters
• Doctor, in the film My Giant
• Doctor, in Black Cat
• The Doctor, in Hellsing
• The Doctor, in video game Cave Story
• The Doctor (Star Trek)
• The Doctor, or Scalpel, in the Transformers film series
• The Doctor or Cobra Commander, in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
• The Doctor, in Little Nightmares II
• Minoru Kamiya, also known as Doctor, in YuYu Hakusho
• The Doctor (Squid Game), also known as Byeong-yi or Player 111

Film

• Doctor (film series), British comedy films of the 1950s–1960s
• Doctor (1963 film), an Indian Malayalam-language film
• Doctor (2013 film), a South Korean horror film
• Doctor (2021 film), an Indian Tamil-language film
• Doctor (2023 film), a Russian drama
• The Doctor (1991 film), an American drama
• The Doctor (2013 film), about basketball player Julius Erving

Music

Groups

• Doctor (band), founded by Daniel Greaves
• Die Ärzte (German, 'The Doctors'), a German rock band

Albums

• The Doctor (Beenie Man album), 1999
• The Doctor (Cheap Trick album), 1986
• The Doctor, a 2005 album by Thomas Nöla
• Doctor (soundtrack), from the 2021 film

Songs

• "Doctor" (Loïc Nottet song), 2017
• "The Doctor" (Mary Wells song), 1968
• "The Doctor" (The Doobie Brothers song), 1989
• "Doctor (Work It Out)", a song by Pharrell Williams sung by Miley Cyrus, 2024
• "Doctor", a 2018 song by Chanmina
• "Doctor", a 2008 song by Cute Is What We Aim For

Television

Series

• Doctors (2000 TV series), a British medical soap opera
• Doctors (2024 TV series), an Indian medical drama
• The Doctor (1952 TV series), an American medical anthology series 1952–1953
• The Doctors (1963 TV series), an American soap opera 1963–1982
• The Doctors (1969 TV series), a British medical drama 1969–1971
• The Doctors (South Korean TV series), 2016
• The Doctors (talk show), 2008–2022

Episodes

• "Doctors" (Soupy Norman), 2007
• "The Doctor", Alcoa Premiere season 1, episode 16 (1962)
• "The Doctor", Bill the Minder episode 7 (1986)
• "The Doctor", Bluey, season 1, episode 18 (2018)
• "The Doctor", Broken Arrow season 1, episode 19 (1957)
• "The Doctor", InSecurity season 1, episode 1 (2011)
• "The Doctor", Lawman season 4, episode 34 (1962)
• "The Doctor", Motive for Murder episode 4 (1957)
• "The Doctor" (Once Upon a Time) season 2, episode 5 (2012)
• "The Doctor", Ready Eddie Go! episode 19 (2023)
• "The Doctor", Spyforce episode 22 (1972)
• "The Doctor", The Adventures of Robin Hood season 3, episode 28 (1958)
• "The Doctor", The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp season 6, episode 2 (1960)
• "The Doctor", The Secret World of Alex Mack season 4, episode 11 (1997)

Literature

• Doctors (novel), by Erich Segal, 1988
• Doctor (novel series), comic novels by Richard Gordon
• The Doctor: A Study from Life, an 1899 novel by Henry de Vere Stacpoole
• The Doctor, a 1906 novel by Ralph Connor
• The Doctor, a 1936 novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart
• James Miranda Barry, published in the US as The Doctor, a 1999 novel by Patricia Duncker
• The Doctor, a 2001 novel by Laura Spinney

Other uses in arts and entertainment

• The Doctor (painting), by Luke Fildes, 1891
• The Doctor (play), by Robert Icke, 2019
• "The Doctor", a 2002 episode of Internet animated short series DumbLand

People

• The Doctor (nickname), including a list of people with nickname or stage name of "Doctor" or "The Doctor"
• Doctor Willard Bliss (1825–1889) (given name Doctor), American physician
• Doctor Greenwood (1860–1951) (given name Doctor), English footballer
• Sean Doctor (born 1966), American football player

Other uses

• Doctor of the Church, prominent theologian in Catholic church
• Doctor (cocktail), a pre-prohibition era cocktail
• DOCTOR, a script for Joe Weizenbaum's program ELIZA, simulating a Rogerian psychotherapist
• El Doctor, a mountain range in Mexico
• Fremantle Doctor, or the Doctor, a Western Australian afternoon sea breeze
• Photograph manipulation, in which manipulated photographs are often referred to as "doctored"
• The Doctors, a lifeboat at Anstruther Lifeboat Station 1965–1991

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Doctor
• All pages with titles containing Doctor
• All pages with titles beginning with The Dr
• All pages with titles beginning with The Doctor
• All pages with titles containing Dr
• Doctor Doctor (disambiguation)
• DR (disambiguation)
• Doc (disambiguation)
• Docter (disambiguation)
• Doktor (disambiguation)
• El Médico (disambiguation)
• Daktari, an American family drama TV series 1966–1969
• Doctores metro station, in Mexico City, Mexico