Dr. Death
Dr. Death may refer to:
People
Doctors
- Wouter Basson, South African cardiologist and former head of the country's secret chemical and biological warfare project during the apartheid era
- Christopher Duntsch, American neurosurgeon convicted of aggravated assault for harmful surgeries he performed
- Aribert Heim, Austrian doctor and one of the world's most wanted Nazi war criminals
- Jack Kevorkian, American physician who assisted terminally ill people to commit suicide during the 1990s
- Josef Mengele, German doctor and infamous Nazi war criminal
- Philip Nitschke, Australian physician who campaigned for legal assisted suicide and subsequently assisted four people in doing so
- Jayant Patel, Indian-born American surgeon and convicted criminal who was accused of gross negligence whilst working at Bundaberg Hospital in Queensland, Australia
- Maxim Petrov, Russian doctor and serial killer
- Porntip Rojanasunan, Thai forensic pathologist
- Harold Shipman, British general practitioner and most prolific serial killer in British history
- Michael Swango, American physician and serial killer
- Ulana Suprun, Ukrainian-American physician, dubbed so for her unpopular medical reforms in Ukraine
- Gunther von Hagens, German anatomist who has a collection of dead bodies
- Santosh Pol, Indian quack doctor and serial killer from Dhom, Satara, Maharashtra,
Sports
- Oscar Edwards, American football player and businessman
- Dave Fennell, Canadian football player
- Paul Lincoln, Australian professional wrestler
- Skip Thomas, American football player
- Steve Williams (wrestler), American professional wrestler
Other people
- James Grigson, American psychiatrist who testified in more than 100 trials that resulted in death sentences
- Evan Harris, British politician referred to as Dr Death for his views on abortion and euthanasia
- Fred A. Leuchter, American Holocaust denier and the country's only legal supplier of execution equipment and training
- Gerard Steenson, a North Irish leader of the paramilitary Irish People's Liberation Organisation
- Charles Cullen, American nurse who murdered at least 29, possibly hundreds, of patients across the state of New Jersey
Arts and entertainment
- Doctor Death (character), a DC Comics supervillain
- Doctor Death (magazine), a pulp magazine in 1934–35 featuring a villainous character of that name
- "Dr. Death," a character played by Vincent Price in the 1974 horror film Madhouse
- Leslie "Dr. Death" Krunchner, a character in the HBO sitcom 1st & Ten
- "Doctor Death," a fictional movie character played by Wesley Snipes in The Expendables 3
- Dr. Death, a living marionette in the horror film Retro Puppet MasterDoctor Death: Seeker of Souls, a 1973 horror film
- Dr. Death (1945 TV series), a 1945 television mini-series
- Dr. Death (podcast), a podcast series produced by Wondery that tells the stories of various doctors
- Dr. Death (2021 TV series), an American crime drama television limited series, based on the podcastDr. Death, a 2000 novel by Jonathan Kellerman