Dr. Death

Dr. Death may refer to:

People

Doctors

• Wouter Basson (born 1950), South African cardiologist and former head of the country's secret chemical and biological warfare project during the apartheid era
• Christopher Duntsch (born 1971), American neurosurgeon convicted of aggravated assault for harmful surgeries he performed
• Aribert Heim (1914–1992), Austrian doctor and one of the world's most wanted Nazi war criminals
• Jack Kevorkian (1928–2011), American physician who assisted terminally ill people to commit suicide during the 1990s
• Josef Mengele (1911–1979), German doctor and infamous Nazi war criminal
• Philip Nitschke (born 1947), Australian physician who campaigned for legal assisted suicide and subsequently assisted four people in doing so
• Jayant Patel (born 1950), Indian-born American surgeon and convicted criminal who was accused of gross negligence whilst working at Bundaberg Hospital in Queensland, Australia
• Maxim Petrov (born 1965), Russian doctor and serial killer
• Porntip Rojanasunan (born 1955), Thai forensic pathologist
• Harold Shipman (1946–2004), British general practitioner and most prolific serial killer in British history
• Michael Swango (born 1954), American physician and serial killer
• Ulana Suprun (born 1963), Ukrainian-American physician, dubbed so for her unpopular medical reforms in Ukraine
• Gunther von Hagens (born 1945), German anatomist who has a collection of dead bodies
• Santosh Pol (born 1974), Indian quack doctor and serial killer from Dhom, Satara, Maharashtra, fl. 2003–2016

Athletes

• Dave Fennell (born 1952), Canadian football player
• Paul Lincoln (1932–2011), Australian professional wrestler
• Skip Thomas (1950–2011), American football player
• Steve Williams (wrestler) (1960–2009), American professional wrestler

Other people

• James Grigson (1932–2004), American psychiatrist who testified in more than 100 trials that resulted in death sentences
• Evan Harris (born 1965), British politician referred to as Dr. Death for his views on abortion and euthanasia
• Fred A. Leuchter (born 1943), American Holocaust denier and the country's only legal supplier of execution equipment and training
• Gerard Steenson (1957–1987), a North Irish leader of the paramilitary Irish People's Liberation Organisation
• Charles Cullen (born 1960), 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 Master
• Doctor 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 podcast
• Dr. Death, a 2000 novel by Jonathan Kellerman

See also

• Mr Death (disambiguation)
• Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., a 1999 documentary film by Errol Morris on the subject of Holocaust denial