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This is a list of fictional doctors (characters that use the appellation "doctor", medical and otherwise), from literature, films, television, and other media.. Shakespeare created a doctor in his play Macbeth (c 1603) [1] with a "great many good doctors" having appeared in literature by the 1890s [2] and, in the early 1900s, the "rage for novel characters" included a number of "lady doctors". [3]
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Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
Doctor or The Doctor is the nickname or stagename for: The Doctor (Doctor Who) The Doctor (Star Trek: Voyager) the Emergency Medical Hologram; Clive Jackson, aka "The Big Doctor", lead singer of Doctor and the Medics; W. G. Grace (1848–1915), English cricketer; Doctor Khumalo (born 1967), South African footballer
This is a list of nickname-related list articles on Wikipedia. A nickname is "a familiar or humorous name given to a person or thing instead of or as well as the real name." [ 1 ] A nickname is often considered desirable, symbolising a form of acceptance, but can sometimes be a form of ridicule.
Doctor Greenwood (1860–1951), English footballer; Roy Halladay (1977–2017), American Major League Baseball pitcher; Dick Hoblitzell (1888–1962), American Major League Baseball player; Arthur Irwin (1858–1921), Canadian-American Major League Baseball player and manager; Jack Kearns (1882–1963), American boxing manager, most notably for ...
Hollywood-inspired nicknames, most starting with the first letter or letters of the location and ending in the suffix "-ollywood" or "-wood", have been given to various locations around the world with associations to the film industry – inspired by the iconic Hollywood in Los Angeles, California, whose name has come to be a metonym for the motion picture industry of the United States.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... "The Boxing Doctor" = Harold Reitman ... (Afrikaans nickname for Muscles) = Piet du Toit (b 1935 ...