Dr. Death

• Dennis Allen, Melbourne drug dealer
• Aribert Heim, Austrian doctor and one of the world's most wanted Nazi war criminals
• Josef Mengele, German doctor and also an infamous Nazi war criminal, also known as the "Angel of Death"
• Jack Kevorkian, American physician who assisted terminally ill people to commit suicide during the 1990s
• Philip Nitschke, Australian doctor who campaigned for legal assisted suicide in the Northern Territory and subsequently assisted four people in doing so
• Jayant Patel, United States and India trained doctor who is accused of gross incompetence leading to the deaths of many patients in Queensland, Australia
• Harold Shipman, British general practitioner and most prolific serial killer in British history
• "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, professional wrestler
• Abdullah (Afghanistan) (AKA Abdullah Abdullah), foreign minister in Hamid Karzai's Afghan government, 2001-2006
• Ayman al-Zawahiri Egyptian doctor, and prominent member of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and Al-Qaeda
• Wouter Basson, South African cardiologist and former head of the country's secret chemical and biological warfare project known as Project Coast, during the Apartheid era

In fiction:

• Doctor Death (Puppet Master) was a fictional living puppet in the film Retro Puppet Master
• Doctor Death (comics) was an early Batman villain who used a pollen gas to kill enemies
• Doctor Death (magazine) was a short-lived pulp magazine of the 1930s that featured a villainous character of that name
• Matt "Dr. Death" Jackson, fictional character in the computer game ''Outlaws
• Dr. Death is a novel by Jonathan Kellerman, as well as a series of compilation albums on the C'est La Mort label

Associated:

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