Dr. Death

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Dr. Death is a moniker that has been adopted by, or an epithet that has been applied to, multiple people:

• Aribert Heim, an Austrian doctor and one of the world's most wanted Nazi war criminals.
• Jack Kevorkian, an American physician who assisted terminally ill people to commit suicide during the 1990s.
• Philip Nitschke, an Australian doctor who campaigned for legal assisted suicide in the Northern Territory and subsequently assisted four people in doing so.
• Jayant Patel, an 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.
• Steve Williams, a professional wrestler.
• Ayman al-Zawahiri Egyptian doctor, and prominent member of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and Al-Qaeda.
• James Grigson, a forensic pathologist employed by the state of Texas who was notorious for advocating the death penalty in murder trials, including those of defendants whom he had never interviewed, some of whom were later acquitted on appeal. He was expelled from the American Psychiatric Association in 1995.
• Doctor Death A fictional living puppet included in the film, Retro Puppet Master.
• Doctor Death was an early Batman villain who used a pollen gas to kill enemies.
• Doctor Death was a short-lived pulp magazine of the 1930s that featured a villainous character of that name.

Dr. Death is also the title of a novel by Jonathan Kellerman, as well as a series of compilation albums on the C'est La Mort label.