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:

• Dennis Allen, Melbourne drug dealer.
• Aribert Heim, an Austrian doctor and one of the world's most wanted Nazi war criminals.
• Josef Mengele, a German doctor and also an infamous Nazi war criminal, also known as the "Angel of Death."
• 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.
• Dr. Abdullah (AKA Abdullah Abdullah), foreign minister in Hamid Karzai's Afghan government, 2001-2006. He received the moniker due to his service, under abysmal conditions, as a refugee camp medic and later field surgeon in the Afghan Civil War, not because he was considered cruel or murderous.
• Ayman al-Zawahiri Egyptian doctor, and prominent member of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and Al-Qaeda.
• James Grigson, a forensic psychiatrist 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.
• Wouter Basson, a 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 was a fictional living puppet 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.
• Matt "Dr. Death" Jackson was a 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.