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)The doctor in history, literature, folk-lore, etc edited by William Andrews p.9 with a "great many good doctors" having appeared in literature by the 1890s and, in the early 1900s, the "rage for novel characters" included a number of "lady doctors".Doctor and patient By Silas Weir Mitchell p.81 Solomon Posen had collected a list of books with "a doctors as a principal figure" which he says resulted in a list of over 10,000 works as of 2005.Doctors in fiction: lessons from literature By Borys Surawicz, Beverly Jacobson
Early cinematic and television representations of doctors typically characterized the practice of medicine as being "in safe (male) hands,"Frames and fictions on television: the politics of identity within drama By Bruce Carson, Margaret Llewellyn-Jones p. 51 with 90% of doctors on television through 1989 being male.The psychology of television John C. Condry p. 76
Literature
Novel or literary workFictional doctor(s)AuthorAdventures of a Black Bag Dr. Finlay A. J. CroninAnd Then There Were None Dr. Edward George Armstrong Agatha ChristieThe Andromeda Strain Dr. Charles BurtonDr. Mark HallDr. Peter LeavittDr. Jeremy Stone Michael CrichtonArrowsmith Dr. Martin Arrowsmith Sinclair LewisAlpha and Omega Dr. Rashid Patricia BriggsAubrey–Maturin series Dr. Stephen Maturin Patrick O'BrianBert Diaries Emilia Ridderfjell's parents Anders Jacobsson and Sören OlssonBerts bravader, Rabén & Sjögren, 1991Blood Poppy Dr. Chang Jay BlackBreakheart Pass Dr. Molyneaux Alistair MacLeanA Burnt-Out Case Dr. Colin Graham GreeneCandide Dr. Pangloss VoltaireCatch-22 Dr. "Doc" Daneeka Joseph HellerChromosome 6 Dr. Jack Stapleton Robin CookThe Circus of Dr. Lao Dr. Lao Charles G. FinneyThe Citadel Dr. Andrew Manson A. J. CroninContagion Dr. Jack Stapleton Robin CookConversations with the Devil Dr. Sarah Lynch Jeff RovinCrisis Dr. Jack Stapleton Robin CookCritical Dr. Jack Stapleton Robin CookThe Dead Zone Dr. Sam Weizak Stephen KingDiscworld Dr. John "Mossy" Lawn Terry PratchettDoctor Almasaro, or The Jews of Palermo Dr. Almasaro Abraham GoldfadenDr. Futurity Dr. Jim Parsons Philip K. DickThe Doctor's Dilemma Doctor Blenkinsop George Bernard ShawDoctor Glas Dr. Glas Hjalmar SöderbergDoctor Grattan Dr. Grattan William A HammondThe Popular science monthly, Volume 26Doctor HerbeauDr. Herbeau Jules SandeauDr. Heidegger's Experiment Dr. Heidegger Nathaniel HawthorneThe Doctor is Sick Dr. Edwin Spindrift Anthony BurgessDr. Mabuse, der Spieler Dr. Mabuse Norbert JacquesDoctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marshand other Dr. Syn novels Dr. Christopher Syn Russell ThorndikeDoctor Zhivago Dr. Yuri Zhivago Boris PasternakDracula Dr. Abraham Van HelsingDr. John Seward Bram StokerDune Dr. Wellington Yueh Frank HerbertFear and Loathing in Las Vegas Dr. Gonzo (honorary) Hunter S. ThompsonFrankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus Dr. Victor Frankenstein Mary ShelleyThe Great Gatsby Dr. T.J. Eckleburg F. Scott FitzgeraldHerbert West–Reanimator Dr. Herbert West H. P. LovecraftThe House of Dr. Edwardes Dr. Anthony EdwardesDr. Constance Peterson Hilary A. SaundersThe Insidious Dr Fu Manchu Dr. Fu ManchuDr Petrie Sax RohmerThe Island of Dr. Moreau Dr. Moreau H. G. WellsJourney to the End of the Night Dr. Ferdinand Bardamu Louis-Ferdinand CélineJurassic Park Dr. Henry Wu Michael CrichtonLooking Backward, 2000-1887 Dr. Leete Edward BellamyMacbethDoctor William ShakespeareMadame Bovary Charles Bovary Gustave FlaubertMarker Dr. Jack Stapleton Robin CookMercy Thompson (series) Dr. Samuel Llewellyn Cornick Patricia BriggsMercy Thompson (series) Dr. Darryl Zao Patricia BriggsMiddlemarch Dr. Tertius Lydgate George EliotMurder on the Orient Express Dr. Constantine Agatha ChristieNaked Lunch Benway William S. BurroughsNecropolis Dr. Horace Couchman Basil CopperThe Patchwork Girl of Oz and other OZ books Dr. Pipt L. Frank BaumPaper Towns Dr. Jefferson Jefferson John GreenPhantoms Dr. Timothy FlyteDr. Jennifer Paige Dean KoontzThe Plague Dr. Bernard Rieux Albert CamusProfessor Bernhardi Professor Bernhardi, and Doctor Wenger Arthur SchnitzlerPygmalion Dr. Henry Higgins George Bernard ShawThe Seagull Dorn Anton ChekhovThe Silence of the Lambs Dr. Hannibal Lecter Thomas HarrisThe Story of Doctor Dolittle:Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Homeand Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts Never Before Printed Dr. John Dolittle Hugh LoftingThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Dr. Henry JekyllDr. Hastie Lanyon Robert Louis StevensonA Series of Unfortunate Events Dr. Montgomery Montgomery Lemony SnicketA Study in Scarlet and other Sherlock Holmes stories Dr. John H. Watson Arthur Conan DoyleSouthern Victory Series Dr. Leonard O'Doull Harry TurtledoveTender is the Night Dick Diver F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Tragical History of Doctor Faustus Dr. Faustus Christopher MarloweTreasure Island Dr. David Livesey Robert Louis StevensonUncle Vanya Astrov Anton ChekhovVector Dr. Jack Stapleton Robin CookWater Margin An Daoquan Shi Nai'anWomen of the Otherworld (novel) Dr. Clayton Danvers Kelley ArmstrongWicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West Dr. Dillamond Gregory MaguireA Young Doctor's Notebook Dr. Vladimir "Nika" Bomgard Mikhail Bulgakov4:50 from Paddington Dr. John Quimper Agatha Christie
Film