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Dr. Death

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Dr. Death may refer to:

People

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Doctors

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  • Wouter Basson (born 1950), South African cardiologist and former head of the country's secret chemical and biological warfare project during the apartheid era
  • Christopher Duntsch (born 1971), American neurosurgeon convicted of aggravated assault for harmful surgeries he performed
  • Aribert Heim (1914–1992), Austrian doctor and one of the world's most wanted Nazi war criminals
  • Jack Kevorkian (1928–2011), American physician who assisted terminally ill people to commit suicide during the 1990s
  • Josef Mengele (1911–1979), German doctor and infamous Nazi war criminal
  • Philip Nitschke (born 1947), Australian physician who campaigned for legal assisted suicide and subsequently assisted four people in doing so
  • Jayant Patel (born 1950), Indian-born American surgeon and convicted criminal who was accused of gross negligence whilst working at Bundaberg Hospital in Queensland, Australia
  • Maxim Petrov (born 1965), Russian doctor and serial killer
  • Porntip Rojanasunan (born 1955), Thai forensic pathologist
  • Harold Shipman (1946–2004), British general practitioner and most prolific serial killer in British history
  • Michael Swango (born 1954), American physician and serial killer
  • Ulana Suprun (born 1963), Ukrainian-American physician, dubbed so for her unpopular medical reforms in Ukraine
  • Gunther von Hagens (born 1945), German anatomist who has a collection of dead bodies
  • Santosh Pol (born 1974), Indian quack doctor and serial killer from Dhom, Satara, Maharashtra, fl. 2003–2016

Athletes

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Other people

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  • James Grigson (1932–2004), American psychiatrist who testified in more than 100 trials that resulted in death sentences
  • Evan Harris (born 1965), British politician referred to as Dr. Death for his views on abortion and euthanasia
  • Fred A. Leuchter (born 1943), American Holocaust denier and the country's only legal supplier of execution equipment and training
  • Gerard Steenson (1957–1987), a North Irish leader of the paramilitary Irish People's Liberation Organisation
  • Charles Cullen (born 1960), American nurse who murdered at least 29, possibly hundreds, of patients across the state of New Jersey

Arts and entertainment

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See also

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