| Name | Work | Medium | Author/Distributor | Actor(s) |
|---|
| Misir Ali | Several (See Misir Ali) | Novel series and films | Humayun Ahmed | Abul Khair, Abul Hayat, Jayanta Chattopadhyay, Ashish Khandaker, Shatabdi Wadud, Chanchal Chowdhury, Humayun Faridi |
| Dr. Alfred Bellows | I Dream of Jeannie | TV series | NBC | Hayden Rorke |
| Dr. Alistair Crown | A Solitary Grief | novel | Bernice Rubens | |
| Dr. Andrey Yefimitch Ragin | "Ward No. 6" | short story | Anton Chekhov | |
| Dr. Cliff Patel | Silver Linings Playbook | film | Weinstein Company | Anupam Kher |
| Dr. Benjamin "Ben" Harmon | American Horror Story | TV series | FX | Dylan McDermott |
| Dr. Ben Sobel | Analyze This & Analyze That | 1999 film, 2002 sequel | Warner Brothers | Billy Crystal |
| Dr. Bernie Feld | Hope Springs | film | Columbia Pictures | |
| Dr. Beverly Barlowe | Eureka | TV series | Syfy | Debrah Farentino |
| Dr. Bill Capa | Color of Night | film | Cinergi Pictures Entertainment | Bruce Willis |
| Dr. Bill Hoffman | Help Me Help You | TV series | ABC | |
| Dr. Charles Kroger | Monk | TV series | USA Network | Stanley Kamel |
| Dr. Charles Render | He Who Shapes | novella | Roger Zelazny | |
| Dr. Craig Huffstodt | Huff | TV series | Showtime | Hank Azaria |
| Dr. Daniel P. Schreber | Dark City | film | New Line Cinema | |
| Dr. Dick Diver | Tender Is the Night | novel | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| Dr. Elliot Kupferberg | The Sopranos | TV series | HBO | Peter Bogdanovich |
| Dr. Emil Slyker | "A Deskful of Girls" | short story | Fritz Leiber | |
| Dr. Frasier Crane | Cheers
Frasier | TV sitcom | NBC | Kelsey Grammer |
| Dr. Gail Adamson Baldwin | General Hospital | TV series | ABC | Susan Brown |
| Dr. Gideon Largeman | Garden State | film | Fox Searchlight Pictures | Ian Holm |
| Gag Halfrunt | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | radio et al. | Douglas Adams | |
| Dr. Henry Sikorsky | The Dream Team | film | Universal Studios | |
| Dr. Isaac Barr | Final Analysis | film | Warner Bros. | |
| Jacob's doctor | Jacob's Ladder | film | TriStar Pictures | Lewis Black |
| Dr. James Harvey | Casper
The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper | film, TV series | Universal Studios | |
| Dr. Janet Ross | The Terminal Man | film | Warner Bros. | Joan Hackett |
| Dr. Jennifer Melfi | The Sopranos | TV series | HBO | Lorraine Bracco |
| Dr. George Huang | Law and Order: Special Victims Unit | TV series | NBC | B.D. Wong |
| Dr. Grace Foley | Waking the Dead | TV series | BBC | |
| Dr. Bill Beecroft | Red Dragon and sequels | novels, films | Thomas Harris | |
| Dr. Hollingshead | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | short story, film | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | |
| Dr. Hugh Beale | St. Elsewhere | TV series | CBS | G.W. Bailey |
| Dr. Iggy Frome | New Amsterdam | TV series | NBC | Tyler Labine |
| Dr. Igor | Veronika Decides to Die | novel | Paulo Coelho | |
| Dr. Jonathan Banks | Side Effects | film | Open Road Films | Jude Law |
| Capt. Josiah J. Newman | Captain Newman, M.D. | film | Universal Studios | Gregory Peck |
| Admiral Katrina Cornwell | Star Trek: Discovery | TV series | CBS All Access | Jayne Brook |
| Dr. Lainey Winters | General Hospital | TV series | ABC | |
| Dr. Laura Horton | Days of Our Lives | soap opera | NBC | |
| Dr. Laszlo Kreizler | The Alienist, The Angel of Darkness | novels | Caleb Carr | |
| Dr. Leigh Sapien | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | TV series | CBS | Brenda Strong |
| Dr. Jane Falifax | Halifax f.p. | TV series | Nine Network | Rebecca Gibney |
| Dr. Leo Marvin | What About Bob? | film | Touchstone Pictures | Richard Dreyfuss |
| Dr. Lilith Sternin | Cheers
Frasier | TV sitcom | NBC | Bebe Neuwirth |
| Dr. Linda Freeman | Two and a Half Men | TV sitcom | CBS | |
| Dr. Martin Dysart | Equus | play | Peter Shaffer | |
| Dr. Malcolm Crowe | The Sixth Sense | film | Barry Mendel Productions | Bruce Willis |
| Major Sanderson | Catch-22 | novel | Joseph Heller | |
| Dr. Marvin Monroe | The Simpsons | TV cartoon series | Matt Groening (creator) | |
| Dr. Marlena Evans | Days of Our Lives | soap opera | NBC | Deidre Hall |
| Dr. Mellinger | "Minus One" | short story | J. G. Ballard | |
| Dr. Minerva | It's Kind of a Funny Story | film | Focus Features | Viola Davis |
| Dr. Murchison | Spellbound | film | United Artists | |
| Dr. Nate Getz | NCIS: Los Angeles | TV series | CBS | |
| Dr. Nathan R. Conrad | Don't Say a Word | film | Regency Enterprises | |
| Dr. Neven Bell | Monk | TV series | USA Network | |
| Dr. Niles Crane | Frasier | TV sitcom | NBC | David Hyde Pierce |
| Dr. Otto Scratchansniff | Animaniacs | TV cartoon series | Warner Bros. | Long John Baldry |
| Dr. Peter Silberman[a] | The Terminator
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines | films | Orion Pictures | Earl Boen |
| Dr. Paul Weston | In Treatment (American TV series) | TV series | HBO | Gabriel Byrne |
| Professor Plum | Clue | film | Paramount Pictures | Christopher Lloyd |
| Dr. Richard Greville | Running Wild | novella | J.G. Ballard | |
| Dr. Rachel Armstrong | Home and Away | soap opera | Alan Bateman | Amy Mathews |
| Dr. Rosen | A Beautiful Mind | film | Universal Pictures | Christopher Plummer |
| Dr. Sara Iijima | Private Psycho Lesson | TV series | U-Jin (creator) | |
| Dr. Sidney Freedman | M*A*S*H | TV series | Larry Gelbart (creator) | |
| Dr. Stanley Keyworth | The West Wing | TV series | Aaron Sorkin (creator) | Adam Arkin |
| Dr. Tobias Fünke | Arrested Development | TV sitcom | Fox Broadcasting | David Cross |
| Dr. Tyrone Berger | Ordinary People | film | Paramount | Judd Hirsch |
| Dr. Victor Stephanson | What a Way to Go! | film | 20th Century Fox | |
| Dr. Victoria Siebert | Side Effects | film | Open Road Films | Catherine Zeta-Jones |
| Dr. Violet Turner | Private Practice | TV series | ABC | |
| Dr. Will Zimmerman | Sanctuary | TV series | Syfy | Robin Dunne |
| Dr. William Haber | The Lathe of Heaven | novel | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| Dr. Zachary Smith | Lost in Space | TV series | CBS | |
| Zack Busner | The Book of Dave | novel | Will Self | |
| Dr. James Whitman | The Psychiatrist | TV series | NBC | |
| Dr. Bernard Altman | The Psychiatrist | TV series | NBC | |
| Dr. Kathryn Railly | 12 Monkeys | film | Universal Studios | Madeleine Stowe |
| Dr. Katharine Wyatt | Grey's Anatomy | TV series | ABC | Amy Madigan |
| Dr. Fletcher | 12 Monkeys | film | Universal Studios | Frank Gorshin |
| Dr. Matt Lincoln | Matt Lincoln | TV series | ABC | |
| Dr. Molly Clock | Scrubs | TV series | NBC | Heather Graham |
| Dr. Sara Lynch | Conversations with the Devil | novel | Jeff Rovin | |
| Dr. Samuel Heller | Desperate Housewives | TV series | ABC | Stephen Spinella |
| Dr. Hannibal Lecter | The Silence of the Lambs and sequels | film | Universal Studios | |
| Dr. Robert (Bob) Hartley | The Bob Newhart Show | TV series | CBS | |
| R. Lars Porsena | Red Orc's Rage | novel | Philip Jose Farmer |
| Dr. Emil Skoda | Law & Order
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | TV series | NBC | J. K. Simmons |
| Dr. Sonia Wick | Girl, Interrupted | film | Columbia Pictures | Vanessa Redgrave |
| Dr. Harleen Frances Quinzel | various | various | DC Comics/DC Entertainment/DC Films | various |
| Dr. Helen Hartramph | Black Box | TV series | ABC | Vanessa Redgrave |
| Dr. Rintarō Hino | Dr. Rintarō | TV series | NTV | Masato Sakai |
| Dr. Ji Hae-soo | It's Okay, That's Love | TV series | SBS TV | Gong Hyo-jin |
| Dr. Lin Yi Chun | The World Between Us | TV series | PTS | Shih Ming Shuai |