The Doctor
Sign in to saveAlso known as Doctor Who, Dr. Who, Dr Who, John Smith, Last of the Time Lords, The Oncoming Storm, Doctor
fictional character from the television series Doctor Who
Key facts
- First appearance
- An Unearthly Child (1963)
- Created by
- Sydney Newman
- Other actors
- Richard Hurndall (1983) John Hurt (2013) David Bradley (2017, 2022) Jo Martin (2020–2022, 2025)
- Species
- Time Lord
- Spouse
- Elizabeth I River Song
- Children
- Jenny (daughter)
- Relatives
- Susan Foreman (granddaughter) Tecteun (adoptive parent)
- Home planet
- Gallifrey
- Main incarnations
- First Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh Eighth Ninth Tenth Eleventh Twelfth Thirteenth Fourteenth Fifteenth
- Other incarnations
- The Valeyard War Doctor Fugitive Doctor
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Has part
- Twelfth Doctor
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Gallifrey
- Place of birth
- Gallifrey
- Spouse
- River Song
- Occupation
- president
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Creator
- Sydney Newman
- Performer
- Ncuti Gatwa
- Conflict
- Time War
- Image
- Ncuti Gatwa 3 cropped.png
Show 10 more facts
- enemy
- Cyberman
- from narrative universe
- Whoniverse
- vehicle normally used
- TARDIS
- topic has template
- Template:Infobox Doctor Who doctor
- superhuman feature or ability
- regeneration
- relative
- Susan Foreman
- owner of
- TARDIS
- Commons category
- Doctor Who Doctors
- different from
- Doktor
- home world
- Gallifrey
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Encyclopedic overview
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The Doctor, sometimes known as Doctor Who, is the protagonist of the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. An extraterrestrial Time Lord, the Doctor travels the universe in a time travelling spaceship called the TARDIS, often with companions. Since the show's inception in 1963, the character has been portrayed by fourteen lead actors. The transition to each succeeding actor is explained within the show's narrative through the plot device of regeneration, a biological function of Time Lords that allows a change of cellular structure and appearance with recovery following a mortal injury.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Doctor” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.