# Top 40 doctors **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [August 4, 2021, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-40-doctors/948046 "2021-08-04T19:55:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2021, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-40-doctors/948046/1 "2021-08-04T19:55:41Z")
[The Offspring’s drummer was fired because he wouldn’t get vaccinated.](https://ultimateclassicrock.com/offspring-drummer-unvaccinated/) According to him he has underlying issues but apparently couldn’t convince his boss, Doctor of Molecular Biology Dexter Howland, of this. There’s the guy in Queen, Dr. May and another British guy who I cannot remember his name and knew him as a science-talker in English science TV shows before I found out he was a two hit wonder. If someone can figure out who I’m talking about, I’d be very appreciative. Are there any other Dr. Top40s out there? Honorary degrees don’t count! ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2021, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-40-doctors/948046/2 "2021-08-04T20:26:12Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > another British guy who I cannot remember his name Brian Cox? > **[Brian Cox (physicist)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Cox_(physicist))** > > Brian Edward Cox CBE FRS (born 3 March 1968) is an English physicist and musician who is a professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester and The Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science. He is best known to the public as the presenter of science programmes, especially BBC Radio 4’s The Infinite Monkey Cage and the Wonders of... series and for popular science books, such as Why Does E=mc²? and The Quantum Univer Cox has be... ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2021, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-40-doctors/948046/3 "2021-08-04T20:28:50Z")
YES! Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2021, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-40-doctors/948046/4 "2021-08-04T20:29:25Z")
[Greg Graffin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Graffin), vocalist for punk band Bad Religion, has a PhD in zoology, and has taught at UCLA and Cornell. [Sterling Morrison](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_Morrison), late guitarist for the Velvet Underground, had a PhD in Medieval Literature. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2021, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-40-doctors/948046/5 "2021-08-04T20:30:47Z")
This list also includes actors and other artists, but there are several Dr. Top40s on the list. > **[List of artists and entertainers with advanced degrees](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artists_and_entertainers_with_advanced_degrees)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > This is a list of artists and entertainers with advanced degrees (PhDs and other academic degrees leading to the title of Doctor). Excluded are honorary degrees. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2021, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-40-doctors/948046/6 "2021-08-04T20:32:02Z")
I like the “Excluded are honorary degrees”. Wiki agrees with me that they don’t count. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2021, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-40-doctors/948046/7 "2021-08-04T20:33:58Z")
I got a near miss - Hank Wangford And The Lost Cowboys. Big plus - Hank is a medical doctor, a gynecologist if I remember correctly. Suffolk, England’s trail-blazing country star had some success, but no top 40 hit that I’m aware of. Here is the good doctor doing his thing: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/h8UvC5sAnHI/hqdefault.jpg "Hank Wangford. Cowboys stay on longer.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8UvC5sAnHI) j ETA - I meant to add the wiki page - here it is > **[Hank Wangford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Wangford)** > > Samuel Hutt, known by the stage name Hank Wangford (born 15 November 1940), is an English country and western songwriter. > "Hank is a good smoke screen. He can do things I can't do. He's my clown," says Dr. Hutt, who has been struggling to balance his musical and medical interests ever since medical school at Cambridge University. His 1960s practice in a drug-addiction centre brought him into contact with a lot of rockers and wide renown as London's long-haired, rock-and-roll doctor, and later... ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2021, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-40-doctors/948046/8 "2021-08-04T20:59:34Z")
I assume the degrees of Dr. Demento, Dr. Dre, Dr. Hook, and Dr. John the Night Tripper are honorary, though. ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-40-doctors/948046/9 "2021-08-05T05:56:30Z")
Ferocious Australian band Radio Birdman had guitarist [Deniz Tek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniz_Tek), who is an emergency medicine doctor and ex Flight Surgeon. If you allow Dr Hook then you may as well include [these guys](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ph.D._(band)). ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-40-doctors/948046/10 "2021-08-05T06:01:25Z")
I wish we could get Greg in political office although he absolutely refuses … ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-40-doctors/948046/11 "2021-08-05T11:23:13Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > I assume the degrees of **Dr. Demento** , Dr. Dre, Dr. Hook, and Dr. John the Night Tripper are honorary, though. [Not the Good Doctor’s.](http://magazine.ucla.edu/features/school_of_rock/index2.html) > Barret Hansen M.A. '67 has a master’s degree in folklore and ethnomusicology from UCLA. But rock history buffs know him better as **Dr. Demento** , the off-the-wall disc jockey who’s been bringing listeners “mad music and crazy comedy” for almost 40 years, including launching the career, for better or worse, of “Weird” Al Yankovic. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-40-doctors/948046/12 "2021-08-05T14:03:28Z")
A master’s degree isn’t a doctorate. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-40-doctors/948046/13 "2021-08-05T15:30:10Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Dr. Hook As with [Hootie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hootie_%26_the_Blowfish), Dr. Hook doesn’t really exist.