English

Proper noun
John Doe

1. A fictitious name used in the legal documents for an unknown or anonymous male person.
2. Any unknown or anonymous male person.

#:1885: i.e. "to Tom, Dick or Harry:" the names like John Doe and Richard Roe are used indefinitely in Arab. — The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. 4 Footnote 5, Richard Burton

See also
Jane Doe

Category:Metasyntactic words

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