Doc Paskowitz

Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz (3 March 1921 to 10 November 2014) was an American surfer and physician. He gave up practising medicine as a living and chose instead to become a professional surfer, and he is remembered as much for his family as for his own riding. In 1972 he founded a surf camp run by his family, where campers could live alongside and surf with members of the Paskowitz family, and the camp made the household a fixture of American surf culture. He and his family have been referred to as the "First Family of Surfing". This entry rests on the lead section of his English Wikipedia article, which gives his dates, his two careers, the founding of the camp and the family nickname.