John Doe

English

Noun

John Doe (plural John Does)

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

Translations

any unknown or anonymous male person

• Arabic: فلان (ar) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 佚名 (cmn)

• Esperanto: Ajnulo (eo)
• Finnish: Matti Meikäläinen (fi)
• French: Tartempion (fr) m, Machin (fr) m, Machine (fr) f, Jean Dupont (fr) m, Untel (fr) m, Unetelle (fr) f
• German: Otto Normalverbraucher (de)
• Hebrew: פלוני (he) m from Plony Almony - an unknown person in the biblical book of Ruth.

• Icelandic: Jón Jónsson (is) m
• Macedonian: Петар Петровски (mk) (Pétar Pétrovski) m
• Norwegian: Ola Nordmann (no)
• Portuguese: Fulano (pt) m
• Russian: имярек (ru) (imjarek) m
• Serbo-Croatian: (literally means "Unknown Someone") Nepoznati Netko (sh)
• Spanish: Fulano (es) m, Mengano (es) m, Zutano (es) m
• Yiddish: מוישה גרויס (yi) m Moishe Gross (Big Moses) - a small man with a big name.

See also

• Jane Doe
• so-and-so, what's-his-name, you-know-who