Dr. John Watson

The loyal friend and biographer of consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, John Watson was also a war hero and physician. The name is of great importance in early Christianity: it was borne by John the Baptist, by one of Christ’s disciples, John the Apostle, and by the author of the fourth gospel, John the Evangelist. The name was borne by many saints and by twenty-three popes. It was also a royal name, being borne by eight Byzantine emperors and by kings of Hungary, Poland, Portugal, France, and elsewhere.