Who or what is John Doe?

Answer 1

It’s the name given to anyone who’s real name or identity is not know. The female counterpart is Jane Doe.

Answer 2

John Doe is an unnamed male defendant or victim. The name has come to be used for any nameless person and there is a tv show called John Doe about a man who knows everything except who and what he is.

Answer 3

A John or Jane Doe is an unidentified person who can not tell anyone their identity due to either being A dead, B unconscious, or C amnesia. It is the name they call all unclaimed persons.

Answer 4

Yes, it is an unidentified person. They are given numbers. And are entered
into the NCIC unid. So, police can cross check with missing persons.
Some does are given names like, Precious Doe, Princess Doe, Boy in the
Box, Mr. Bones. Etc.

Answer 5

John Doe is a name used mostly by the police to call someone they don't know who he is or his identity is intendet to be anonymus, the female form is Jane Doe, and when it happens with a small child he/she is reffered as Baby Doe.

Answer 6

Yes it is an unidentified man.

But he was also a character on the show "John Doe"

http://www.tv.com/john-doe/show/9049/summary.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0320038/

It was canceled after one season though :(

Answer 7

a man, unidentified, without past present information/history, without family or friends, could be anyone, an annonymous

Answer 8

a name given to a deceased body that no one can identify

Answer 9

thats what they call an unidentified corpse