What is the Doctor's actual age?

The "900" discrepancy
Before the Eleventh Doctor's 200-year farewell tour between TV: The God Complex and Closing Time, the writers of the 2005 revival of the series explicitly described the Doctor as around 900 years old, despite contrary statements on TV and expanded media.
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How old is the Doctor when he meets Rose?

Rose Marion Tyler, knighted Dame Rose of the Powell Estate, (TV: Tooth and Claw, PROSE: Meet Rose) was a companion of the Ninth and Tenth Doctors. When the Ninth Doctor first met her in 2005, Rose was a nineteen-year-old living on a London council estate who had left school with little educational achievement.
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Is the Doctor billions of years old?

As Gallifrey's greatest leader, and a near-immortal at that, Rassilon is probably the most reliable source on this point, and in "The End of Time Part 2," he says, "A billion years of Time Lord history riding on our backs." Thus, as a result of the Timeless Child retcon, canonically the Doctor is a little over a ...
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How old is the Doctor after Heaven Sent?

Heaven Sent sees the Doctor trapped in a Gallifreyan confession dial, with the following episode establishing that he was locked inside for over 4-and-a-half billion years.
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How old is the 14th Doctor?

Ncuti Gatwa will take over from Jodie Whittaker as the Time Lord in Doctor Who, the BBC has announced. The 29-year-old will become the 14th Doctor on the popular BBC show after Whittaker announced last July she would be leaving the role.
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How old is the 10th Doctor?

In “Aliens of London,” this Doctor tells Rose that he's 900-years-old. This might be only an estimation, but the 10th Doctor later claims to be 903 in “Voyage of the Damned.”
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What is the Doctor's real name?

John Smith. The Doctor's most common alias (apart from the Doctor, obviously), this is his standard pseudonym on Earth.
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Why is the 12th Doctor old?

This is the main reason the Doctor looks old relative to his previous several incarnations. It comes along with the face. Of course, out-of-universe, Peter Capaldi is older when he plays the 12th Doctor than when he played Lobus Caecilius.
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How old was the 9th Doctor?

He claimed to be 900 years old in the episode "Aliens of London." Based on the given age of the War Doctor, this means that the Ninth Doctor spent roughly 100 years traveling on his own before he met Rose Tyler in "Rose."
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What age is River Song?

River Song was old, having served twelve thousand consecutive life sentences. As Melody Pond, she was a little girl in 1969 (or 1970) when she first "died" and regenerated. She was around 40 when she "died" again, this time regenerating into River Song.
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Is Clara the Doctor's daughter?

Clara is the future child of the Doctor and River who's had her memory erased. The two Time Lords must be up to something on their nights away from River's prison cell.
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Who was the oldest Doctor Who?

Richard Hurndall (the First Doctor in The Five Doctors) would have been 72. And Jo Martin, who played the fugitive Doctor in Fugitive of the Judoon, doesn't seem to have her birthday publicly listed.
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Who will be the 14th Doctor?

Doctor Who casts Sex Education's Ncuti Gatwa as 14th Doctor - Polygon.
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How old is the Second Doctor?

As on screen, the Second Doctor spent about three years in the TARDIS. David Tennant's Doctor stated categorically that he was 903 years old (whilst on board the Starship Titanic in 'Voyage of the Damned').
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Which Doctor was the longest?

As of 25 December 2018, official television productions have depicted fourteen distinct incarnations of the Doctor. The longest-lasting on-screen incarnation is the Fourth Doctor, played by Tom Baker for seven years.
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How long do Time Lords live?

Well, the way I see it, at least from the point of view as it's presented, is each timelord life gets around about 80-100 years, so they age normally, if a timelord regenerates due to injury (as every doctor bar Hartnell) has, the "extra years" stack up into the next regeneration, so they could potentially live twice ...
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Is the 12th doctor in love with Clara?

Both of them had ties to each other since their childhoods ⁠— thanks to time travel ⁠— and their relationship blossomed as she was the companion of his eleventh and twelfth incarnations. Soon enough, it became clear that Clara and the Doctor were most definitely in love with each other, despite not becoming lovers.
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What is the Doctor's IQ?

What is the average IQ for a doctor? According to research studies, the average IQ for medical doctors is around 120 to 125. It can vary between physicians and nurses. Generally, doctors can also score on IQ tests above 85, and top doctors can score over 105.
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Why can't Doctor Who say his name?

Long story short: the Doctor lies. Recently, fans have hypothesized that the reason why the Doctor never speaks their own name is for their own safety. And the hypothesis also suggests that the only occasion for which a Time Lord would reveal their name is at the moment of their final death.
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What is the Doctor's Gallifreyan name?

Is Theta Sigma the Doctor's real name? Theta Sigma was the Doctor's unique nickname when he was studying at the Time Lord Academy on Gallifrey. Although this identified the Doctor from all the other Time Lords at the academy, the Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) dismisses it as just a nickname in The Happiness Patrol.
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Who is the youngest Doctor Who?

Matt Smith became the youngest ever actor (aged 26) to play the doctor when he took on the role in 2010.
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