English satirists

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. was an English comic actor, filmmaker, film editor and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is considered one of the film industry's most important figures. His career spanned more than 75 years, from his childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both accolade and controversy.

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.

English trader, writer, and journalist (1660–1731)

British science fiction writer and humorist (1952–2001)

English humorist (1859-1927)

English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist (1697-1764)

British comedian and actor

Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric (1713–1768)

Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist, and film director. He has never publicly confirmed his identity. Active since the 1990s, his satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stencilling technique. His works of political and social commentary have appeared on streets, walls, and bridges throughout the world. His work grew out of the Bristol underground scene, which involved collaborations between artists and musicians. Banksy was inspired by the graffiti artist and musician Robert Del Naja, also kn

British writer and journalist (1903–1966)

English cleric and cardinal (1801–1890)

British comedian

British novelist (1930–2009)

British-American comedian and television host

British writer (1670-1729)

British actor, comedian, composer and musician (1935–2002)

English novelist and dramatist (1775–1818)

Anglo-Dutch writer and physician (1670-1733)

English writer (1935–2025)

British author, actor, comedian and director (1934–1982)

English actor and comedian

British naval historian (1909–1993)

English children's writer

British television host, journalist, comedian and writer (1939–2013)

English writer (1872-1956)

English playwright (1584–1616)

English playwright and poet

English artist and caricaturist (1757–1827)

English actor, author, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1934)

British caricaturist and book illustrator; (1792-1878)

British caricaturist and printmaker (1756-1815)

English Elizabethan pamphleteer and poet

English satirical novelist (1928-2013)

British actor, playwright, author and director (born 1937)

English actor, director, and writer

English priest and theologian (1888–1957)

English writer and journalist (born 1961)

British actor, satirist, writer and comedian (1937-1995)

British author (1913–1991)

English author and academic (1932–2000)

journalist, broadcaster and writer from England

English writer 1575?-1634

British dramatist

British director, writer, and actor

British comedian and actor

English actor, poet, playwright (c. 1667/70 – 1723)

British theatre director (1934-2019)

stand-up comedian, writer, and Internet personality

British actor and writer

British artist and satirical cartoonist (1920-2011)

British stage, film and television actress and author

British writer (1929–2009)

British bishop and writer (1574-1656)

English comedian and actor (1940-2020)

Israeli-born British jazz musician and author

English writer

English comedian, actor, film director & astronomer (1888-1949)

British classical scholar (1874–1943)

British caricaturist and illustrator (1817–1864)

British satirist, writer, director, actor, voice actor and producer