Hilaire Belloc

Hilaire Belloc

male, deceased (1953)
Humorouspoet, President of the Oxford Union, poet, writer, World War I poet, Catholic
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. Recent biographies of Belloc h...
Edward Lear

Edward Lear

male, deceased (1888)
Humorouspoet, literary nonsense, Writer-illustrator, Victorian poetry, asthma, From Highgate…poet
Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator and writer known for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a...
Spike Milligan

Spike Milligan

male, deceased (2002)
Honorary British knighthoods, Humorouspoet, poet, guitar, trumpet, piano
Terence Alan Milligan KBE (16 April 1918-27 February 2002), known as Spike Milligan, was an Irish writer, artist, musician, humanitarian, comedian,...

Harry Graham

male, deceased (1936)
Jocelyn Henry Clive 'Harry' Graham, operetta, coldstream guard, English, Humorouspoet, The Maid of the Mountains…poet
Jocelyn Henry Clive 'Harry' Graham (1874-1936) was an English writer of humorous verse in a tradition of grotesquerie and black humor also...

Matt Harvey

male
poet, performance poet, mind, From Totnes, South West, Totnes…Humorouspoet
Matt Harvey is a British humourist and performance poet who has published a number of books and makes regular contributions to radio broadcasts. He...
Dixon Lanier Merritt

Dixon Lanier Merritt

male
Nashville, poet, ornithology, Humorist, limerick, American…Humorouspoet
Dixon Lanier Merritt (1879 - 1972) was a poet and humorist. He was a newspaper editor for the "Tennessean", Nashville's morning paper, and...

Patrick Barrington 11th Viscount Barrington

male, deceased (1990)
Oxford University, poet, eton college, Anglo-irish, Old Etonian, artist…Humorouspoet
Patrick William Daines Barrington, 11th Viscount Barrington of Ardglass (born 29 October, 1908; died 6 April, 1990) was an Anglo-Irish peer and a...

Lucius Afranius

male
Humorouspoet, Silver Age Latin author, Roman Republic, Life, comedy, roman…Roman era poet, poet
Lucius Afranius (RE 5), a Roman comic poet, who lived in the later second century BC. His comedies, of the genre known as fabulae togatae, chiefly...
Mametveli Kemine

Mametveli Kemine

male, deceased (1840)
islam, islamic, bukhara, turkmen, turkmenistan, Turkmen poet…Humorouspoet
Mametveli Kemine (c. 1770 - c. 1840) was a Turkmenistani satirical poet whose works have become a key part of Turkmen literature. Born in Seraks,...