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List of satirists below - writers, cartoonists and others known for their involvement in satire - humorous social criticism.
Early Satirists
- Aesop (c. 620 to 560 BC) - Fables
- Aristophanes (c.448 BC to 380 BC) - Lysistrata, The Frogs
- Leviticus
- Lucilius (c.180 BC to 103 BC)
- Horace (65 BC to 8 BC)
- Ovid (43 BC to 17 AD) - The Art of Love
- Petronius (c. 27 to 66 AD) - The Satyricon
- Juvenal (c. A.D. 55-140) - 16 Satires
- Apuleius (c. 123 to 180 AD) - The Golden Ass
- The Thousand and One Nights - (9th century)
Middle Satirists
- Chaucer (c. 1343 – 1400)
- Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 to 1375) - The Decameron
- Erasmus (1466 to 1536) - The Praise of Folly
- François Rabelais (c. 1493 to 1553)
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 to 1616) - Don Quixote
- John Dryden (1631 to 1700)
- Jonathan Swift (1667 to 1745) - Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal
- Alexander Pope (1688 to 1744)
- Voltaire (1694 to 1778) - Candide
- Laurence Sterne (1713 to 1768) - Tristram Shandy
- Molière (1622 – 1673)
- Henry Fielding (1707 – 1754)
- James Beresford (1764 - 1840) The Miseries of Human Life
- James Bramston(1694 - 1744)
- Samuel "Hudibras" Butler (1612–1680)
- François Rabelais (1494 - 1553)
- Voltaire (1694 – 1778)
- Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
Modern Satirists (born 1800-1900)
- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
- Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914?)
- Samuel "Erewhon" Butler (1835 - 1902)
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- Jaroslav Hasek (Czech)
- Aldous Huxley (UK)
- Alfred Jarry (French)
- H.L. Mencken (US)
- H.H. Munro aka *Saki (1870 to 1916) (UK)
- Thomas Nast (1840 – 1902)
- Will Rogers (1879 to 1935) (US)
- Mark Twain (1835 to 1910)
- Oscar Wilde (1854 to 1900)
- P. G. Wodehouse (UK)
Modern Satirists (born 1900-1930)
- Ray Bradbury (US)
- William Burroughs (US)
- Dario Fo (Italy)
- Günter Grass (1927-) - The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse (German)
- Joseph Heller (US)
- Tom Lehrer (US)
- Flannery O'Connor (US)
- George Orwell (1903-1950) - Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four.
- C. Northcote Parkinson (UK)
- Anna Russell (UK)
- Gore Vidal (US)
- Kurt Vonnegut (US)
- Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) (UK)
Modern Satirists (born 1930-1960)
- Douglas Adams (UK)
- Scott Adams (US)
- Woody Allen (US)
- Steve Bell (UK)
- Alan Bennett (UK)
- Eleanor Bron (UK)
- Peter Cook (UK)
- Wayne Federman (US)
- Al Franken (US)
- David Frost (UK)
- Christopher Guest (US) - "This is Spinal Tap", "Waiting for Guffman", etc
- Matt Groening (US)
- Carl Hiaasen (1953 - ?) - Tourist Season, Double Whammy, Basket Case, Skinny Dip, et al.'' (US)
- Gary Larson (US)
- Jonathan Meades (UK)
- Jonathan Miller (UK)
- Dudley Moore (UK)
- Michael Moore - Bowling for Columbine
- Terry Pratchett (UK)
- Ziad Rahbani (Lebanon)
- Mordecai Richler (Canada)
- David Sedaris (US)
- "Weird Al" Yankovic (US)
- Frank Zappa (US)
- Garry Trudeau (US)
- Robert Zubrin (US)
- Josh Flannery {Canada}
Modern Satirists (born 1960-present)
- Michael "Atters" Attree (UK)
- Charlie Brooker - Nathan Barley
- Dave Chappelle (US)
- Stephen Colbert - The Colbert Report
- John Cann (At Large)
- Scott Dikkers (US)
- Sabina Guzzanti (Italy)
- Bill Hicks (US)
- Mike Judge (US)
- Daniele Luttazzi (Italy)
- Aaron McGruder (US)
- Lisa Kennedy Montgomery (US)
- Chris Morris - Brass Eye, Nathan Barley
- The Moustache Brothers (Mandalay, Myanmar)
- Ebrahim Nabavi (Iran)
- Kioumars Saberi Foumani (Iran)
- Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
- Trey Parker - South Park
- Amy Sedaris (US)
- Pauly Shore (US)
- Victor Lewis-Smith - TV Offal
- Matt Stone - South Park
- Orl Unho (US)
- Stoney Burke (US)
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