Private Eye contributors

The list Private Eye contributors includes Barry Humphries, Peter Cook, Gerald Scarfe, John Wells and Ian Hislop. The list consists of 52 members.

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Private Eye

British satirical and current affairs magazine

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Jane Asher

English actress and author

Overview: Jane Asher (born 5 April 1946) is an English actress, author and entrepreneur. She achieved early fame as a child actress and has worked extensively in film and TV throughout her career.

Date of birth: 5 April 1946

Age: 79

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

Partner: Gerald Scarfe (Married)

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20th-century English women writers 737T

21st-century English women 856T

20th-century English women 1,267T
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Peter Cook

British actor

Overview: Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English satirist and comedic actor. He was a leading figure of the British satire boom of the 1960s, and he was associated with the anti-es ...

Date of birth: 17 November 1937

Date of death: 9 January 1995

Age: 57 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Comic

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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British male television writers 435T

Peter Cook 4T

English social commentators 57T
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Gerald Scarfe

English cartoonist, illustrator, animator (born 1936)

Overview: Gerald Anthony Scarfe, CBE, RDI (born 1 June 1936) is an English cartoonist and illustrator. He has worked as editorial cartoonist for The Sunday Times and illustrator for The New Yorker.

Date of birth: 1 June 1936

Age: 88

Nationality: British

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Male

Partner: Jane Asher (Married)

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British surrealist artists 65T

British animated film directors 84T

British stamp designers 32T
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Barry Humphries

Australian comedian (1934–2023)

Overview: John Barry Humphries AO CBE (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) was an Australian comedian, actor, author and satirist. He was best known for writing and playing his stage and television characters Dame ...

Date of birth: 17 February 1934

Date of death: 22 April 2023

Age: 89 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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People from Camberwell, Victoria 29T

2023 deaths 6,226T

Male actors of English descent 380T
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John Wells

British actor and satirist (1936–1998)

Overview: John Campbell Wells (17 November 1936 – 11 January 1998) was an English actor, writer and satirist.

Date of birth: 17 November 1936

Date of death: 11 January 1998

Age: 61 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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20th-century English male writers 1,474T

English male writers 2,730T

Male actors from Kent 184T
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Ian Hislop

British, Journalist

Overview: Ian David Hislop (born 13 July 1960) is a British journalist, satirist, writer, broadcaster, and editor of the magazine Private Eye. He has appeared on many radio and television programmes, and has been ...

Date of birth: 13 July 1960

Age: 64

Nationality: British

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

Partner: Victoria Hislop (Married)

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Privately educated journalists 46T

Mass media people from Swansea 20T

British people of Jersey descent 3T
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Nigel Dempster

British writer (1941–2007)

Overview: Nigel Richard Patton Dempster (1 November 1941 in Calcutta, India – 12 July 2007 in Ham, Surrey) was a British journalist, author, broadcaster and diarist. Best known for his celebrity gossip columns in ...

Date of birth: 1 November 1941

Date of death: 12 July 2007

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Male

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British male journalists 1,246T

Daily Express people 59T

People educated at Sherborne School 276T
8.

William Rushton

English cartoonist and comedian (1937–1996)

Overview: William George Rushton (18 August 1937 – 11 December 1996) was an English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer who co-founded the satirical magazine Private Eye.

Date of birth: 18 August 1937

Date of death: 11 December 1996

Age: 59 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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20th-century British comedians 383T

English male voice actors 594T

20th-century English male actors 2,151T
9.

Auberon Waugh

Author

Overview: Auberon Alexander Waugh (17 November 1939 – 16 January 2001) was an English journalist and novelist, and eldest son of the novelist Evelyn Waugh. He was widely known by his nickname "Bron".

Date of birth: 17 November 1939

Date of death: 16 January 2001

Age: 61 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Author

Gender: Male

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New Statesman people 36T

Onslow family 50T

English male novelists 1,096T
10.

John Betjeman

Poet

Overview: Sir John Betjeman CBE (28 August 1906 – 19 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster. He was Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death. He was a founding member of the Victorian Society ...

Date of birth: 28 August 1906

Date of death: 19 May 1984

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: Dutch

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Male

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20th-century English male writers 1,328T

People educated at Byron House School 7T

20th-century British male writers 1,407T
11.

Victor Lewis-Smith

British producer and critic (1957–2022)

Overview: Victor Lewis-Smith (died 10 December 2022) was a British film, television and radio producer, a television and restaurant critic, a satirist and newspaper columnist. He is executive producer of the ITV1 ...

Date of birth: 12 May 1959

Date of death: 10 December 2022

Age: 63 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Comedian

Gender: Male

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2022 deaths 8,175T

British restaurant critics 28T

British male journalists 1,321T
12.

Paul Foot

British journalist

Overview: Paul Mackintosh Foot (8 November 1937 – 18 July 2004) was a British investigative journalist, political campaigner, author, and long-time member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP).

Date of birth: 8 November 1937

Date of death: 18 July 2004

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Male

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Foot family 9T

21st-century British journalists 86T

20th-century British journalists 127T
13.

Christopher Logue

English poet (1926–2011)

Overview: Christopher Logue, CBE (23 November 1926 – 2 December 2011) was an English poet associated with the British Poetry Revival, and a pacifist.

Date of birth: 23 November 1926

Date of death: 2 December 2011

Age: 85 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Screenwriter

Gender: Male

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21st-century English male writers 486T

20th-century English male writers 1,328T

Translators of Homer 101T
14.

Ralph Steadman

British cartoonist

Overview: Ralph Idris Steadman (born 15 May 1936) is a British illustrator best known for his collaboration and friendship with the American writer Hunter S. Thompson. Steadman is renowned for his political and ...

Date of birth: 15 May 1936

Age: 89

Nationality: British

Occupation: Designer

Gender: Male

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Welsh editorial cartoonists 5T

British stamp designers 32T

Welsh cartoonists 7T
15.

Phil Hammond

British General Practitioner, broadcaster, and comedian

Overview: Philip James Hammond (born 1 January 1962) is a physician, broadcaster, comedian and commentator on health issues in the United Kingdom. He is best known for his humorous commentary on the National Health ...

Date of birth: 1 January 1962

Age: 63

Nationality: British

Occupation: Comedian

Gender: Male

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British general practitioners 78T

People educated at Marlborough College 651T

21st-century English medical doctors 96T
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Barbara Conway (journalist)

investigative journalist

Overview: Barbara Anne Conway (30 January 1952 – 5 May 1991) was a British financial journalist, author and broadcaster.

Date of birth: 30 January 1952

Date of death: 5 May 1991

Age: 39 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Female

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Pseudonymous women writers 644T

20th-century British women writers 1,321T

Jewish non-fiction writers 45T
17.

Gavin Stamp

British architectural historian

Overview: Gavin Mark Stamp (15 March 1948 – 30 December 2017) was a British writer, television presenter and architectural historian.

Date of birth: 15 March 1948

Date of death: 30 December 2017

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Historian

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2017 deaths 9,371T

People educated at Dulwich College 394T

British architecture writers 44T
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George Worsley Adamson

Artist

Overview: George Worsley Adamson, RE, MCSD (7 February 1913 – 5 March 2005) was a book illustrator, writer, and cartoonist, who held American and British dual citizenship from 1931.

Date of birth: 1913

Date of death: 5 March 2005

Age: 91 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Cartoonist

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Writers from the Bronx 87T

American emigrants to England 337T

British children's book illustrators 224T
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Candida Lycett Green

British writer

Overview: Candida Rose Lycett Green (née Betjeman; 22 September 1942 – 19 August 2014) was a British author who wrote sixteen books including English Cottages, Goodbye London, The Perfect English House, Over ...

Date of birth: 1942

Date of death: 19 August 2014

Age: 72 (age at death)

Nationality: Irish

Occupation: Journalist

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2014 deaths 9,515T

20th-century British novelists 1,004T

People educated at Heathfield School, Ascot 45T
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Ray Lowry

English cartoonist, illustrator and satirist (1944-2008)

Overview: Ray Lowry (28 August 1944 – 14 October 2008) was an English cartoonist, illustrator and satirist, possessing a highly distinctive style and wit. He contributed to The Guardian, Private Eye, Punch, Tatler ...

Date of birth: 28 August 1944

Date of death: 14 October 2008

Age: 64 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Comic

Gender: Male

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English male painters 2,044T

21st-century English painters 438T

20th-century English painters 1,506T