• Avril Angers
  '''Florence Avril Angers''' (18 April 1918 &ndash; 9 November 2005) was an English stand-up comedian and actress.<ref name="Avril Angers">{{cite web|url=https * ''[[w:Women Without Men (1956 film)|Women Without Men]]'' (1956) – Bessie
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• Jeannie Carson
  * 1958 – ''[[Little Women#Television|Little Women]]''<ref name="Margaret O'Brien">{{cite book|first=Allan R.|last=Ellenberger [[Category:English women comedians]]
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• Florence Desmond
  ...y 1993), better known by her [[stage name]] '''Florence Desmond''', was an English actress, [[comedian]] and [[impersonator]]. [[Category:English women comedians]]
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• Jimmy Jewel
  ...ieved 23 May 2013)</ref> known professionally as '''Jimmy Jewel''', was an English comedian and actor whose long career in stage, radio, television and film p ...bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6afe13a5 |title=The Man Who Had Power over Women (1970) |publisher=BFI |accessdate=2017-03-19}}</ref> Jewel then starred in
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• Suzette Tarri
  ...ash; 10 October 1955), known by her stage name '''Suzette Tarri''', was an English comedian and singer, popular on radio as well as on stage in the 1930s and [[Category:20th-century English comedians]]
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• Barry Took
  {{short description|English comedian}} '''Barry Took''' (19 June 1928{{snd}}31 March 2002) was an English writer, television presenter and comedian. His decade-and-a-half writing pa
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• Bernard Manning
  | subject = [[Ethnicity]], [[women]], [[stereotypes]], [[minority group]]s ...ppers and Shunters Social Club]]'', ''[[The Comedians (1971 TV series)|The Comedians]]'', The Embassy Club
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• Carol Cleveland
  |1973 || ''[[Doctor in Charge]]'' || Nurse Dobbs || Episode: "Men Without Women" [[Category:English film actresses]]
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• Les Dawson
  '''Leslie Dawson Jr.''' (2 February 1931 – 10 June 1993) was an English comedian, actor, writer, and presenter, who is best remembered for his [[w: ...f his love for [[w:canonical|canonical]] figures in [[w:English literature|English literature]], in particular the 19th-century essayist [[w:Charles Lamb (wri
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• Marti Caine
  ...rn '''Lynne Denise Shepherd''' (26 January 1945 – 4 November 1995), was an English [[comedian]], actress, dancer, presenter, singer, and writer, who first cam [[Category:English women comedians]]
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• Jo Kendall
  While teaching English and drama at a state secondary school for girls at [[Cambridge|Cambridge]], [[Category:20th-century English actresses]]
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• Hylda Baker
  {{short description|English comedian and actress}} '''Hylda Baker''' (4 February 1905 &ndash; 1 May 1986) was an English [[w:comedian|comedian]], actress and [[w:music hall|music hall]] performer.
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• Dick Emery
  {{Short description|English comedian and actor}} ...d Gilbert Emery''' (19 February 1915{{spaced ndash}}2 January 1983) was an English [[comedian]] and actor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9
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• Renée Houston
  {{Use British English|date=September 2015}} ...in half a dozen 1958 broadcasts (but the role was quickly recast to use an English actress instead), and was a regular guest on radio panel show ''[[Petticoat
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• Damaris Hayman
  '''Damaris Ann Kennedy Hayman''' (16 June 1929 – 3 June 2021) was an English actress,<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/ ...study for [[Margaret Rutherford]], who was cast as Lady Bracknell. The two women became very close and Hayman supported Rutherford in her last years.<ref>{{
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• Anna Russell
  ...Russell-Brown'''; 27 December 1911{{spaced ndash}}18 October 2006) was an English–Canadian singer and comedian. She gave many concerts in which she sang an ...he toured throughout North America, Britain, Australia and the rest of the English-speaking world.
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• Caroline Aherne
  {{short description|English actress, comedian and writer (1963–2016)}} ...don|title=findmypast.co.uk}}</ref> (24 December 1963 – 2 July 2016) was an English actress, comedian and writer. She was best known for performing as the acer
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• Helen Fraser (actress)
  ...en Fraser''' (born '''Helen Margaret Stronach'''; born 15 June 1942) is an English actress, who has appeared in many television series since the early 1960s.< ...levision viewers for her long-running role in the [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] women's prison drama ''[[Bad Girls (TV series)|Bad Girls]]'' as unpleasant prison
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• Charlie Drake
  ...5 – 23 December 2006), known professionally as '''Charlie Drake''', was an English comedian, actor, writer and singer. ...and because in his television work he preferred appearing with big-busted women, the catchphrase was born.
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• Jack Hulbert
  ...ugust 2015}}</ref><ref>Hartley, 2013, ''A Historical Dictionary of British Women.'' p. 120</ref> * Hartley, Cathy. (2013). ''A Historical Dictionary of British Women''. Routledge
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