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The following is a list of notable [[Stand-up comedy|stand-up comedian]]s by nationality.
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== Argentina ==
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* [[Tato Bores]]
* [[Antonio Gasalla]]
* [[Jorge Guinzburg]]
* [[Enrique Pinti]]
}}

== Australia ==
{{Main|List of Australian stand-up comedians}}
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*[[Wil Anderson]]
*[[Carl Barron]]
*[[Anh Do]]
*[[Randy Feltface]]
*[[Kitty Flanagan]]
*[[Chris Franklin]]
*[[Hannah Gadsby]]
*[[Peter Helliar]]
*[[Adam Hills]]
*[[Dave Hughes]]
*[[Jim Jefferies (comedian)|Jim Jefferies]]
*[[Judith Lucy]]
*[[Paul McDermott]]
*[[Tim Minchin]]
*[[Julia Morris]]
*[[Rodney Rude]]
*[[Akmal Saleh]]
*[[Vince Sorrenti]]
*[[Kevin Bloody Wilson]]
*[[Rebel Wilson]]
*[[Paul Hogan]]
}}

== Austria ==
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* [[Alfred Dorfer]]
* [[Karl Farkas]]
* [[Josef Hader]]
* [[Michael Niavarani]]
* [[Alf Poier]]
* [[Helmut Qualtinger]]
* [[Lukas Resetarits]]
}}

== Bangladesh ==
* [[Naveed Mahbub]]

== Belgium ==
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* [[Alex Agnew]]
* [[Els de Schepper]]
* [[Wouter Deprez]]
* [[Bert Gabriëls]]
* [[Geert Hoste]]
* [[Bert Kruismans]]
* [[Urbanus]]
* [[Philippe Geubels]]
}}

==Brazil==
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* [[Rafinha Bastos]]
* [[Oscar Filho]]
* [[Luiz França]]
* [[Danilo Gentili]]
* [[Fábio Porchat]]
}}

== Canada ==
{{Main|List of Canadian stand-up comedians}}

== Colombia ==
* [[Andrés López Forero|Andrés López]]

== Cuba ==
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* [[Joey Diaz]]
* [[Leopoldo Fernández (Tres Patines)|Leopoldo Fernández]]
* [[Guillermo Álvarez Guedes]]
}}

== Denmark ==
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* [[Casper Christensen]]
* [[Elias Ehlers]]
* [[Christian Geo Heltboe|GEO]]
* [[Jan Gintberg]]
* [[Sofie Hagen]]
* [[Lars Hjortshøj]]
* [[Martin Høgsted]]
* [[Frank Hvam]]
* [[Rune Klan]]
* [[Anders Matthesen]]
* [[Lasse Rimmer]]
* [[Simon Lemming Talbot|Simon Talbot]]
* [[Mikael Wulff]]
}}

== Finland ==
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* [[Sami Hedberg]]
* [[Ismo Leikola]]
* [[Jope Ruonansuu]]
* [[Stan Saanila]]
* [[Jaakko Saariluoma]]
* [[Krisse Salminen]]
* [[Markku Toikka]]
* [[André Wickström]]
}}

== France ==
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* [[Kev Adams]]
* [[Édouard Baer]]
* [[Guy Bedos]]
* [[Malik Bentalha]]
* [[Jean-Marie Bigard]]
* [[Éric Blanc]]
* [[Dany Boon]]
* [[Michel Boujenah]]
* [[Bourvil]]
* [[Nicolas Canteloup]]
* [[Alain Chabat]]
* [[Coluche]]
* [[Jamel Debbouze]]
* [[Pierre Desproges]]
* [[Raymond Devos]]
* [[Dieudonné (comedian)|Dieudonné]]
* [[Albert Dupontel]]
* [[Gad Elmaleh]]
* [[Florence Foresti]]
* [[Les Inconnus]]
* [[Thierry Le Luron]]
* [[Valérie Lemercier]]
* [[Pierre Palmade]]
* [[Anne Roumanoff]]
* [[Tomer Sisley]]
* [[Jean Yanne]]
}}

== Germany ==
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*[[Mario Barth]]
*[[Bülent Ceylan]]
*[[Anke Engelke]]
*[[Paco Erhard]]
*[[Heinz Erhardt]]
*[[Michael Herbig]]
*[[Eckart von Hirschhausen]]
*[[Hape Kerkeling]]
*[[Jürgen von der Lippe]]
*[[Felix Lobrecht]]
*[[Michael Mittermeier]]
*[[Dieter Nuhr]]
*[[Oliver Pocher]]
*[[Helge Schneider]]
*[[Martin Schneider]]
*[[Atze Schröder]]
*[[Hella von Sinnen]]
*[[Otto Waalkes]]
*[[Henning Wehn]]
*[[Kaya Yanar]]
}}

== Hong Kong ==
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*[[Jami Gong]]
*[[Michael Hui]]
*[[Vivek Mahbubani]]
*[[Cheuk Wan Chi]]
*[[Dayo Wong]]
*[[Jimmy O Yang]]
}}

== Hungary ==
*[[Sándor Fábry]]
*[[Géza Hofi]]

== Iceland ==
*[[Jón Gnarr]]

== India ==
{{see also|List of Indian comedians}}
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*[[Abish Mathew]]
*[[Ali Asgar (actor)|Ali Asgar]]
*[[Alexander Babu]]
*[[Anubhav Singh Bassi]]
*[[Appurv Gupta]]
*[[Atul Khatri]]
*[[Bhagwant Mann]]
*[[Bharti Singh]]
*[[Biswa Kalyan Rath]]
*[[Chandan Prabhakar]]
*[[Daniel Fernandes (comedian)|Daniel Fernandes]]
*[[Govinda (actor)|Govinda]]
*[[Gursimran Khamba]]
*[[Jamie Lever]]
*[[Johnny Lever]]
*[[Kanan Gill]]
*[[Kaneez Surka]]
*[[Kapil Sharma (comedian)|Kapil Sharma]]
*[[Kenny Sebastian]]
*[[Krushna Abhishek]]
*[[Kunal Kamra]]
*[[Manish Paul]]
*[[Munawar Faruqui]]
*[[Navin Prabhakar]]
*[[Palaniappan Manickam]] (Dr. Pal)
*[[Papa CJ]]
*[[Paresh Ganatra]]
*[[Preeti Ganguly]]
*[[Raju Srivastava]]
*[[Rakesh Bedi]]
*[[Ramesh Pisharody]]
*[[Rehman Khan]]
*[[Rohan Joshi]]
*[[Samay Raina]]
*[[Sanjay Rajoura]]
*[[Siddharth Sagar]]
*[[Sorabh Pant]]
*[[Sudesh Lehri]]
*[[Sumeet Raghavan]]
*[[Sumukhi Suresh]]
*[[Sunil Grover]]
*[[Sunil Pal]]
*[[Tanmay Bhat]]
*[[Urooj Ashfaq]]
*[[V.I.P. (comedian)|V.I.P.]]
*[[Vipul Goyal]]
*[[Vir Das]]
*[[Zakir Khan (comedian)|Zakir Khan]]
}}

== Indonesia ==
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*[[Pandji Pragiwaksono]]
*[[Raditya Dika]]
*Rizky Firdaus Wijaksana, a.k.a. [[Uus (comedian)|Uus]]
}}

== Ireland ==
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* [[Yasmine Akram]]
* [[Dave Allen (comedian)|Dave Allen]]
* [[Aisling Bea]]
* [[Des Bishop]]
* [[Blindboy Boatclub]]
* [[Catherine Bohart]]
* [[Robbie Bonham]]
* [[Robert Broderick]]
* [[Peadar de Burca]]
* [[Ed Byrne (comedian)|Ed Byrne]]
* [[Jason Byrne (comedian)|Jason Byrne]]
* [[Dave Callan]]
* [[Oliver Callan]]
* [[Fred Cooke (comedian)|Fred Cooke]]
* [[Gary Cooke]]
* [[Risteárd Cooper]]
* [[Francis Cronin]]
* [[Jack Cruise]]
* [[Neil Delamere]]
* [[Aoife Dooley]]
* [[Gearoid Farrelly]]
* [[Tara Flynn]]
* [[PJ Gallagher (comedian)|PJ Gallagher]]
* [[Conal Gallen]]
* [[Brendan Grace]]
* [[Maeve Higgins]]
* [[Sharon Horgan]]
* [[Sean Hughes (comedian)|Sean Hughes]]
* [[Jimeoin]]
* [[Mel Kelly]]
* [[Jon Kenny]]
* [[Patrick Kielty]]
* [[Michael Legge (comedian)|Michael Legge]]
* [[Katherine Lynch]]
* [[Ian Macpherson (comedian)|Ian Macpherson]]
* [[Andrew Maxwell]]
* [[Kevin McAleer]]
* [[Patrick McDonnell (actor)|Patrick McDonnell]]
* [[Joanne McNally]]
* [[David McSavage]]
* [[Spike Milligan]]
* [[Patrick Monahan (comedian)|Patrick Monahan]]
* [[Dylan Moran]]
* [[Dermot Morgan]]
* [[Barry Murphy (comedian)|Barry Murphy]]
* [[Colin Murphy (comedian)|Colin Murphy]]
* [[Graham Norton]]
* [[Dara Ó Briain]]
* [[Brendan O'Carroll]]
* [[Jimmy O'Dea]]
* [[David O'Doherty]]
* [[Chris O'Dowd]]
* [[Ardal O'Hanlon]]
* [[Deirdre O'Kane]]
* [[Bernard O'Shea]]
* [[Abie Philbin Bowman]]
* [[Al Porter]]
* [[Maureen Potter]]
* [[Jarlath Regan]]
* [[Hal Roach (comedian)|Hal Roach]]
* [[Joe Rooney]]
* [[Mario Rosenstock]]
* [[Cecil Sheridan]]
* [[Pat Shortt]]
* [[Karl Spain]]
* [[Alison Spittle]]
* [[Andrew Stanley]]
* [[Tommy Tiernan]]
* [[Niall Tóibín]]
* [[Paul Tylak]]
* [[Dermot Whelan]]
* [[Paul Woodfull]]
}}

== Israel ==
* [[Adir Miller]]
* [[Naor Zion]]

== Italy ==
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*[[Roberto Benigni]]
*[[Maurizio Crozza]]
*[[Rosario Fiorello|Fiorello]]
*[[Dario Fo]]
*[[Beppe Grillo]]
*[[Daniele Luttazzi]]
*[[Giorgio Panariello]]
*[[Franca Rame]]
*[[Franca Valeri]]
*[[Bice Valori]]
}}

== Malawi ==
* [[Daliso Chaponda]]

== Malaysia ==
* [[Hannan Azlan]]
* [[Douglas Lim]]
* [[Harith Iskander]]
* [[Jason Leong]]
* [[Kavin Jayaram]]
* [[Nigel Ng]]
* [[Patrick Teoh]]
* [[Ronny Chieng]]

== Mexico ==
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* [[Cantinflas]]
* [[Chespirito]]
* [[Luis de Alba]]
* [[Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo]]
* [[Polo Polo]]
* [[Adal Ramones]]
}}

== Middle East ==
The first country listed is that of origin; the second is that in which the comedian achieved notability or most commonly performs.
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* [[Ahmed Ahmed]] (Egypt; US)
* [[Nawaal Akram]] (Qatar)
* [[Imran Al Aradi]] (Bahrain)
* [[Fahad Albutairi]] (Saudi Arabia)
* [[Max Amini]] (Iran; US)
* [[Won Ho Chung|Wonho Chung]] (Saudi Arabia)
* [[Omid Djalili]] (Iran; UK)
* [[Bassem Feghali]] (Lebanon)
* [[Ray Hanania]] (Palestine)
* [[Maz Jobrani]] (Iran; US)
* [[Aron Kader]] (Palestine; US)
* [[Ronnie Khalil]] (Egypt; US)
* [[Shappi Khorsandi]] (Iran; UK)
* [[Mina Liccione]] (US; UAE)
* [[Najee Mondalek]] (Lebanon)
* [[Dean Obeidallah]] (Palestine; US)
* [[Omar 'The White Sudani' Ramzi]] (Ireland/Sudan; Saudi Arabia)
* [[Ali Al Sayed]] (Dubai; UAE)
* [[Maysoon Zayid]] (Palestine; US)
}}

== Netherlands ==
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* [[Thomas Acda]]
* [[Najib Amhali]]
* [[Herman Finkers]]
* [[Ronald Goedemondt]]
* [[Javier Guzman]]
* [[Raoul Heertje]]
* [[Youp van 't Hek]]
* [[Freek de Jonge]]
* [[Paul de Leeuw]]
* [[Theo Maassen]]
* [[Patrick Meijer]]
* [[Hans Teeuwen]]
* [[Micha Wertheim]]
}}

==New Zealand==
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* [[Jarred Christmas]]
* [[Rose Matafeo]]
* [[Jemaine Clement]]
* [[Jeremy Corbett]]
* [[Benjamin Crellin]]
* [[Rhys Darby]]
* [[Dai Henwood]]
* [[Ben Hurley]]
* [[Billy T. James]]
* [[Mike King (advocate)|Mike King]]
* [[Brendhan Lovegrove]]
* [[Bret McKenzie]]
* [[Cal Wilson]]
* [[Ewen Gilmour]]
}}

== Nigeria ==
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* [[Akpororo]]
* [[Alibaba Akporobome|Ali Baba]]
* [[Ayo Makun]]
* [[Basketmouth]]
* [[Bovi Ugboma]]
* [[Helen Paul]]
* [[Okey Bakassi]]
* [[Real Warri Pikin]]
}}

==Norway==
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* [[Zahid Ali]]
* [[Atle Antonsen]]
* [[Arthur Arntzen (humorist)|Arthur Arntzen]]
* [[Øivind Blunck]]
* [[Espen Eckbo]]
* [[Harald Eia]]
* [[Åsleik Engmark]]
* [[Shabana Rehman Gaarder]]
* [[Johan Golden]]
* [[Hans Morten Hansen]]
* [[Harald Heide-Steen jr.]]
* [[Espen Beranek Holm]]
* [[Otto Jespersen (comedian)|Otto Jespersen]]
* [[Bård Tufte Johansen]]
* [[Leif Juster]]
* [[Are Kalvø]]
* [[Trond Kirkvaag]]
* [[Knut Lystad]]
* [[Lars Mjøen]]
* [[Bjørn Sand]]
* [[Hege Schøyen]]
* [[Linn Skåber]]
* [[Per Inge Torkelsen]]
* [[Kristian Valen]]
* [[Rolv Wesenlund]]
}}

==Pakistan==
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*[[Khalid Abbas Dar]]
*[[Sohail Ahmed]]
*[[Moin Akhter]]
*[[Amanullah]]
*[[Rauf Lala]]
*[[Kumail Nanjiani]]
*[[Umer Sharif]]
*[[Shakeel Siddiqui]]
*[[Tariq Teddy]]
*[[Naseem Vicky]]
}}

==Philippines==
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*[[Jose Manalo]]
*[[Wally Bayola]]
*[[Ai-Ai delas Alas]]
*[[K Brosas]]
*[[Allan K.]]
*[[John Lapus]]
*[[Rex Navarette]]
*[[Pokwang]]
*[[Tim Tayag]]
*[[Dolphy]]
*[[Panchito Alba]]
*[[Vic Sotto]]
*[[Vice Ganda]]
*[[Redford White]]
*[[Babalu (comedian)|Babalu]]
*[[Benjie Paras]]
*[[Vhong Navarro]]
*[[Jhong Hilario]]
}}

==Poland==
*[[Wojciech Cejrowski]]
*[[Abelard Giza]]
*[[Grzegorz Halama]]
*[[Jej Perfekcyjność]]

==Portugal==
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* [[Herman José]]
* [[Nuno Markl]]
* [[Bruno Nogueira]]
* [[Ricardo Araújo Pereira]]
* [[Zé Diogo Quintela]]
* [[Raúl Solnado]]
}}

==Russia==
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* [[Arkady Arkanov]]
* [[Maxim Galkin]]
* [[Mikhail Galustyan]]
* [[Gennady Khazanov]]
* [[Garik Martirosyan]]
* [[Sergei Svetlakov]]
* [[Klara Novikova]]
* [[Yevgeny Petrosyan]]
* [[Arkady Raikin]]
* [[Aleksandr Revva]]
* [[Timur Rodriguez]]
* [[Yakov Smirnoff]]
* [[Efim Shifrin]]
* [[Semyon Slepakov]]
* [[Kira Soltanovich]]
* [[Pavel Volya]]
* [[Vladimir Vinokur]]
* [[Ivan Urgant]]
* [[Leonid Yarmolnik]]
* [[Mikhail Yevdokimov]]
* [[Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov|Mikhail Zadornov]]
* [[Mikhail Zhvanetsky]]
}}

== Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ==

* [[Saluche]]

==Singapore==
* [[Fakkah Fuzz]]
* [[Jocelyn Chia]]
* [[Kumar (Singaporean entertainer)]]
* [[Rishi Budhrani]]
* [[Sam See]]
* [[Umar Rana]]

==Slovenia==
* [[Tin Vodopivec]]

==South Africa==
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* [[Alan Committie]]
* [[Deep Fried Man]]
* [[Loyiso Gola]]
* [[Barry Hilton]]
* [[Vittorio Leonardi]]
* [[Marc Lottering]]
* [[Mel Miller (comedian)|Mel Miller]]
* [[Riaad Moosa]]
* [[Trevor Noah]]
* [[Joe Parker (comedian)|Joe Parker]]
* [[Pieter-Dirk Uys]]
* [[John Vlismas]]
* [[Casper de Vries]]
* [[Celeste Ntuli]]
* [[Mpho Popps]]
}}

==Spain==
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* [[Rober Bodegas]]
* [[David Broncano]]
* [[Andreu Buenafuente]]
* [[Chiquito de la Calzada]]
* [[Raúl Cimas]]
* [[Patricia Conde (Spanish actress)|Patricia Conde]]
* [[Florentino Fernández (actor)|Florentino Fernández]]
* [[Ángel Garó]]
* [[Miguel Gila]]
* [[El Gran Wyoming]]
* [[Eva Hache]]
* [[Ángel Martín (actor)|Ángel Martín]]
* [[Dani Mateo]]
* [[Ana Morgade]]
* [[Pablo Motos]]
* [[Miki Nadal]]
* [[Gorka Otxoa]]
* [[Paz Padilla]]
* [[Pamela Palenciano]]
* [[Luis Piedrahita]]
* [[Yolanda Ramos]]
* [[Joaquín Reyes (Spanish actor)|Joaquín Reyes]]
* [[Pedro Reyes (comedian)|Pedro Reyes]]
* [[Berto Romero]]
* [[Dani Rovira]]
* [[Antonia San Juan]]
* [[Santiago Segura]]
* [[Ernesto Sevilla]]
* [[Roberto Vilar]]
* [[Pepe Viyuela]]
}}

==Sweden==
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*[[Kodjo Akolor]]
*[[David Batra]]
*[[Magnus Betnér]]
*[[Johannes Brost]]
*[[Jonas Gardell]]
*[[Johan Glans]]
*[[Björn Gustafsson]]
*[[Robert Gustafsson]]
*[[Michael Halvarson]]
*[[Soran Ismail]]
*[[Babben Larsson]]
*[[Lasse Lindroth]]
*[[Fredrik Lindström (writer)|Fredrik Lindström]]
*[[Jesper Odelberg]]
*[[Johan Rheborg]]
*[[Henrik Schyffert]]
}}
== Turkey ==
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*[[Beyazıt Öztürk|Beyaz]]
*[[Ata Demirer]]
*[[Cem Yılmaz]]
*[[Doğu Demirkol]]
}}

== United Kingdom ==<!-- This section is linked from [[Stand-up comedy]] -->
{{Main|List of stand-up comedians from the United Kingdom}}

== United States ==
{{Main|List of United States stand-up comedians}}

==Venezuela==
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*[[Luis Chataing]]
*[[Erika de la Vega]]
*[[Laureano Márquez]]
*[[Elías Muñoz]]
*[[Benjamin Rausseo]]
}}

== See also ==
*[[List of comedians]]
*[[List of deadpan comedians]]
{{portal bar|Biography|Comedy|Lists}}

==References==
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