People
Some people have developed reputations as pranksters in addition to other work, or in some cases have made pranking their primary work. Many pranksters are comedians or entertainers, while others engage in pranks connected to social activism or protest movements.
- Alan Abel — prankster, satirist
- Ken Babbs — writer, famous member of Merry Pranksters group
- Jeremy Beadle — British television personality
- Jello Biafra — musician, political activist
- Cyrus Broacha — Indian comedian
- George Clooney — film actor
- The Diggers — social activist group, originated Free Stores in the 1960s
- Rio Ferdinand - footballer
- Richard Feynman — Nobel prize winning physicist
- Allen Funt — producer of television show Candid Camera
- Rémi Gaillard — French humorist, prankster
- George Gamow — physicist, science writer
- Mel Gibson — film actor
- Eddie Gossling - comedian, writer
- Tom Green — actor, comedian
- Abbie Hoffman — political activist, leader of the Yippies, writer
- Andy Kaufman — comedian
- Ken Kesey — writer, organized Merry Pranksters group
- Jimmy Kimmel
- Ashton Kutcher - host, executive producer of Punk'd
- Tom Mabe — comedian
- monochrom — German
- Odd Future — rap crew
- Keith Moon — rock band musician
- Jim Moran — publicist, publicity stunt promoter
- Camille Paglia — feminist writer, teacher
- Janoskians - Australian web-based comedy group who deal with pranks and stunts
- Sean Penn — film actor
- Penn & Teller — comedians, magicians
- Darren "Whackhead" Simpson — South African radio host, prank caller
- Joey Skaggs — prankster, culture jammer
- Vivian Stanshall — English singer-songwriter, eccentric, worked with Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
- Carl Dean "Alfalfa" Switzer — child actor
- Hugh Troy — painter, Cornell student prankster
- Dick Tuck — political prankster against Richard Nixon
- The Yes Men — pranksters, satirists of corporate behavior
- Darryl F. Zanuck — film producer and director
- Anton LaVey — Occultist and writer
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