John Richard Hegley (born 1 October 1953) is a popular English performance poet, comedian, musician and songwriter. He was born in the Newington Green area of Islington, London, England, into a Roman Catholic household. He was brought up in Luton and Bristol.

After school he worked as a bus conductor and civil servant before attending the University of Bradford, where he gained a B.Sc. in European Literature and the History of Ideas and Sociology. Hegley has French ancestry (his father's name was René) and he claims to be a descendant of the composer Jean-Philippe Rameau.

His paternal grandmother was a dancer with the Folies Bergère.

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