Richard Savage (poet)

Richard Savage
Illustration from Richard Savage: A Romance of Real Life by Charles Whitehead
Born	c. 1697 England
Died	1 August 1743 (aged 46) Bristol
Occupation	Poet, satirist
Relatives	Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers (father, disputed) Anne Gerard, Countess of Macclesfield (mother, disputed)

Richard Savage (c. 1697 – 1 August 1743) was an English poet. He is best known as the subject of Samuel Johnson's Life of Savage, originally published anonymously in 1744, which is based on one of the most elaborate of Johnson's Lives of the English Poets.