Famous Ballet Dancers — Page 3: Lives & Works
Biographies of notable ballet dancers, ordered by how extensively their careers are documented.
Geneviéve Salbaing
Canadian dancer, choreographer and director
Laurel Martyn
Australian ballerina
Léonide Massine
ballet dancer (1896–1979)
Danny Tidwell
American dancer (1984-2020)
Vernon Martinus
ballet dancer and choreographer
Anna Nikulina
Russian ballet dancer
Gregory Hines
American actor and dancer (1946–2003)
Lucien Petipa
French ballet dancer (1815–1898)
Caterina Gattai Tomatis
Italian ballerina
Homer Ladas
Kizzy Matiakis
English ballet dancer
Mauro Bigonzetti
Ballet dancer and choreographer
Paul Taglioni
Italian choreographer (1808-1884)
Marie Christine Björn
Danish ballet dancer (1763-1837)
Maria Viganò
ballet dancer, the wife of Salvatore Viganò
Lisa Macuja-Elizalde
Filipina prima ballerina
Romola de Pulszky Nijinsky
author, aristocracy (social class)
Gunhild Rosén
Swedish ballet dancer, choreographer
Sandra Conley
British ballet dancer
Arthur Mitchell
American dancer and choreographer, co-founder of Dance Theatre of Harlem (1934-2018)
Nazlı Deniz Kuruoğlu
Turkish ballet dancer (born 1960)
Nicoletta Manni
ballet dancer
Cyd Charisse
American dancer and actress (1921–2008)
Maria Allash
Russian ballet dancer
Lucinda Dunn
Australian ballerina
Benjamin Millepied
French dancer and choreographer
Galina Talva
American ballet dancer
Mikhail Lobukhin
Russian ballet dancer (1984-)
Tae-ji Choi
South Korean ballet dancer
Alan Alder
Australian ballet dancer and teacher (1937-2019)
Lynne Golding-Kirk
Australian ballet dancer
Lindsay Kemp
British mime (1938-2018)
Maria Cumani Quasimodo
Italian actor and poet (1908-1995)
Kyra Nijinsky
ballet dancer of Polish and Hungarian ancestry and Russian dance heritage (1913-1998)
Amar Ramasar
ballet dancer
Max Harmonist
German chess player (1864-1907)
Nina Ananiashvili
Georgian artist
Darcey Bussell
British ballerina
Sheila Willis Kleiman
American ballet dancer, choreographer, and artistic director
Ivana Banfić
Croatian pop singer
Stanislava Brezovar
Slovenian ballet dancer (1937-2003)
Jenny Brandt
Swedish ballet dancer
Ethel Winter
American ballet dancer
Julius Reisinger
Russian ballet choreographer (1828–1893)
Natalia Clare
American ballet dancer and instructor (1919-2007)
Nellie Campobello
Mexican writer and ballet dancer
Valentina Kozlova
ballet dancer
Kirsten Simone
Danish ballerina
Elena Carter Richardson
American ballet dancer (1948-2006)
Maria Perini
Italian ballet teacher
Catherine Littlefield
American dancer
Ana Lucia Souza
Brazilian ballet dancer
Alicia Graf Mack
American dancer
Maria Casentini
Austrian ballet dancer
Vyacheslav Lopatin
Russian ballet dancer
Katherine LaNasa
American actress (born 1966)
Katharina Butteau
stage actor and ballet dancer
Emily VanCamp
Canadian actress
Adabel Guerrero
Ukrainian-Argentine burlesque dancer and vedette
Adam Cooper
British ballet dancer
Herman Cornejo
Argentinian dancer
Anne Ditchburn
actress/ballet dancer
Haruhisa Handa
Japanese businessman and founder of the World Mate religion
Greetje Donker
Dutch dancer (1906-1993)
Claire Motte
French ballet dancer, dance teacher and choreographer
Stephen Jefferies
ballet dancer
Christian Johansson
ballet dancer and teacher (1817–1903)
Lowri Shone
British ballet dancer
Alicia Markova
British ballerina, choreographer, director and teacher of classical ballet (1910-2004)
Lia Schubert
Austrian-born Israeli ballet dancer, choreographer, and teacher (1926–2000)
Pedro Romeiras
Portuguese ballet dancer
Emmanuel Thibault
French ballet dancer
Tatjana Suta
Latvian ballet dancer and museum founder (1923-2004)
Valery Panov
Soviet-Israeli dancer and choreographer
Imperio Argentina
Argentine-Spanish actress, singer
Joan Boada
Cuban ballet dancer
Phyllida Crowley Smith
British dancer, actress, and choreographer
Alexander Alexeyevich Gorsky
Russian choreographer (1871–1924)
Janine Charrat
French ballet dancer, actress and choreographer (1924–2017)
Andrea Kremer
American sports journalist
Anna Maria de Bruyn
Dutch actress
Stanley Holden
British ballet dancer (1928-2007)
Henny Mürer
Norwegian choreographer and dancer (1925–1997)
James Francis Ginty
American actor
Maki Kawamura
Japanese ballet dancer
Sara Leland
American ballet dancer (1941-2020)
Dusty Button
American ballerina
Jiří Jelínek
Czech ballet dancer
Sonia Humphrey
Australian television presenter and journalist
Barbra Milberg
American dancer
Gabrielle Ray
British actor, singer and dancer (1883–1973)
Keith Roberts
American dancer
Maria Abashova
ballet dancer
Hippolyte Monplaisir
French dancer (1821–1877)
Johanne Spindler
Danish ballet dancer and stage actress
Kyra Nichols
American ballet dancer
Michèle Renouf
Australian-British actor and model
S. E. Cupp
American conservative political commentator and writer
Raissa Calza
Ukrainian dancer and archaeologist (1894–1979)
Vaslav Nijinsky
Polish-Russian ballet dancer and choreographer
Tatyana Shlykova
Russian ballet dancer
Richard Wherlock
British dancer and choreographer (born 1958)
Lea Thompson
American actress
Sophie Karsten
Swedish artist (1783-1862)
Amparo Arrebato
Colombian dancer (1944-2004)
Nora Kiss
French ballet dancer and dance teacher (1908-1993)
Debbie McGee
English television, radio and stage performer
Joo Won Ahn
South Korean ballet dancer
Louis Mérante
ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer (Paris Opera)
Velda Otsus
Estonian actor and ballet dancer (1913-2006)
Lise Noblet
ballet dancer (1801–1852)
Carrie Lee Riggins
ballet dancer
Violette Verdy
ballerina and ballet teacher (1933-2016)
Toby Lerner Ansin
founder Miami City Ballet
Carina Ari
Swedish dancer, choreographer and sculptor (1897–1970)
Sean Young
American actress
Louis Hendrik Potgieter
South African singer and ballet dancer
Ommi Pipit-Suksun
Thai ballerina
Marie-Jeanne
American ballet dancer (1920-2007)
Hilda Lund
Swedish ballerina (1840-1911)