This is a list of people involved in dance.

Alphabetical

A

  • Eleonora Abbagnato - Italian ballet dancer
  • Stella Abrera - Filipino-American ballet dancer
  • Carlos Acosta - Cuban ballet dancer and artistic director of Birmingham Royal Ballet
  • Precious Adams - American ballet dancer
  • Carolina Agüero - Argentine ballet dancer
  • Joo Won Ahn - South Korean ballet dancer
  • Alvin Ailey - modern choreographer
  • Heléne Alexopoulos - American ballet dancer
  • Alicia Alonso - Cuban prima ballerina assoluta
  • Alicia Amatriain - Spanish ballet dancer
  • Carmen Amaya - Spanish flamenco dancer and singer
  • Dores André - Spanish ballet dancer
  • Elena Andreianova - considered the outstanding Russian ballerina of the romantic genre
  • Gasparo Angiolini - Italian ballet dancer, choreographer and theoretician
  • Ann-Margret (no surname) - Swedish-American dancer, actress, and singer in films; Viva Las Vegas
  • Aesha Ash - American ballet dancer
  • Merrill Ashley - American ballet dancer
  • Frederick Ashton - British ballet dancer and choreographer
  • Charles Askegard - American ballet dancer
  • Adele Astaire - American Broadway dancer and singer; Fred Astaire's dance partner, 1905–1931
  • Fred Astaire - American film and Broadway dancer, choreographer, singer and actor
  • Daniela Avanzini - American dancer and singer
  • Gary Avis - British ballet dancer
  • Silvia Azzoni - Italian ballet dancer

B

  • Elisa Badenes - Spanish ballet dancer
  • George Balanchine - Georgian-American choreographer credited for bridging classical and modern ballet
  • Caroline Baldwin (born 1990) - American ballet dancer
  • Matthew Ball - British ballet dancer
  • Shirley Ballas - British Latin dancer and TV presenter
  • Dominika Banevič - Lithuanian breakdancer
  • Ashley Banjo - British street dancer, choreographer and leader of Diversity
  • Marie Barch (1744–1827) - Danish ballerina
  • Liberty Barros - British yoga dancer
  • Aszure Barton - Canadian choreographer
  • Mikhail Baryshnikov - Russian ballet dancer
  • Léonore Baulac - French ballet dancer
  • Anton Du Beke - British ballroom dancer and TV presenter
  • Vytautas Beliajus - Lithuanian-American, considered the father of international folk dance
  • Jérémie Bélingard - French ballet dancer
  • Aran Bell - American ballet dancer
  • Leanne Benjamin - Australian ballet dancer
  • Hanna Berger - German-Austrian dancer and resistance fighter
  • Hannelore Bey - German ballet dancer
  • Inci Birol - Turkish belly dancer and actress
  • Joan Boada - Cuban ballet dancer
  • Gertrud Bodenwieser - Austrian dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and pioneer of modern dance
  • Roberto Bolle - Italian ballet dancer
  • Antoine Bournonville - French ballet dancer
  • August Bournonville - Danish ballet dancer and choreographer
  • Julie Bournonville - ballet dancer
  • Julio Bocca - Argentine ballet dancer
  • Roberto Bolle - Italian ballet dancer
  • Federico Bonelli - Italian ballet dancer
  • Hélène Bouchet - French ballet dancer
  • Ashley Bouder - American ballet dancer
  • Sofia Boutella - Algerian hip hop dancer
  • Kent Boyd - American teen dancing sensation; runner-up of Season 7 of So You Think You Can Dance; contemporary jazz, Broadway
  • Isabella Boylston - American ballet dancer
  • Skylar Brandt - American ballet dancer
  • James Brown - African American dancer, entertainer, singer, musician and songwriter
  • Erik Bruhn - Danish ballet dancer and choreographer
  • Stéphane Bullion - French ballet dancer
  • Cheryl Burke - American ballroom and Latin dancer
  • Darcey Bussell - British ballet dancer and TV presenter
  • Dany Bustros - Lebanese belly dancer
  • Nadiya Bychkova - Ukrainian ballroom dancer

C

  • Elisa Carrillo Cabrera - Mexican ballet dancer
  • Flavia Cacace - Italian and British ballroom dancer
  • Rita Cadillac - Brazilian dancer and singer
  • Maria Calegari - American ballet dancer
  • Claire Calvert - British ballet dancer
  • Alexander Campbell - Australian ballet dancer
  • Elisa Cansino - Spanish flamenco dancer
  • Leslie Caron - French-born ballet dancer and American film actress
  • José Manuel Carreño - Cuban ballet dancer
  • Yvonne Cartier - British ballet dancer, mime and teacher
  • Kamilla Carvalho - Brazilian samba dancer
  • Irene Castle - British-American ballroom dancer
  • Vernon Castle - British-American ballroom dancer
  • Vakhtang Chabukiani - Georgian ballet dancer
  • Guru Chandrasekharan - Indian dancer
  • Cyd Charisse - American ballet and film dancer
  • Si-Lan Chen - Chinese-Trinidadian dancer
  • Sun Chen - Taiwanese breakdancer
  • Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui - Belgian choreographer, artistic director of Royal Ballet of Flanders
  • Yuhui Choe - Korean ballet dancer
  • Frances Chung - Canadian ballet dancer
  • Jeffrey Cirio - American ballet dancer
  • Lia Cirio - American ballet dancer
  • The Clark Brothers - American tap dancers
  • Joanne Clifton - British ballroom dancer
  • Kevin Clifton - British ballroom dancer
  • Alina Cojocaru - Romanian ballet dancer
  • Valentine Colasante - French ballet dancer
  • Deborah Colker - Brazilian writer, theater director, dancer and choreographer
  • Calico Cooper - American actress, dancer, and singer daughter of Alice and Sheryl Cooper
  • Sheryl Cooper - American dancer and dance instructor, wife of Alice Cooper and mother of Calico Cooper
  • Jonathan Cope - British ballet dancer
  • Misty Copeland - American ballet dancer
  • Bernice Coppieters - Belgian ballet dancer
  • Vito Coppola - Italian ballroom dancer
  • Jean Coralli - French ballet dancer and choreographer
  • Angel Corella - Spanish premier danseur
  • Erica Cornejo - Argentine ballet dancer
  • Herman Cornejo - Argentine ballet dancer
  • Cesar Corrales - Canadian ballet dancer
  • Joaquín Cortés - Spanish ballet dancer and choreographer
  • Guillaume Côté - Canadian ballet dancer and choreographer
  • J'aime Crandall - American ballet dancer
  • John Cranko - South African ballet dancer and choreographer
  • Dick Crum - American prominent folk dance teacher
  • Merce Cunningham - American choreographer
  • Lauren Cuthbertson - English ballet dancer
  • Sophie Chevigny - French ballet dancer
  • Isabella Cubas - Spanish dancer
  • Nicole Cutler - South African ballroom dancer

D

  • Sophie Daguin - ballet mistress and ballerina
  • Dan Dailey - American film actor and dancer
  • Dalilah - Spanish belly dancer
  • Camilla Dallerup - Danish ballroom dancer
  • Jean Dauberval - French dancer and choreographer
  • Shiamak Davar - Indian choreographer
  • Sibéal Davitt - Irish sean-nós dancer
  • David Dawson - British choreographer
  • Igone de Jongh - Dutch ballet dancer
  • Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker - choreographer
  • Louis Deland - ballet master, ballet dancer, choreographer
  • Patricia Delgado - American ballet dancer, répétiteur and teacher
  • Michaela DePrince - Sierra Leonean-American ballet dancer
  • Gaby Deslys - French ballroom dancer and actress
  • Sasha De Sola - American ballet dancer
  • Prabhu Deva - Indian dancer and choreographer
  • Julie Diana - American ballet dancer, ballet master, writer and arts administrator
  • Charles-Louis Didelot - French dancer and choreographer
  • Dina - Egyptian belly dancer and actress
  • Anton Dolin - British ballet dancer and choreographer
  • Holly Dorger - American ballet dancer
  • Amy Dowden - British ballroom dancer
  • Anthony Dowell - British ballet dancer and choreographer
  • Joanne Doyle - Irish performer of Irish dance
  • Jurgita Dronina - Russian-Lithuanian ballet dancer
  • Remo D'Souza - Indian Bollywood choreographer
  • Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo a.k.a. "Nappytabs" - dance teachers, choreographers, and creative directors
  • Isadora Duncan - American dancer, "mother of modern dance"
  • Katherine Dunham - American pioneer of black dance, anthropologist, choreographer, creator of the Dunham Technique
  • Aurélie Dupont - French ballet dancer and artistic director of Paris Opera Ballet
  • Irina Dvorovenko - Ukrainian-American ballet dancer
  • Aurelia Dimier - French baller dancer
  • Colin Dunne - Irish performer of Irish dance

E

  • Madeleine Eastoe - Australian ballet dancer
  • Julia Edwards - Trinidadian dancer and choreographer
  • Andre Eglevsky - Russian-American ballet dancer and teacher; performed in Charles Chaplin's film Limelight
  • Alexander Ekman - Swedish choreographer
  • Jorma Elo - Finnish choreographer
  • Fanny Elssler - Austrian ballet dancer and actress
  • Sorella Englund - Finnish ballet dancer
  • Merche Esmeralda - Spanish flamenco dancer

F

  • Adolfina Fägerstedt - Swedish ballerina
  • Hekmet Fahmy - Egyptian belly dancer and actress
  • Robert Fairchild - American ballet dancer and actor
  • Silas Farley - American ballet dancer, choreographer and educator
  • Suzanne Farrell - American ballet dancer
  • Jane Farwell - American folk dance teacher
  • Marie Favart - French ballet dancer
  • Lorena Feijóo - Cuban ballet dancer
  • Lorna Feijóo - Cuban ballet dancer
  • Jairo Barrull Fernández - Spanish flamenco dancer
  • Marcelo Ferreira - Brazilian dancer and choreographer
  • Alessandra Ferri - Italian prima ballerina assoluta
  • Graciela Figueroa - Uruguayan dancer and choreographer
  • Michael Flatley - American step dancer
  • Bernadette Flynn - Irish performer of Irish dance
  • Nikisha Fogo - Swedish ballet dancer
  • Michel Fokine - Russian choreographer
  • Margot Fonteyn - British ballerina and assoluta
  • Thomas Forster - British ballet dancer
  • Bob Fosse - American dancer and musical theater choreographer
  • Nagwa Fouad - Egyptian belly dancer
  • Celia Franca - British ballet dancer, co-founder of the National Ballet of Canada
  • Alina Frasa - Finnish ballet dancer and choreographer
  • Francesco Gabriele Frola - Italian ballet dancer
  • Anine Frölich - Danish ballerina
  • Fujiko Fujima - Japanese dancer
  • Jovani Furlan - Brazilian ballet dancer
  • Anzu Furukawa - Japanese butoh dancer

G

  • Mara Galeazzi - Italian ballet dancer
  • Louis Gallodier - ballet master and choreographer
  • Mathieu Ganio - French ballet dancer
  • Gonzalo Garcia - Spanish ballet dancer
  • Daniel Gaudiello - Australian ballet dancer
  • Asen Gavrilov - Bulgarian ballet dancer and choreographer
  • Mitzi Gaynor - American film actress and dancer
  • Gisa Geert - Austrian actress and choreographer
  • Yekaterina Geltzer - prima ballerina of the Bolshoi in the 1910s and 1920s
  • Adeline Genée - Danish ballet dancer
  • Angelica Generosa - American ballet dancer
  • Yvonne Georgi - German ballet dancer
  • Elizaveta Gerdt - Russian dancer and teacher
  • Pavel Gerdt - "Prince of the St Petersburg stage"
  • Dorothée Gilbert - French ballet dancer
  • Marie-Agnès Gillot - French ballet dancer and choreographer
  • Ailes Gilmour - early Martha Graham dancer, socialist activist, and sister of Isamu Noguchi
  • Céline Gittens - Trinidadian ballet dancer
  • Alexander Godunov - Russian dancer who defected to the West
  • Matthew Golding - Canadian ballet dancer
  • Jeffrey Golladay - American ballet dancer
  • Chachi Gonzales - American hip-hop dancer
  • Chantal Gondang - Cameroonian dancer and choreographer
  • Len Goodman - British ballroom dancer and TV presenter
  • Betty Grable - American film actress and dancer
  • Alicia Graf Mack - American dancer
  • Martha Graham - American dancer and choreographer
  • Carolina Granberg - Swedish ballerina
  • Yury Grigorovich - Russian dancer, choreographer and artistic director
  • Fabio Grossi - Italian ballet dancer
  • Victor Gsovsky - Russian ballet dancer and choreographer
  • Carlos Gu - Chinese ballroom dancer
  • Sylvie Guillem - French ballet dancer
  • Martha Gularte - Uruguayan candombe dancer, poet and vedette
  • Erdem Gündüz - Turkish dancer
  • Yolanda Gutiérrez - Mexican and German dancer and artist

H

  • Craig Hall - American ballet dancer
  • David Hallberg - American ballet dancer
  • Anna Halprin - American postmodern dancer and teacher
  • Melissa Hamilton - Irish ballet dancer
  • MC Hammer - American hip hop dancer, rapper and choreographer
  • Christopher Hampson - English ballet dancer and choreographer, artistic director of Scottish Ballet
  • Karen Hardy - British ballroom dancer
  • Mata Hari - Dutch born dancer, courtesan and alleged spy
  • Evelyn Hart - Canadian ballet dancer
  • Karen Hauer - Venezuelan–American ballroom dancer
  • Sarah Hay - American actress and ballet dancer
  • Francesca Hayward - British ballet dancer
  • Rita Hayworth - American film dancer and actress
  • Robyn Hendricks - South African ballet dancer
  • Robert Helpmann - Australian ballet dancer
  • Susan Hendl - American ballet dancer and répétiteur
  • Heike Hennig - German dancer and choreographer
  • Audrey Hepburn - British ballerina and movie star
  • Isaac Hernández - Mexican ballet dancer
  • Paloma Herrera - Argentine ballet dancer and artistic director of Colon Theater Ballet
  • Laurent Hilaire - French ballet dancer, ballet master and associate director of the Paris Opera Ballet
  • Michaela Hinds - Canadian performer of Irish dance
  • Ryoichi Hirano - Japanese ballet dancer
  • Hedda Hjortsberg - Swedish ballet dancer
  • Greta Hodgkinson - American-Canadian ballet dancer
  • Hilde Holger - Austro-British expressionist dancer, choreographer, and pioneer of physically integrated dance
  • Anna Sophia Holmstedt - Swedish ballet dancer
  • Melissa Hough - American ballet dancer
  • Dulcie Howes - South African ballet dancer and founder of Cape Town City Ballet
  • Nikolaj Hübbe - Danish ballet dancer, artistic director of Royal Danish Ballet
  • Catherine Hurlin - American ballet dancer
  • Sterling Hyltin - American ballet dancer

I

  • Carrie Imler - American ballet dancer

J

  • Janet Jackson - American dancer, choreographer, actor and singer
  • Kevin Jackson - Australian ballet dancer
  • Michael Jackson - American dancer, choreographer, singer and entertainer
  • Rowena Jackson - New Zealand prima ballerina of the Royal Ballet
  • Drew Jacoby - American contemporary ballet dancer
  • Zizi Jeanmaire - French ballet dancer
  • Whitney Jensen - American ballet dancer
  • Quina Jiménez - Spanish flamenco dancer
  • Lana Jones - Australian ballet dancer
  • Neil Jones - British ballroom dancer
  • Raghav Juyal - Indian dancer and choreographer, known for his slo-motion dance style

K

  • Karen Kain - Canadian prima ballerina
  • Yuriko Kajiya - Japanese ballet dancer
  • Fumi Kaneko - Japanese ballet dancer
  • Kang Sue-jin - Korean ballet dancer
  • Vera Karalli - Russian ballet dancer and actress
  • Bernara Karieva - Uzbek ballerina
  • Gene Kelly - American film and stage dancer, choreographer, singer, actor and film director
  • Perri Kiely - British street dancer
  • Julie Kent - American ballet dancer and artistic director of The Washington Ballet
  • Akram khan - British dancer and choreographer
  • Farah Khan - Indian Bollywood choreographer and filmmaker
  • Saroj Khan - Indian Bollywood choreographer
  • Michael Kidd - American Broadway and film choreographer and dancer
  • Philip Kim - Canadian breakdancer
  • Ty King-Wall - New Zealand ballet dancer
  • Gelsey Kirkland - former legendary American Ballet Theatre and Principal dancer with the New York City Ballet
  • Nehemiah Kish - American ballet dancer
  • Daria Klimentová - Czech ballet dancer, teacher and photographer
  • Hikaru Kobayashi - Japanese ballet dancer
  • Maria Kochetkova - Russian ballet dancer
  • Ako Kondo - Japanese ballet dancer
  • Manlee Kongprapad - Thai dancer
  • Carla Körbes - Brazilian ballet dancer
  • Maria Kowroski - American ballet dancer
  • Gertrud Kraus - Israeli pioneer of modern dance
  • Rebecca Krohn - American ballet dancer
  • Mathilde Kschessinska - Russian ballet dancer, second prima ballerina assoluta
  • Misa Kuranaga - Japanese ballet dancer
  • Stephanie Kurlow - Australian ballet dancer, first Hijabi ballerina
  • Nikita Kuzmin - Ukrainian ballroom dancer
  • Jiří Kylián - Czech choreographer

L

  • Rudolf Laban - Austro-Hungarian choreographer, inventor of Labanotation
  • Lucia Lacarra - Spanish ballet dancer
  • Eddie Ladd - Welsh Physical Theatre performer and dancer
  • Sarah Lamb - American ballet dancer
  • Jean-Baptiste Landé - French ballet dancer, founder of the Russian ballet
  • Sarah Lane - American ballet dancer
  • Tina LeBlanc - American ballet dancer, teacher and ballet master
  • Louise Lecavalier - Canadian contemporary dancer
  • Douglas Lee - British ballet dancer and choreographer
  • Lee Lee Lan - Malaysian ballet dancer and choreographer
  • Leejung Lee - South Korean dancer and choreographer
  • Kai Leete - Estonian ballet and folk dancer
  • Manuel Legris - French ballet dancer and artistic director of Vienna State Ballet
  • Pierina Legnani - first prima ballerina assoluta
  • Sara Leland - American ballet dancer and répétiteur
  • Alban Lendorf - Danish ballet dancer
  • Nicolas Le Riche - French ballet dancer and choreographer
  • Lawrence Leritz - American dancer and choreographer
  • Agnès Letestu - French ballet dancer
  • Tracy Li - Chinese ballet dancer; a senior principal in the Cape Town City Ballet, South Africa
  • Edwaard Liang - Taiwanese-born American dancer and choreographer
  • Serge Lifar - Ukrainian ballet dancer and choreographer
  • Maude Lloyd - South African ballerina and dance critic
  • Elena Lobsanova - Russian-Canadian ballet dancer
  • Jennifer Lopez - American (Puerto Rican descent) dancer, singer and actress
  • Annabelle Lopez Ochoa - Belgian choreographer
  • Lydia Lopokova - Russian ballet dancer
  • Lauren Lovette - American ballet dancer and choreographer
  • Svetlana Lunkina - Russian ballet dancer

M

  • Motsi Mabuse - South African dancer and TV presenter
  • Oti Mabuse - South African dancer
  • Brooklyn Mack - American ballet dancer
  • Mayara Magri - Brazilian ballet dancer
  • Shantanu Maheshwari - Indian dancer, choreographer and actor
  • Natascha Mair - Austrian ballet dancer
  • Natalia Makarova - Russian ballet dancer
  • David Makhateli - Georgian ballet dancer
  • Maia Makhateli - Georgian ballet dancer
  • Marianna Malińska - Polish ballet dancer
  • Hugo Marchand - French ballet dancer
  • Paul Marque - French ballet dancer
  • Roberta Marquez - Brazilian ballet dancer
  • Cathy Marston - British choreographer
  • Sophie Martin - French ballet dancer
  • Badia Masabni - Lebanese belly dancer
  • Kizzy Matiakis - English ballet dancer
  • José Martínez - Spanish ballet dancer
  • William Matons - WPA-era, 1930s modern dancer and choreographer, known later during Calypso craze as Calypso Joe, and later as General Hershy Bar
  • Sabrina Matthews - Canadian ballet choreographer and former ballet dancer
  • Kay Mazzo - American ballet dancer and educator, Chairman of Faculty of School of American Ballet
  • David McAllister - Australian ballet dancer, former artistic director of The Australian Ballet
  • Wayne McGregor - British choreographer
  • Elizabeth McGorian - Zimbabwean ballerina
  • Trey McIntyre - American dancer and choreographer
  • Amanda McKerrow - American ballet dancer
  • Rachael McLaren - Canadian dancer
  • Steven McRae - Australian ballet dancer
  • Tate McRae - first-ever Canadian finalist in So You Think You Can Dance
  • Sara Mearns - American ballet dancer
  • Vrushika Mehta - Indian contemporary dancer and television actress
  • Itziar Mendizabal - Spanish ballet dancer
  • Sulamith Messerer - founder of Japanese ballet
  • Jo Mihaly - German dancer and writer
  • Ann Miller - American tap dancer, singer, and actress, especially in films
  • Kunduz Mirkarimova - Uzbek dancer
  • Arthur Mitchell - American artistic director, educator, choreographer and dancer
  • Shakti Mohan - Indian contemporary dancer and winner of Dance India Dance 2
  • Baisali Mohanty - Indian classical dancer and choreographer
  • Victor Montalvo - American breakdancer
  • Pippa Moore - English ballet dancer
  • Marcelly Morena - Brazilian samba dancer and singer
  • Laura Morera - Spanish ballet dancer
  • Kathryn Morgan - American ballet dancer and YouTuber
  • Keo Motsepe - South African ballroom dancer
  • Mary Ellen Moylan - American ballet dancer
  • Hope Muir - Canadian dancer, artistic director of National Ballet of Canada, former artistic director of Charlotte Ballet
  • Vadim Muntagirov - Russian ballet dancer
  • Gillian Murphy - American ballet dancer
  • Graeme Murphy - Australian choreographer
  • Arthur Murray - American dance instructor and businessman, known for the Arthur Murray Dance Studios franchise
  • Louis-Stanislas Montjoie - French ballet dancer

N

  • Yasmine Naghdi - British ballet dancer
  • Vilma Nascimento - Brazilian samba dancer
  • Gene Nelson - American film dancer, actor and television director
  • Nadia Nerina - South African ballet dancer
  • John Neumeier - American choreographer, artistic director of Hamburg Ballet
  • Nicholas Brothers - African American dancing brothers (Fayard and Harold) known for their acrobatic techniques
  • Kyra Nichols - American ballet dancer and teacher
  • Nikolina Nikoleski - Croatian teacher and choreographer of Bharatnatyam
  • Vaslav Nijinsky - Russian ballet dancer and choreographer
  • Ena Noël - Australian children's author and ballet dancer
  • Daire Nolan - Irish performer of Irish dance
  • Charlotta Norberg - Swedish ballet dancer
  • Siphesihle November - South African ballet dancer
  • Ivan Novikoff - Russian ballet master, founder of Novikoff School of Russian-American Ballet
  • Marianela Nuñez - Argentine-British ballet dancer
  • Rudolf Nureyev - Russian ballet dancer
  • Mamela Nyamza - South African dancer, choreographer and activist

O

  • Agnes Oaks - Estonian ballet dancer
  • Donald O'Connor - American dancer, singer and actor
  • Heather Ogden - Canadian ballet dancer
  • Kazuo Ohno - Japanese butoh dancer
  • Fernanda Oliveira - Brazilian ballet dancer
  • Jonathan Ollivier - British ballet dancer
  • Zeinat Olwi - Egyptian belly dancer
  • Hannah O'Neill - New Zealand ballet dancer
  • Simona Orinska - Latvian multidisciplinary artist, contemporary dancer, poet, choreographer and practitioner of dance therapy
  • Julia O'Rourke - Irish step dancer
  • Carlos Orta - Venezuelan dancer
  • Nancy Osbaldeston - English ballet dancer
  • Natalia Osipova - Russian ballet dancer
  • Clairemarie Osta - French ballet dancer
  • Anna Rose O'Sullivan - British ballet dancer
  • Sonia Osorio - Ballet de Colombia founder

P

  • Stephen Page - Australian choreographer, artistic director of Bangarra Dance Theatre
  • Ludmila Pagliero - Argentine ballet dancer
  • Maria Palmer - Austrian-born American actress and dancer
  • Hermes Pan - film choreographer, especially in collaboration with Fred Astaire
  • Noelani Pantastico - American ballet dancer
  • Merle Park - Zimbabwean ballerina at the Royal Ballet
  • Sae Eun Park - South Korean ballet dancer
  • Georgina Parkinson - English ballet dancer and ballet mistress
  • Veronika Part - Russian ballet dancer
  • Cathy Patra - Ugandan dancer
  • Anna Pavlova - Russian prima ballerina, who brought ballet to the world
  • Alexandre Paulikevitch - Lebanese belly dancer
  • Georgina Pazcoguin - American ballet dancer
  • Justin Peck - American ballet dancer and choreographer
  • Tiler Peck - American ballet dancer
  • Rupert Pennefather - British ballet dancer
  • Tina Pereira - Trinidadian-Canadian ballet dancer
  • Rosie Perez - American (Afro-Puerto Rican descent) dancer, choreographer, actress and director
  • Jules Perrot - French ballet dancer and choreographer
  • Giovanni Pernice - Italian ballroom dancer
  • Marius Petipa - choreographer who created the classical ballet
  • Vilhelm Pettersson - Swedish ballet dancer
  • Unity Phelan - American ballet dancer
  • Juanita Pitts - African-American tap dancer
  • Maya Plisetskaya - prima ballerina assoluta of the Bolshoi Ballet from 1960 to 1990
  • David Poole - South African ballet dancer and ballet master at Cape Town City Ballet
  • Eleanor Powell - American actress and dancer of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her exuberant solo tap dancing
  • Ida Praetorius - Danish ballet dancer
  • Angelin Preljocaj - French dancer and choreographer
  • Olga Preobrajenska - Russian dancer and teacher
  • Juliet Prowse - South African-American dancer, actress, and singer in films
  • Jowita Przystał - Polish ballroom dancer
  • Laetitia Pujol - French ballet dancer
  • Brian Puspos - American hip-hop dancer, choreographer

Q

  • Liu Qingyi - Chinese breakdancer

R

  • Johannes Radebe - South African ballroom dancer
  • Sascha Radetsky - American ballet dancer and artistic director of American Ballet Theatre Studio Company
  • Samantha Raine - British ballet dancer and ballet mistress
  • Daniel Rajna - South African ballet dancer, currently a principal in the Cape Town City Ballet
  • Tina Ramirez - founder and artistic director of Ballet Hispanico
  • Teresa Reichlen - American ballet dancer
  • Alice Renavand - French ballet dancer
  • Dwight Rhoden - American choreographer, artistic director of Complexions Contemporary Ballet
  • Moon Ribas - Spanish choreographer with a cybernetic sensor attached to her body that allows her to feel earthquakes
  • María Noel Riccetto - Uruguayan ballet dancer
  • Jenifer Ringer - American ballet dancer and teacher
  • Jerome Robbins - American choreographer
  • Flor de María Rodríguez - Uruguayan ballet dancer and choreographer
  • Nereyda Rodríguez - Dominican folklorist and dancer
  • Sonia Rodriguez - Canadian ballet dancer
  • Zhandra Rodríguez - Venezuelan prima ballerina
  • Ginger Rogers - American film and stage dancer, singer and actress, most remembered as partner of Fred Astaire
  • Tamara Rojo - Spanish ballet dancer and artistic director of English National Ballet
  • Pedro Romeiras - Portuguese ballet dancer
  • Custodia Romero - Spanish flamenco dancer and actress
  • Gunhild Rosén - Swedish ballerina, ballet master and choreographer
  • Danielle Rowe - Australian ballet dancer and choreographer
  • Calvin Royal III - American ballet dancer

S

  • Stephanie Saland - American ballet dancer and teacher
  • Saleem (Saleem Azzouqa) - American playwright, actor, DJ, and dancer
  • Iana Salenko - Ukrainian-German ballet dancer
  • Marcelino Sambé - Portuguese ballet dancer
  • Hester Santlow - British ballet dancer and actress
  • Oh Sehun - South Korean dancer and member of EXO
  • Ruth St. Denis - American dancer who tried to fuse modern dance with Egyptian and east Asian ideas in collaboration with her partner Ted Shawn
  • Olga Sandberg - Swedish ballerina
  • Margrethe Schall - Danish ballet dancer
  • Silja Schandorff - Danish ballet dancer
  • Amanda Schull - American actress and ballet dancer
  • Amber Scott - Australian ballet dancer
  • Anders Selinder - ballet master and choreographer
  • Polina Semionova - Russian ballet dancer
  • Hee Seo - South Korean ballet dancer
  • Ciara Sexton - British professional Irish dancer
  • Lynn Seymour - Canadian ballet dancer
  • Uday Shankar - Indian pioneer of modern dance in India
  • Ted Shawn - American ballet dancer often in collaboration with his influential partner Ruth St. Denis; they were the creators of Denishawn
  • Moira Shearer - Scottish ballet dancer and actress in The Red Shoes
  • Fang-Yi Sheu - Taiwanese dancer
  • Shobana - Indian Bharatanatyam dancer
  • Ingrid Silva - Brazilian ballet dancer
  • Daniil Simkin - Russian-German ballet dancer
  • Vincent Simone - Italian ballroom dancer
  • Mary Skeaping - British ballerina
  • Megan Skiendiel- American dancer and singer
  • Wayne Sleep - British ballet dancer and TV personality
  • Charlotte Slottsberg - Swedish ballet dancer
  • Damian Smith - Australian ballet dancer
  • Paew Snidvongseni - Thai dancer
  • Thiago Soares - Brazilian ballet dancer
  • Yuri Soloviev - soloist of the Kirov Theatre
  • Jennie Somogyi - American ballet dancer
  • Phyllis Spira-Boyd - South African ballet dancer
  • Helene Spilling - Norwegian dancer and TV personality
  • Abi Stafford - American ballet dancer
  • Jonathan Stafford - American ballet dancer and artistic director of New York City Ballet
  • Taylor Stanley - American ballet dancer
  • Cory Stearns - American ballet dancer
  • Lisa Steier - Swedish ballerina
  • Dana Stephensen - Australian ballet dancer
  • Ethan Stiefel - American ballet dancer and choreographer
  • Beatriz Stix-Brunell - American ballet dancer
  • Madoka Sugai - Japanese ballet dancer
  • Laurretta Summerscales - British ballet dancer
  • Amie Sultan - Egyptian belly dancer
  • Sofiane Sylve - French ballet dancer

T

  • Marie Taglioni - Italian ballet dancer
  • Akane Takada - Japanese ballet dancer
  • Erina Takahashi - Japanese ballet dancer
  • Janie Taylor - American ballet dancer
  • Paul Taylor - American choreographer
  • Özcan Tekgül - Turkish dancer and actress
  • Devon Teuscher - America ballet dancer
  • Twyla Tharp - American dancer and choreographer
  • Khánh Thi - Vietnamese dancer
  • Emmanuel Thibault - French dancer, Paris Opera Ballet
  • Fanny Thibout - Belgian dancer and folklorist known as the "grand dame" of Walloon folk dance
  • Lisa Joann Thompson (born 1969) - Warrior Girl, Laker Girl, Fly Girl, and Motown Live dancer
  • Helgi Tómasson - Icelandic ballet dancer and choreographer, artistic director of San Francisco Ballet
  • Mark Tompkins (born 1954) - American-born French artist, dancer and choreographer of contemporary dance
  • Nesrin Topkapı - Turkish belly dancer
  • Tamara Toumanova - Georgian-American ballet dancer, one of Balanchine's three "Baby Ballerinas"
  • Elizabeth Triegaardt - South African ballerina and current director of Cape Town City Ballet
  • Tsai Jui-yueh - Taiwanese dancer and choreographer
  • Anna Tsygankova - Russian ballet dancer
  • Cassandra Trenary - American ballet dancer
  • Mukarram Turgunbaeva - Uzbek choreographer and dancer
  • Roger Tully - British dancer and teacher

U

  • Galina Ulanova (1910–1998) - Soviet prima ballerina assoluta
  • Eric Underwood - America British ballet dancer

V

  • Agrippina Vaganova - Russian ballerina and ballet pedagogue, founder of Vaganova method
  • Dame Ninette de Valois - Irish dancer, founder of the Royal Ballet of London
  • Rudi van Dantzig - Dutch choreographer
  • Hans van Manen - Dutch ballet dancer, choreographer and photographer
  • Sarah Van Patten - American ballet dancer
  • Jillian Vanstone - Canadian ballet dancer
  • Angelita Vargas - Spanish flamenco dancer
  • Francesca Velicu - Romanian ballet dancer
  • Vera-Ellen - American Broadway and film dancer and actress
  • Gwen Verdon - American Broadway dancer and actress
  • Ben Vereen - American actor, dancer and singer
  • Aliona Vilani - Russian-Kazakh ballroom dancer
  • Friedemann Vogel - German ballet dancer
  • Anastasia Volochkova - Russian prima ballerina

W

  • Esraa Warda - Algerian-American dancer
  • Katita Waldo - Spanish ballet dancer and ballet master
  • Peter Walker - American ballet dancer and choreographer
  • Cilli Wang - Austrian-born Dutch dancer, performer and theater maker
  • Seri Wangnaitham - Thai choreographer and dancer
  • Alexis Warr - American ballroom dancer
  • Vincent Warren - American-born Canadian dancer, teacher, dance historian and lecturer
  • Edward Watson - British ballet dancer
  • Miranda Weese - American ballet dancer
  • Wen Hui - Chinese dancer and choreographer
  • Stanton Welch - Australian ballet dancer and choreographer, artistic director of Houston Ballet
  • Christopher Wheeldon - British choreographer
  • Wendy Whelan - American ballet dancer and associate artistic director of New York City Ballet
  • James Whiteside - American ballet dancer
  • Kai Widdrington - British ballroom dancer
  • Robin Windsor - British ballroom dancer
  • Joy Womack - American ballet dancer
  • Peter Wright - British ballet dancer and choreographer
  • Leni Wylliams - African-American dancer/choreographer/master-teacher

X

  • Nancy Xu - Chinese ballroom dancer

Y

  • Nadia Yanowsky - Spanish ballet dancer
  • Yury Yanowsky - Spanish ballet dancer
  • Zenaida Yanowsky - Spanish ballet dancer
  • Lillian "Billie" Yarbo - American Broadway dancer and comedienne
  • Veronica Yearwood - Antiguan choreographer and dance company founder
  • Miyako Yoshida - Japanese ballet dancer
  • Allen Yu - Taiwanese dancer and choreographer
  • Ami Yuasa - Japanese breakdancer
  • Nellie Yu Roung Ling - Chinese-American dancer

Z

  • Vanessa Zahorian - American ballet dancer
  • Soheir Zaki - Egyptian belly dancer and actress
  • Oleksii Zhylenko - Ukrainian ballroom dancer
  • Dona Zica - Brazilian samba dancer
  • Maddie Ziegler - American dancer

By occupation in ballet

Theatre directors

  • Gerald Arpino
  • Jean Dauberval
  • Sergei Diaghilev
  • Robert Joffrey
  • Louis XIV
  • Jean-Baptiste Lully
  • Catherine de' Medici
  • Marie Rambert
  • Ninette de Valois
  • Robert de Warren

Choreographers

  • Sir Frederick Ashton
  • George Balanchine
  • Pierre Beauchamp
  • Erik Bruhn
  • John Cranko
  • Peter Darrell
  • Mikhail Fokine
  • William Forsythe
  • Yury Grigorovich
  • Lev Ivanovich Ivanov
  • Serge Lifar
  • Kenneth MacMillan
  • Léonide Massine
  • Sabrina Matthews
  • Bronislava Nijinska
  • Vaslav Nijinsky
  • Jean-Georges Noverre
  • Rudolf Nureyev
  • Jules Perrot
  • Marius Petipa
  • Roland Petit
  • Jerome Robbins
  • Filippo Taglioni
  • Antony Tudor
  • Robert de Warren

Dancers

  • Carlos Acosta
  • Alicia Alonso
  • Ann-Margret
  • Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Jérémie Bélingard
  • Maxim Beloserkovsky
  • Ashley Bouder
  • Erik Bruhn
  • Fernando Bujones
  • Darcey Bussell
  • Jennifer Butler
  • Leslie Caron
  • Jose Manuel Carreno
  • Fanny Cerito
  • Vakhtang Chabukiani
  • Cyd Charisse
  • Alina Cojocaru
  • Angel Corella
  • Anton Dolin
  • Aurelie Dupont
  • Irina Dvorovenko
  • Fanny Elssler
  • Megan Fairchild
  • Suzanne Farrell
  • Alessandra Ferri
  • Margot Fonteyn
  • Yekaterina Geltzer
  • Adeline Genée
  • Pavel Gerdt
  • Ailes Gilmour
  • Jeffrey Golladay
  • Marcelo Gomes
  • Lucile Grahn
  • Carlotta Grisi
  • Fabio Grossi
  • Sylvie Guillem
  • Rex Harrington
  • Evelyn Hart
  • Melissa Hayden
  • Paloma Herrera
  • Laurent Hilaire
  • Greta Hodgkinson
  • Rowena Jackson
  • Karen Kain
  • Allegra Kent
  • Julie Kent
  • Darci Kistler
  • Johan Kobborg
  • Maria Kochetkova
  • Maria Kowroski
  • Mathilde Kschessinska
  • Pierina Legnani
  • Manuel Legris
  • Lawrence Leritz
  • Agnes Letestu
  • Emma Livry
  • Uliana Lopatkina
  • Joaquín De Luz
  • Vladimir Malakhov
  • Alicia Markova
  • José Martínez
  • Patricia McBride
  • Gillian Murphy
  • Peter Naumann
  • Nadia Nerina
  • Kyra Nichols
  • Vaslav Nijinsky
  • Marianela Nunez
  • Rudolf Nureyev
  • Anna Pavlova
  • Élisabeth Platel
  • Maya Plisetskaya
  • Olga Preobrajenska
  • Juliet Prowse
  • Laetitia Pujol
  • Rolando Sarabia
  • Moira Shearer
  • Yuri Soloviev
  • Phyllis Spira
  • Ethan Stiefel
  • Sofiane Sylve
  • Marie Taglioni
  • Maria Tallchief
  • Ludmilla Tchérina
  • Emmanuel Thibault
  • Galina Ulanova
  • Auguste Vestris
  • Gaetan Vestris
  • Diana Vishneva
  • Wendy Whelan
  • Miyako Yoshida
  • Svetlana Zakharova

Teachers

  • Thoinot Arbeau
  • Cyril Atanassoff
  • George Balanchine
  • Claude Bessy
  • Pierre Beauchamp
  • Carlo Blasis
  • August Bournonville
  • Enrico Cecchetti
  • Raoul-Auger Feuillet
  • Elisabeth Gerdt
  • Rosella Hightower
  • Stanley Holden
  • Victor Kanevsky
  • Gelsey Kirkland
  • Attilio Labis
  • Nicolai Legat
  • Sulamith Messerer
  • Peter Naumann
  • Anna Pavlova
  • Jules Perrot
  • Domenico da Piacenza
  • Olga Preobrajenska
  • Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky
  • Pierre Rameau
  • Jerome Robbins
  • Víctor Ullate
  • Agrippina Vaganova
  • Auguste Vestris
  • Vera Volkova
  • Stanley Williams

Designers and scenographers

  • Léon Bakst
  • Alexandre Benois
  • Christian Bérard
  • Georges Braque
  • Marc Chagall
  • John Craxton
  • Salvador Dalí
  • André Derain
  • Barbara Karinska
  • Barry Kay
  • Pablo Picasso
  • Pavel Tchelitchev
  • Maurice Utrillo

See also

  • List of dancers
  • List of female dancers

References