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Agnes de Mille
American dancer and choreographer (1905–1993)
Agrippina Vaganova
Russian ballerina and founder of a ballet teaching method (1879-1951)
Alessandra Ferri
Italian prima ballerina
Alexandra Danilova
American ballet dancer
Alicia Alonso
Cuban ballerina (1920–2019)
Alicia Markova
British ballerina, choreographer, director and teacher of classical ballet (1910-2004)
Anna Pavlova
Russian ballet dancer (1881–1931)
Anneli Alhanko
Swedish ballet dancer and actress
Antoine Pitrot
French ballet dancer and choreographer
Anton Dolin
Ballet dancer and choreographer (1904-1983)
Antonio Cornazzano
Italian poet, writer, biographer, and dancing master (c. 1430–1484)
Antony Tudor
British dancer and choreographer
Armand Vestris
French choreographer
Arthur Mitchell (dancer)
American dancer and choreographer, co-founder of Dance Theatre of Harlem (1934-2018)
Arthur Saint-Léon
French choreographer
August Bournonville
Danish ballet master and choreographer
Auguste Vestris
French dancer (1760-1842)
Benjamin Millepied
French dancer, choreographer
Beryl Grey
British ballet dancer
Bronislava Nijinska
Russian ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer
Carlo Blasis
Italian ballet dancer and dance theoretician
Carlotta Grisi
Italian ballet dancer (1819-1899)
Carmen de Lavallade
American dancer and actress (born 1931)
Claude Balon
French dancer
Colette Marchand
French actress and dancer
Cynthia Gregory
American former prima ballerina (born 1946)
Darcey Bussell
British ballerina and television personality (born 1969)
De Lafontaine
French ballet dancer
Domenico da Piacenza
Dancer
Edward Villella
American danseur and choreographer (born 1936)
Enrico Cecchetti
Italian ballet dancer
Erik Bruhn
Danish ballet dancer
Eva Evdokimova
American dancer (1948-2009)
Fabritio Caroso
Italian Renaissance dancing master
Fanny Cerrito
Italian ballet dancer (1817-1909)
Fanny Elssler
Austrian ballerina (1810-1884)
Filippo Taglioni
Ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer
Françoise Prévost
French ballet dancer (1680-1741)
Frederick Ashton
British dancer and choreographer (1904–1988)
Gaétan Vestris
French ballet dancer (1729-1808)
Galina Ulanova
Russian ballet dancer
Geneviève Gosselin
French ballet dancer
George Balanchine
Georgian-American ballet choreographer (1904–1983)
Guglielmo Ebreo da Pesaro
Italian dancer
Ida Rubinstein
Russian actress and dancer
Jacques d'Amboise (dancer)
American dancer and choreographer
Jean Coralli
French ballet dancer and choreographer (1779-1854)
Jean-Georges Noverre
French dancer (1727-1810)
Jerome Robbins
American choreographer, director and dancer
Jules Perrot
French ballet dancer and choreographer
Lev Ivanov
Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, creator of a "Swan Lake"
Liu Qingtang
Chinese ballet dancer
Louis Dupré (dancer)
French ballet dancer and choreographer
Lucien Petipa
French ballet dancer
Lucile Grahn
Danish ballet dancer (1819-1907)
Margot Fonteyn
English ballerina (1919–1991)
Maria Tallchief
American ballerina
Marie Allard
French ballerina
Marie Rambert
Dancer and teacher, founder of Ballet Rambert
Marie Sallé
French ballet dancer
Marie Taglioni
Italian ballet dancer (1804-1884)
Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo
French dancer
Marie-Madeleine Guimard
French ballerina
Marie-Thérèse de Subligny
French ballerina
Marius Petipa
French-Russian ballet dancer and choreographer
Mathilde Kschessinska
Russian ballerina
Mats Ek
Swedish ballet dancer and choreographer
Maurice Béjart
French-born Swiss ballet dancer and choreographer
Maya Plisetskaya
Russian ballet dancer (1925-2015)
Michel Fokine
Russian choreographer (1880–1942)
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Latvian and American dancer (born 1948)
Misty Copeland
American ballet dancer (born 1982)
Natalia Dudinskaya
Russian ballet dancer
Natalia Makarova
Soviet and American ballet dancer
Ninette de Valois
Irish-born British dancer, teacher and choreographer, founder of The Royal Ballet and what became the Birmingham Royal Ballet, and of the Royal Ballet School
Olga Spessivtseva
Russian ballet dancer (1895-1991)
Patricia McBride
American ballet dancer
Pauline Leroux
French ballet dancer
Pavel Gerdt
Russian ballet dancer
Phyllis Spira
South African ballet dancer
Pierina Legnani
Italian ballerina (1863-1930)
Pierre Beauchamp
French ballet choreographer, dancer and composer
Robert Joffrey
Ballet choreographer
Roland Petit
French ballet dancer and choreographer
Rudolf Nureyev
Soviet-born ballet dancer (1938–1993)
Russell Maliphant
British contemporary dance choreographer
Sergei Polunin
Soviet-born ballet dancer, actor and model
Suzanne Farrell
American ballerina
Sylvie Guillem
French ballet dancer
Tamara Geva
Soviet-American actress and dancer (1906–1997)
Tamara Karsavina
Russian ballet dancer
Vaslav Nijinsky
Polish ballet dancer and choreographer
Vera Zorina
Norwegian ballerina
Violetta Elvin
Russian ballet dancer
Virginia Zucchi
Italian dancer
Vladimir Vasiliev (dancer)
Soviet dancer
Xue Jinghua
Chinese ballerina (born 1945)
Yvette Chauviré
French ballet dancer
Zizi Jeanmaire
French ballet dancer and singer