Famous Ballet Dancers — Page 2: Lives & Works
Biographies of notable ballet dancers, ordered by how extensively their careers are documented.
Arantxa Ochoa
Spanish dancer
Jun Shuang Huang
ballet dancer
Elizaveta Gerdt
Russian ballet dancer (1891–1975)
Anne Heaton
British ballerina
Sergei Polunin
Ukrainian-born ballet dancer, actor and model
Nadezhda Nadezhdina
Soviet ballet dancer and ballet master (1908-1979)
Daniel Rajna
(1968-) South African ballet dancer
Anna Como
Italian ballerina
Émilie Bigottini
ballet dancer, Opéra de Paris (1801-1823)
Irek Mukhamedov
Soviet dancer, ballet teacher and pedagog
Joan McCracken
American dancer and actress (1917–1961)
Margaretha Christina Åbergsson
Swedish ballet dancer
Alessandra Martines
Italian dancer and actress
Maite Perroni
Mexican singer, dancer, actress, compositor, producer, host, model, business woman
Moon Byung-nam
South Korean ballet dancer
Pavel Gerdt
Russian ballet dancer (1844–1917)
Valentin Zeglovsky
Russian ballet dancer (1908–1985)
Ninel Kurgapkina
Russian ballerina
David Lee Moroni
Canadian ballet dancer
Kirsten Ralov
Danish ballerina
Birgit Cullberg
Swedish ballet choreographer (1908-1999)
Bozgul Isoeva
Tajikistani ballet dancer
Young Soon Hue
South Korean ballet dancer
Itziar Mendizabal
Spanish ballet dancer
Ana Roje
ballet dancer 1909-1991
Ruth Abramovitsch Sorel
German choreographer, dancer, artistic director and teacher (1907–1974)
Thomas Forster
English ballet dancer
George Balanchine
American choreographer, dancer and ballet master (1904–1983)
Antonine Meunier
French choreographer (1877-1972)
Frederick Ashton
British dancer and choreographer (1904–1988)
Vladimir Bourmeister
Soviet choreographer, ballet master and ballet dancer (1904-1971)
Salvatore Viganò
Italian composer and dancer (1769-1821)
Carla Fracci
Italian ballet dancer and actress (1936–2021)
Christine Denniston
playwright, author and dance teacher
Alvin Ailey
African-American dancer, choreographer and activist (1931-1989)
Leigh Alderson
ballet dancer, model, and actor from Portadown, Northern Ireland.
Jennifer Alexander
ballerina (1972–2007)
Maniya Barredo
prima ballerina of the Philippines
Alla Osipenko
Soviet ballerina (1932–2025)
Christopher Hampson
British ballet dancer and choreographer
Olga Sapphire
Russian-Japanese ballerina and choreographer (1907-1981)
Connor Walsh
ballet dancer
Aurélie Dupont
French ballerina
Louise Frevert
Danish member of the Danish parliament
Elena Smirnova
Russian ballerina
Hélène Kirsova
Danish-born Australian ballerina
Lizzie Rode
ballet dancer 1933—
Rudolf Nureyev
Soviet ballet dancer and choreographer (1938–1993)
Bridget Breiner
American dancer
Deanne Bergsma
South African ballet dancer
Emily Molnar
Canadian ballet dancer and choreographer
Eileen Keegan
South African ballet dancer
Nina Dobrev
Bulgarian-Canadian actress
Jo Strømgren
Norwegian ballet dancer
Oleg Vinogradov
Russian choreographer and music educator
De Lafontaine
French ballet dancer
Konstantin Sergeyev
Russian dancer (1910-1992)
Gelsey Kirkland
American ballet dancer (born 1952)
George Verdak
American ballet dancer and director
Jerome Robbins
American choreographer and director (1918–1998)
Francisco Bosch
Spanish actor and dancer
Diana Adams
American ballerina and ballet teacher (1926-1993)
Charles-Alexis Desgagnés
performing artist in Canada
Babette Cochois
French writer and ballerina
Kira Bousloff
Russian-Australian ballet dancer
Vanessa Harwood
Canadian ballet dancer, choreographer, artistic director, teacher, actor
Sandra Madgwick
English ballerina
Monique Sand
ballet dancer 1944—
Michaela DePrince
Sierra Leonean-American ballet dancer (1995–2024)
Carlos Acosta
ballet dancer
Bai Shuxiang
Chinese ballet dancer
Young-jae Jung
South Korean ballet dancer
Giovanni Galzerani
Italian ballet dancer and choreographer
Joyce Cuoco
American ballet dancer
Martha Irmler
19th century German ballet dancer
Jamie Bell
English actor (born 1986)
Josephine Sainte-Claire
French ballet dancer
Didy Veldman
Dutch choreographer
Evgenia Pavlovna Sokolova
Russian ballet dancer (1850-1925)
Marjorie Hollinshed
ballet dancer and teacher (b. 1905, d. 1995)
Amalia Hernández Navarro
Mexican ballet dancer and choreographer (1917-2000)
Bernara Karieva
Soviet ballet dancer and ballet master
Rita Sangalli
Italian ballet dancer (1849–1909)
Sharon Farrell
American actress (1940–2023)
Didi Carli
Argentinian ballet dancer
Yumiko Takeshima
Japanese ballet dancer
Yekaterina Shchelkanova
Russian singer, actress and dancer
Ivan Vasiliev
Russian ballet dancer, choreographer
Eleonora Cassano
Argentine ballet dancer and teacher
Wilhelmina Frankfurt
American ballerina
Alexandra Radius
ballet dancer
Sonia Santiago
Spanish ballet dancer and music educator
Carlos Eduardo Gavito
Argentine tango dancer (1942-2005)
Margot Lander
Danish ballet dancer
Roman Jasinski
Polish ballet dancer (1907–1991)
Ray Barra
American ballet dancer
John Rich
British theatre producer
Magdaléna Zappe
stage actor and dancer.
Tamara Toumanova
Russian ballet dancer (1919-1996)
Renée Weibel
Swiss actors
Elsa Maria Sylvestersson
Finnish ballet dancer (1924–1996)
Pacita Madrigal-Warns
Filipina ballet dancer and politician (1915–2008)
Ann Marie DeAngelo
American dancer
Aérea Negrot
Venezuelan singer and producer
Anna Sophia Holmstedt
Swedish actor and ballerina
Özge Ulusoy
Turkish fashion model (born 1982)
Dorothie Littlefield
American ballet dancer (1912-1953)
Bubusara Beyshenalieva
Kyrgyzstani ballet dancer (1926-1973)
Twyla Tharp
American dancer and choreographer
Felia Doubrovska
Russian ballet dancer (1896-1981)
Margaret Illmann
Australian ballerina
Jacques d'Amboise
American dancer and choreographer (1934-2021)
Anastasia Stashkevich
Russian ballet dancer
Marietta Bonfanti
American ballet dancer (1845–1921)
Larissa Kaur
Estonian dancer (born 1941)
Mary Paischeff
Finnish ballet dancer (1899–1975)
Vera Krasovskaya
ballet critic and historian (1915–1999)
Yuri Vladimirov
Russian ballet dancer (1942–2025)
Josette Amiel
French ballet dancer and dance teacher
Tracy Li
South African ballet dancer