Alvin Ailey – modern choreographer
Alicia Alonso – great Cuban prima ballerina assoluta
Elena Andreianova – considered the outstanding Russian ballerina of the romantic genre
Gasparo Angiolini – Italian ballet dancer, choreograph and theoretician
Ann-Margret (no surname) – Swedish-American dancer, actress, and singer in the motion pictures. See Viva Las Vegas.
Frederick Ashton – British ballet dancer and choreographer
Adele Astaire – American Broadway dancer and singer, Fred Astaire's dance partner from 1905 through 1931
Fred Astaire – American film and Broadway dancer, choreographer, singer and actor
George Balanchine – choreographer credited for bridging classical and modern ballet
Ashley Banjo – choreographer and leader of Diversity (dance troupe)
Marie Barch - (1744-1827), first native Danish ballerina
Mikhail Baryshnikov – Russian ballet dancer
Vytautas Beliajus – Lithuanian-American, considered the father of international folk dance
Hanna Berger – German-Austrian dancer and resistance fighter
Hannelore Bey – German ballet dancer
Gertrud Bodenwieser – Austrian dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and pioneer of modern dance
Roberto Bolle – Italian principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre
Antoine Bournonville – French ballet dancer
August Bournonville – Danish ballet dancer and choreographer
Julie Bournonville – ballet dancer
Julio Bocca – Argentine ballet dancer
Kent Boyd – American teen dancing sensation. Runner up of So You Think You Can Dance (U.S. season 7). Styles – Contemporary jazz, Broadway
James Brown – African American dancer, entertainer, singer, musician and songwriter
Erik Bruhn – Danish ballet dancer and choreographer
Cheryl Burke – American Ballroom & Latin Dancer
Darcey Bussell – British ballet dancer
Rita Cadillac – Brazilian dancer and singer
Leslie Caron – French-born ballet dancer and American motion picture actress
Yvonne Cartier – British ballet dancer, mime and teacher
Irene Castle – ballroom dancer
Vernon Castle – ballroom dancer
Vakhtang Chabukiani – ballet dancer
Cyd Charisse – American ballet and film dancer
The Clark Brothers – tap dancers
Alina Cojocaru – Romanian ballet dancer
Deborah Colker – Brazilian writer, theater director, dancer and choreographer
Calico Cooper – American film actress/dancer, daughter of Alice Cooper
Misty Copeland – American ballet dancer
Angel Corella – Spanish premier danseur
Joaquín Cortés – Spanish ballet dancer and choreographer
John Cranko – British ballet dancer and choreographer
Dick Crum – American prominent folk dance teacher
Merce Cunningham – choreographer
Katherine Dunham – pioneer of black dance, anthropologist, dancer, choreographer, creator of the Dunham Technique
Sophie Daguin – ballet mistress and ballerina
Dan Dailey – American motion picture actor and dancer
Jean Dauberval – French dancer and choreographer
Louis Deland – ballet master, ballet dancer, choreographer
Gaby Deslys – French ballroom dancer and actress
Charles-Louis Didelot – French dancer and choreographer
Anton Dolin – English ballet dancer and choreographer
Anthony Dowell – English ballet dancer and choreographer
Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo a.k.a. "Nappytabs" – dance teachers, choreographers, and creative directors
Isadora Duncan – mother of Modern Dance
Irina Dvorovenko – Ukrainian ballet dancer
Fanny Elssler – Austrian ballet dancer
Andre Eglevsky – Russian – American ballet dancer and teacher, performed in Charles Chaplin's film: Limelight
Suzanne Farrell – ballet dancer
Jane Farwell – folk dance teacher
Marie Favart – French ballet dancer
Lorena Feijóo – Cuban ballet dancer
Lorna Feijóo – Cuban ballet dancer
Michel Fokine – Russian choreographer
Margot Fonteyn – foremost British ballerina and assoluta
Bob Fosse – American dancer and musical theater choreographer
Alina Frasa – Finnish ballet dancer and choreographer
Anine Frölich – Danish ballerina
Louis Gallodier – ballet master and choreographer
Asen Gavrilov – Bulgarian ballet dancer and choreographer
Mitzi Gaynor – American Motion Picture 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
Yvonne Georgi – German ballet dancer
Elizaveta Gerdt – Russian dancer and teacher
Pavel Gerdt – "Prince of St Petersburg stage"
Ailes Gilmour – Early Martha Graham dancer, socialist activist, and sister of Isamu Noguchi
Alexander Godunov – Russian dancer who defected to the West
Jeffrey Golladay – American ballet dancer
Chachi Gonzales – American hip-hop dancer
"Ginger and Fred" – Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire
Betty Grable – American Motion Picture actress and dancer
Martha Graham – American dancer and choreographer
Yury Grigorovich – Russian dancer and choreographer
Fabio Grossi – Italian ballet dancer
MC Hammer – American hip hop dancer, rapper and choreographer
Mata Hari – Dutch born dancer, courtesan and alleged spy
Evelyn Hart – ballet dancer
Heike Hennig – German dancer and choreographer
Rita Hayworth – American film dancer and actress
Robert Helpmann – ballet dancer
Audrey Hepburn – ballerina and movie star
Laurent Hilaire – French ballet dancer, ballet master and associate director of the Paris Opera Ballet
Hedda Hjortsberg – ballet dancer
Hilde Holger – Austro-British expressionist dancer, choreographer, and pioneer of physically integrated dance
Anna Sophia Holmstedt – ballet dancer
Dulcie Howes – South African ballet dancer and founder of Cape Town City Ballet
Guru Chandrasekharan – Indian dancer
Sterling Hyltin – New York City ballet principal
Melissa Hough – Houston ballet principal
Janet Jackson – American dancer, choreographer, actor and singer
Michael Jackson – American dancer, choreographer, singer and entertainer
Rowena Jackson – New Zealand prima ballerina of the Royal Ballet
Zizi Jeanmaire – French ballet dancer
Karen Kain – Canadian prima ballerina
Vera Karalli – ballet dancer and actress
Gene Kelly – American film and stage dancer, choreographer, singer, actor and film director
Farah Khan – Indian Bollywood choreographer and film maker
Saroj Khan – Indian Bollywood choreographer
Michael Kidd – American Broadway and film choreographer and dancer
Gelsey Kirkland – former legendary American Ballet Theatre and Principal dancer with the New York City Ballet
Maria Kochetkova – principal dancer with the San Francisco Ballet
Gertrud Kraus – Israeli pioneer of modern dance
Mathilde Kschessinska – second prima ballerina assoluta
Rudolf Laban – choreographer, inventor of Labanotation
Jean-Baptiste Landé – founder of the Russian ballet
Louise Lecavalier – icon of Canadian contemporary dance
Pierina Legnani – first prima ballerina assoluta
Lawrence Leritz – American dancer and choreographer
Tracy Li – Chinese ballet dancer who is a senior principal in the Cape Town City Ballet, South Africa
Serge Lifar – Ukrainian ballet dancer and choreographer
Maude Lloyd – South African ballerina and dance critic
Jennifer Lopez – American (Puerto Rican descent) dancer, singer and actress
Lydia Lopokova – Russian ballet dancer
Marianna Malińska (1767–fl.1797) – first native ballerina in Poland
Natalia Makarova – Russian ballet dancer
William Matons – WPA era 1930s modern dancer and choreographer, known later during Calypso craze as Calypso Joe, and later still as General Hershy Bar
Sabrina Matthews – Canadian ballet choreographer and former ballet dancer
Vrushika Mehta – Indian contemporary dancer and television actress
Shantanu Maheshwari – Indian dancer, choreographer and actor
Sulamith Messerer – founder of Japanese ballet
Jo Mihaly – German dancer and writer
Ann Miller – American tap dancer, singer, and actress, especially in motion pictures
Arthur Mitchell – American artistic director, educator, choreographer and dancer
Shakti Mohan - Indian Contemporary dancer and winner of Dance India Dance 2
Arthur Murray – famous dance instructor and businessman, known for the Arthur Murray Dance Studios franchise
Baisali Mohanty – Indian classical dancer and choreographer
Gillian Murphy – principal ballet dancer for the American Ballet Theatre
Gene Nelson – American motion picture dancer, actor and television director
Nicholas Brothers – African American dancing brothers (Fayard and Harold ) known for their highly acrobatic techniques
Vaslav Nijinsky – Russian ballet dancer and choreographer
Ivan Novikoff – ballet master, founder of Novikoff School of Russian-American Ballet
Rudolf Nureyev – Russian ballet dancer
Nadia Nerina – South African ballet dancer
Ena Noël – Australian children's author and ballet dancer
Charlotta Norberg – Swedish ballerina
Marianela Nuñez – Royal Ballet ballerina
Donald O'Connor – American dancer, singer & actor
Simona Orinska – only butoh artist in Latvia & a multidisciplinary artist – contemporary dancer, poet, director and choreographer of many art projects. She is also a Dance Therapy or Dance Movement Therapy practitioner.
Maria Palmer – Austrian-born American actress and dancer
Hermes Pan – film choreographer, especially in collaboration with Fred Astaire
Merle Park – Zimbabwean ballerina at the Royal Ballet
Anna Pavlova – legendary Russian prima ballerina, who brought ballet to the world
Rosie Perez – American (Afro-Puerto Rican descent) dancer, choreographer, actress and director
Marius Petipa – choreographer who created the classical ballet
Maya Plisetskaya – prima ballerina assoluta of the Bolshoi Ballet from 1960 to 1990
Olga Preobrajenska – Russian dancer and teacher
Juliet Prowse – South Africas – American dancer, actress, and singer in many motion pictures. See G.I. Blues, which also starred Elvis Presley
Eleanor Powell – American actress and dancer of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her exuberant solo tap dancing
David Poole – South African ballet dancer and ballet master at Cape Town City Ballet
Prabhu Deva – Indian dancer and choreographer
Brian Puspos – American hip-hop dancer, choreographer
Daniel Rajna – South African ballet dancer, currently a principal in the Cape Town City Ballet
Tina Ramirez – founder and artistic director of Ballet Hispanico
Moon Ribas – choreographer with cybernetic sensor attached to her body that allows her to feel earthquakes.
Ginger Rogers – American film and stage dancer, singer and actress, most remembered as partner of Fred Astaire.
Pedro Romeiras – dancer gold medal winner 1982 II Prix Français de la Danse
Gunhild Rosén – Swedish ballerina, ballet master and choreographer
Remo D'Souza – Indian Bollywood choreographer
Raghav Juyal – unique dancer in India, known for croax style, choreographer, dancer
Ruth St. Denis – American dancer who tried to fuse Modern Dance with Egyptian and east Asian ideas. Famously in collaboration with her partner Ted Shawn.
Olga Sandberg – (born 1844) Swedish ballerina
Margrethe Schall – ballerina
Anders Selinder – ballet master and choreographer
Ted Shawn – 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
Teresa Simas – Portuguese dancer and choreographer
Mary Skeaping – British ballerina
Charlotte Slottsberg – ballet dancer
Yuri Soloviev – soloist of the Kirov Theatre
Phyllis Spira-Boyd – South African ballet dancer
Lynn Seymour – Canadian ballet dancer
Sonia Osorio – Ballet de Colombia founder
Uday Shankar (December 8, 1900 – September 26, 1977) (Bengali: উদয় শংকর) – pioneer of modern dance in India, and a world-renowned Indian dancer and choreographer, was most known for adapting Western theatrical techniques to traditional Indian classical dance, imbued with elements of Indian classical, folk, and tribal dance, thus laying the roots of modern Indian dance, which he later popularized in India, Europe, and the United States in the 1920s and 1930s.
Lisa Steier – Swedish ballerina
Shiamak Davar – Indian choreographer
Paul Taylor – American choreographer
Marie Taglioni – Italian ballet dancer
Twyla Tharp – American dancer and choreographer
Emmanuel Thibault – (born 1974) dancer, Paris Opera Ballet
Lisa Joann Thompson – (born 1969) Warrior Girl, Laker Girl, Fly Girl, and Motown Live Dancer
Mark Tompkins – (born 1954) American-born French artist, dancer and choreographer of contemporary dance
Tamara Toumanova – (1919–1997) one of Balanchine's three "Baby Ballerinas"
Elizabeth Triegaardt – South African ballerina and current director of Cape Town City Ballet
Roger Tully – (born 1928) dancer, teacher
Galina Ulanova (1910–1998) – great Soviet prima ballerina assoluta
Agrippina Vaganova – founder of Vaganova method
Vera-Ellen – American Broadway and film dancer and actress
Gwen Verdon – Broadway dancer and actress
Ben Vereen – Tony Award winning, Emmy Award nominated actor, dancer and singer
Dame Ninette de Valois – founder of the Royal Ballet of London
Anastasia Volochkova – Russian prima ballerina
Cilli Wang – Austrian-born Dutch dancer, performer and theater maker
Maddie Ziegler – American dancer
Gerald Arpino, Jean Dauberval, Robert de Warren, Sergei Diaghilev, Robert Joffrey, Louis XIV, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Catherine de' Medici, Marie Rambert, Ninette de Valois,
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, Vaslav Nijinsky, Bronislava Nijinska, Jean-Georges Noverre, Rudolf Nureyev, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa, Roland Petit,
Jerome Robbins, Filippo Taglioni, Antony Tudor, Robert de Warren,
Carlos Acosta, Alicia Alonso, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Maxim Beloserkovsky, Jeremie Belingard, Ashley Bouder, Ann-Margret, Leslie Caron, Cyd Charisse, Juliet Prowse, Erik Bruhn, Fernando Bujones, Darcey Bussell, Jose Manuel Carreno, Fanny Cerito, Vakhtang Chabukiani, 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, Evelyn Hart, Rex Harrington, Melissa Hayden, Paloma Herrera, Laurent Hilaire, Greta Hodgkinson, Rowena Jackson, Karen Kain, Allegra Kent, Julie Kent, Darci Kistler, Mathilde Kschessinska, Johan Kobborg, Maria Kochetkova, Maria Kowroski, Pierina Legnani, Manuel Legris, Lawrence Leritz, Agnes Letestu, Emma Livry, Joaquín De Luz, Vladimir Malakhov, Alicia Markova, José Martínez, Patricia McBride, Gillian Murphy, Kyra Nichols, Peter Naumann, Nadia Nerina, Vaslav Nijinsky, Marianela Nunez, Rudolf Nureyev, Anna Pavlova, Élisabeth Platel, Maya Plisetskaya, Olga Preobrajenska, 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, Uliana Lopatkina Jennifer Butler Svetlana Zakharova,
Thoinot Arbeau, Cyril Atanassoff, George Balanchine, Pierre Beauchamp, Claude Bessy, Carlo Blasis, Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky, August Bournonville, Enrico Cecchetti, Raoul-Auger Feuillet, Elisabeth Gerdt, Rosella Hightower, Stanley Holden, Victor Kanevsky (dancer), Gelsey Kirkland, Attilio Labis, Nicolai Legat, Sulamith Messerer, Peter Naumann,
Jules Perrot, Domenico da Piacenza, Anna Pavlova, Olga Preobrajenska, 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
