- Alvin Ailey - ballet choreographer
- Nina Ananiashvili - ballet dancer
- Fred Astaire - an American film and Broadway ballroom dancer and actor.
- George Balanchine - a choreographer credited for bridging classical and modern ballet
- Mikhail Baryshnikov - Russian ballet dancer
- Irene Castle - ballroom dancer
- Vernon Castle - ballroom dancer
- Erik Bruhn - ballet dancer and choreographer
- Vakhtang Chabukiani - ballet dancer
- Merce Cunningham - choreographer
- Sergei Diaghilev - Russian ballet impressario
- Anton Dolin - English ballet dancer and choreographer
- Isadora Duncan - the Mother of Modern Dance
- Suzanne Farrell - ballet dancer
- Michael Fokin (Michel Fokine, Michael Fokine, Mikhail Fokin) a Russian choreographer
- Margot Fonteyn - ballet dancer
- Ginger and Fred are Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire.
- Martha Graham - American dancer and choreographer
- Evelyn Hart - ballet dancer
- Robert Helpmann - ballet dancer
- Zizi Jeanmaire - ballet dancer
- Karen Kain - ballet dancer
- Rudolf Laban - choreographer, inventor of Labanotation
- Arthur Mitchell - American artistic director, educator, choreographer and dancer
- Arthur Murray - a famous dance instructor and businessman, known for Arthur Murray Dance Studios franchise.
- Vaslav Nijinsky - Russian ballet dancer and choreographer
- Ivan Novikoff (1899 - 2002), ballet master, founder of Novikoff School of Russian-American Ballet
- Rudolf Nureyev - Russian ballet dancer
- Anna Pavlova - Russian ballet dancer
- Eleanor Powell - American actress and dancer of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her exuberant solo tap dancing.
- Ginger Rogers - American film ballroom dancer and actress, most remembered as partner of Fred Astaire.
- Paul Taylor - American choreographer
- Twyla Tharp - American dancer and choreographer
- Tamara Toumanova (1919-1997) (one of Balanchine's three "Baby Ballerinas")
- Galina Ulanova (1910-1988), Russian ballerina
- Dame Ninette de Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet of London
