Top 20 best-known dancers in the world
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Pourquoi ces 20
Ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about the person (Wikidata site links): a measure of how widely known someone is around the world, not of skill. It favours people from the past and from countries with many Wikipedia editions. Dancers are people Wikidata lists as a dancer or ballet dancer whose one-line English description names dance (dancer, ballerina, choreographer). That keeps entertainers known for dancing, such as Michael Jackson, Fred Astaire and Josephine Baker, next to ballet and modern-dance artists, and leaves out actors and singers who only danced now and then.
Calculé à partir des régions ci-dessous : les 20 meilleurs de toutes.
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Michael Jackson
American singer, songwriter, record producer, and dancer (1958–2009)
322 languages · 🇺🇸 États-Unis
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2
Isadora Duncan
Isadora Duncana
American dancer and choreographer (1877–1927)
108 languages · 🇺🇸 États-Unis
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Janet Jackson
American singer, songwriter, dancer and actress (born 1966)
104 languages · 🇺🇸 États-Unis
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Fred Astaire
American dancer, choreographer, actor, and singer (1899–1987)
102 languages · 🇺🇸 États-Unis
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5
Joséphine Baker
Josephine Baker
American-born French dancer, singer and actress (1906–1975)
98 languages · 🇺🇸 États-Unis
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Gene Kelly
American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer (1912–1996)
87 languages · 🇺🇸 États-Unis
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Rudolf Noureev
Rudolf Nureyev
Soviet ballet dancer and choreographer (1938–1993)
74 languages · 🇦🇹 Autriche
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Larissa Latynina
Larisa Latynina
Soviet-Russian artistic gymnast and ballet dancer (born 1934)
69 languages · 🇷🇺 Russie
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Mikhaïl Barychnikov
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Latvian-American dancer, choreographer and actor
65 languages · 🇺🇸 États-Unis
Comment c'est mesuré
Wikidata: occupation dancer (Q5716684) or ballet dancer (Q805221), English description containing dancer, ballerina or choreographer, 12 or more site links; country of citizenship gives the drill-down (a person with two citizenships counts in both).
Références
- Wikidata query: dancers by Wikipedia language editions, Wikidata (CC0). Checked 2026-10-20 05:09 UTC.