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Top 20 best-known dancers in the world · 🇷🇺 Russie

Ballet and dance artists, world > country

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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.

  1. 1

    Larissa Latynina

    Larisa Latynina

    Soviet-Russian artistic gymnast and ballet dancer (born 1934)

    69 languages

  2. 2

    Maïa Plissetskaïa

    Maya Plisetskaya

    Russian ballet dancer (1925-2015)

    67 languages

  3. 3

    Galina Oulanova

    Galina Ulanova

    Soviet ballet dancer (1910-1998)

    43 languages

  4. 4

    Svetlana Zakharova

    Ukrainian ballet dancer

    33 languages

  5. 5

    Natalia Makarova

    Soviet and American ballet dancer

    31 languages

  6. 6

    Igor Moïsseïev

    Igor Moiseyev

    Soviet dancer (1906–2007)

    29 languages

  7. 7

    Iouri Grigorovitch

    Yury Grigorovich

    Russian dancer and choreographer (1927—2025)

    29 languages

  8. 8

    Sergueï Polounine

    Sergei Polunin

    Ukrainian-born ballet dancer, actor and model

    28 languages

  9. 9

    Marina Semenova

    Marina Semyonova

    Soviet ballet dancer

    28 languages

  10. 10

    Ekaterina Maximova

    Russian ballet dancer (1939-2009)

    26 languages

  11. 11

    Olga Lepechinskaïa

    Olga Lepeshinskaya

    Soviet ballet dancer

    24 languages

  12. 12

    Natalia Bessmertnova

    Soviet prima ballerina (1941-2008)

    21 languages

  13. 13

    Vladimir Vassiliev

    Vladimir Vasiliev

    Soviet dancer

    19 languages

  14. 14

    Anastasia Volochkova

    Russian ballerina

    19 languages

  15. 15

    Nikolaï Tsiskaridzé

    Nikolay Tsiskaridze

    Russian ballet dancer

    18 languages

  16. 16

    Diana Vichneva

    Diana Vishneva

    ballet dancer

    17 languages

  17. 17

    Makhmud Esambayev

    Soviet actor and dancer

    17 languages

  18. 18

    Olga Smirnova

    Russian ballet dancer (1991-)

    17 languages

  19. 19

    Boris Moïsseïev

    Boris Moiseev

    Russian dancer, choreographer, singer, and actor

    17 languages

  20. 20

    Ouliana Lopatkina

    Ulyana Lopatkina

    Russian ballet dancer

    16 languages

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

  1. Wikidata query: dancers by Wikipedia language editions, Wikidata (CC0). Checked 2026-10-20 05:09 UTC.