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Top 20 best-known dancers in the world · 🇮🇳 भारत

Ballet and dance artists, world > country

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ये 20 ही क्यों

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

    हेमा मालिनी

    Hema Malini

    Indian actress, dancer, and politician

    70 languages

  2. 2

    प्रभू देवा

    Prabhu Deva

    Indian choreographer, film producer & actor

    38 languages

  3. 3

    जूनियर एनटिआर

    N. T. Rama Rao Jr.

    Indian actor, dancer, singer and television presenter (b. 1983)

    38 languages

  4. 4

    हेलन

    Helen

    Indian film actress and dancer of Anglo-Burmese descent

    36 languages

  5. 5

    रुक्मिणी देवी अरुंडेल

    Rukmini Devi Arundale

    Indian dancer and choreographer (1904–1986)

    34 languages

  6. 6

    मल्लिका साराभाई

    Mallika Sarabhai

    activist and Indian classical dancer from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

    34 languages

  7. 7

    ज़ोहरा सहगल

    Zohra Sehgal

    Indian actress and choreographer (1912–2014)

    31 languages

  8. 8

    सरोज खान

    Saroj Khan

    Indian dancer and choreographer (1948–2020)

    29 languages

  9. 9

    मृणालिनी साराभाई

    Mrinalini Sarabhai

    Indian classical dancer, choreographer and instructor (1918-2016)

    29 languages

  10. 10

    बिरजू महाराज

    Birju Maharaj

    Indian dancer (1938–2022)

    29 languages

  11. 11

    अरमान मलिक

    Armaan Malik

    Indian singer-songwriter, record producer, voice-over, performer, dancer and actor

    24 languages

  12. 12

    ऐश्वर्या रजनीकान्त धनुष

    Aishwarya R. Dhanush

    Indian classical dancer and playback singer

    23 languages

  13. 13

    यमनी कृष्णमूर्ति

    Yamini Krishnamurthy

    Indian dancer (1940–2024)

    23 languages

  14. 14

    बालासरस्वती

    Balasaraswati

    Indian dancer (1918-1984)

    23 languages

  15. 15

    सोनल मानसिंह

    Sonal Mansingh

    Indian Bharatanatyam and Odissi dancer

    22 languages

  16. 16 P

    प्रोतिमा बेदी

    Protima Bedi

    Indian model and dancer (1948-1998)

    20 languages

  17. 17

    रेमो डीसूजा

    Remo D'Souza

    Indian choreographer, actor and film director

    19 languages

  18. 18 D

    देबश्री रॉय

    Debashree Roy

    Indian actress, dancer, choreographer and animal rights activist

    19 languages

  19. 19

    वैभवी मर्चेंट

    Vaibhavi Merchant

    Indian actress and choreographer

    19 languages

  20. 20

    अमला शंकर

    Amala Shankar

    Indian dancer (1919-2020)

    19 languages

कैसे मापा गया

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).

संदर्भ

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