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Top 20 best-known dancers in the world · 🇺🇸 Estados Unidos

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Por qué estos 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

    Michael Jackson

    American singer, songwriter, record producer, and dancer (1958–2009)

    322 languages

  2. 2

    Isadora Duncan

    Isadora Duncana

    American dancer and choreographer (1877–1927)

    108 languages

  3. 3

    Janet Jackson

    American singer, songwriter, dancer and actress (born 1966)

    104 languages

  4. 4

    Fred Astaire

    American dancer, choreographer, actor, and singer (1899–1987)

    102 languages

  5. 5

    Joséphine Baker

    Josephine Baker

    American-born French dancer, singer and actress (1906–1975)

    98 languages

  6. 6

    James Cagney

    American actor and dancer (1899–1986)

    92 languages

  7. 7

    Gene Kelly

    American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer (1912–1996)

    87 languages

  8. 8

    Debbie Reynolds

    American actress, singer, and dancer (1932–2016)

    86 languages

  9. 9

    Patrick Swayze

    American actor, producer, singer and dancer (1952–2009)

    81 languages

  10. 10

    Ginger Rogers

    American actress and dancer (1911–1995)

    80 languages

  11. 11

    Channing Tatum

    American actor, dancer and model (born 1980)

    68 languages

  12. 12

    Mijaíl Barýshnikov

    Mikhail Baryshnikov

    Latvian-American dancer, choreographer and actor

    65 languages

  13. 13

    Paula Abdul

    American singer, dancer, choreographer, actress, and television personality

    64 languages

  14. 14

    Cyd Charisse

    American dancer and actress (1921–2008)

    59 languages

  15. 15

    Bob Fosse

    American choreographer, dancer, and director (1927–1987)

    59 languages

  16. 16

    Martha Graham

    American dancer and choreographer (1894–1991)

    57 languages

  17. 17

    Lena Horne

    American singer, actress, dancer and activist (1917–2010)

    57 languages

  18. 18

    Danny Kaye

    American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian (1911–1987)

    57 languages

  19. 19

    Leslie Caron

    French and American actress and dancer (born 1931)

    53 languages

  20. 20

    Gregory Hines

    American actor and dancer (1946–2003)

    52 languages

Cómo se mide

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).

Referencias

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