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

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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

    Hema Malini

    हेमा मालिनी

    Indian actress, dancer, and politician

    70 languages

  2. 2

    Prabhu Deva Sundaram

    प्रभू देवा

    Indian choreographer, film producer & actor

    38 languages

  3. 3

    N. T. Rama Rao Jr.

    जूनियर एनटिआर

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

    38 languages

  4. 4

    Helen

    हेलन

    Indian film actress and dancer of Anglo-Burmese descent

    36 languages

  5. 5

    Rukmini Devi Arundale

    रुक्मिणी देवी अरुंडेल

    Indian dancer and choreographer (1904–1986)

    34 languages

  6. 6

    Mallika Sarabhai

    मल्लिका साराभाई

    activist and Indian classical dancer from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

    34 languages

  7. 7

    Zohra Sehgal

    ज़ोहरा सहगल

    Indian actress and choreographer (1912–2014)

    31 languages

  8. 8

    Saroj Khan

    सरोज खान

    Indian dancer and choreographer (1948–2020)

    29 languages

  9. 9

    Mrinalini Sarabhai

    मृणालिनी साराभाई

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

    29 languages

  10. 10

    Birju Maharaj

    बिरजू महाराज

    Indian dancer (1938–2022)

    29 languages

  11. 11

    Armaan Malik

    अरमान मलिक

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

    24 languages

  12. 12

    Aishwarya R. Dhanush

    ऐश्वर्या रजनीकान्त धनुष

    Indian classical dancer and playback singer

    23 languages

  13. 13

    Yamini Krishnamurthy

    यमनी कृष्णमूर्ति

    Indian dancer (1940–2024)

    23 languages

  14. 14

    Balasaraswati

    बालासरस्वती

    Indian dancer (1918-1984)

    23 languages

  15. 15

    Sonal Mansingh

    सोनल मानसिंह

    Indian Bharatanatyam and Odissi dancer

    22 languages

  16. 16 P

    Protima Bedi

    प्रोतिमा बेदी

    Indian model and dancer (1948-1998)

    20 languages

  17. 17

    Remo D'Souza

    रेमो डीसूजा

    Indian choreographer, actor and film director

    19 languages

  18. 18 D

    Debashree Roy

    देबश्री रॉय

    Indian actress, dancer, choreographer and animal rights activist

    19 languages

  19. 19

    Vaibhavi Merchant

    वैभवी मर्चेंट

    Indian actress and choreographer

    19 languages

  20. 20

    Amala Shankar

    अमला शंकर

    Indian dancer (1919-2020)

    19 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.