Famous Dancers

• Astaire, Fred

  Hollywood's most famous dancer

• Baker, Josephine

  The Black American singer/dancer famous in 1920s Paris

• Best, Ahmed

  Jar Jar Binks in The Phantom Menace

• Cohan, George M.

  "Mr. Broadway" and the composer of "Yankee Doodle Dandy"

• Davis, Sammy Jr.

  Singer of "The Candy Man"

• Duncan, Isadora

  Free-spirited modern dancer of the early 1900s

• Flatley, Michael

  The fleet-footed creator of Lord of the Dance

• Fosse, Bob

  The director and choreographer of the Broadway show Chicago

• Graham, Martha

  The modern dance choreographer who did Appalachian Spring

• Kelly, Gene

  The dancing star of Singin' In The Rain

• Monaco, Kelly

  Samantha "Sam" McCall on General Hospital

• Moreno, Rita

  Anita in the 1961 version of 'West Side Story'

• Nicholas Brothers, The

  Acrobatic tapdancers of the 1943 film Stormy Weather

• Reinking, Ann

  Fosse-influenced choreographer and star of Chicago

• Smirnoff, Karina

  The attractive Ukrainian dance partner from Dancing With the Stars

• Verdon, Gwen

  The original Lola in Broadway's Damn Yankees

• Vereen, Ben

  "Leading Player" in the Broadway show Pippin

See: Index by Occupation