David Adams (dancer)W
David Adams (dancer)

David Adams, was a Canadian ballet dancer and a founding member of the National Ballet of Canada.

Elizabeth AndertonW
Elizabeth Anderton

Elizabeth Anderton is a retired British ballet dancer and director. After graduating from the Sadler's Wells School, in 1955 she joined the Sadler's Wells Opera Ballet. From 1957 to 1974 she worked at the Royal Ballet, becoming soloist in 1958 and principal in 1961. In 1976 she became involved with London Festival Ballet, first as teacher and guest dancer and later as assistant artistic director. She returned to the Royal Ballet in the 1990s.

Gary AvisW
Gary Avis

Gary Avis MBE is an English ballet dancer who is currently a Principal Character Artist and Senior Ballet Master with The Royal Ballet, London.

David BintleyW
David Bintley

Sir David Julian Bintley is an English former ballet dancer, the artistic director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet, and co-artistic director of the New National Theatre Tokyo ballet company.

Roberto BolleW
Roberto Bolle

Roberto Bolle is an Italian danseur. He is currently a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre and a principal dancer étoile at La Scala Theatre Ballet. Bolle also dances regularly as a guest artist with the world’s leading companies, including The Royal Ballet, the Mariinsky Ballet, the Bolshoi Ballet and the Paris Opera Ballet.

Jane BurnW
Jane Burn

Jane Burn is a British ballerina, formerly a first soloist at the Royal Ballet.

Gary BurneW
Gary Burne

Gary Burne was a Rhodesian dancer, ballet master, and choreographer who spent ten years with the Royal Ballet in England before moving to South Africa to dance with ballet companies in Johannesburg and Cape Town. He also danced for a period in Toronto, Canada.

Claire CalvertW
Claire Calvert

Claire Louise Calvert is an English ballet dancer and is a first soloist at the Royal Ballet.

Yuhui ChoeW
Yuhui Choe

Yuhui Choe is a Korean ballet dancer. She is a first soloist at The Royal Ballet.

John CrankoW
John Cranko

John Cyril Cranko was a South African born ballet dancer and choreographer with the Royal Ballet and the Stuttgart Ballet.

Anton DolinW
Anton Dolin

Sir Anton Dolin was an English ballet dancer and choreographer.

Moyra FraserW
Moyra Fraser

Moyra Fraser was an Australian-born English actress and ballet dancer, who is best known for playing Penny Johnson in the long-running sitcom As Time Goes By. Her sister was the actress Shelagh Fraser. She married author Douglas Sutherland, with whom she had a daughter, and Old Etonian Roger Lubbock, by whom she had two sons.

John Gilpin (dancer)W
John Gilpin (dancer)

John Brian Gilpin was a leading English ballet dancer and actor.

Beryl GreyW
Beryl Grey

Dame Beryl Elizabeth Grey, is a retired English ballet dancer.

Melissa HamiltonW
Melissa Hamilton

Melissa Hamilton is a Northern Irish ballet dancer and a First Soloist with the Royal Ballet, London.

Maria KochetkovaW
Maria Kochetkova

Maria Olegovna Kochetkova is a Russian ballet dancer. She was a principal dancer with the San Francisco Ballet between 2007 and 2018, and with the American Ballet Theatre between 2015 and 2017. After that, she became a freelance dancer for several years, before joining the Finnish National Ballet in the 2020/21 season.

Anya LindenW
Anya Linden

Anya Linden, Lady Sainsbury of Preston Candover is a retired English ballerina.

Gillian LynneW
Gillian Lynne

Dame Gillian Barbara Lynne, was an English ballerina, dancer, choreographer, actress, and theatre-television director, noted for her theatre choreography associated with two of the longest-running shows in Broadway history, Cats and The Phantom of the Opera. At age 87, she was made a DBE in the 2014 New Year Honours List.

Alicia MarkovaW
Alicia Markova

Dame Alicia Markova DBE was a British ballerina and a choreographer, director and teacher of classical ballet. Most noted for her career with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and touring internationally, she was widely considered to be one of the greatest classical ballet dancers of the twentieth century. She was the first British dancer to become the principal dancer of a ballet company and, with Dame Margot Fonteyn, is one of only two English dancers to be recognised as a prima ballerina assoluta. Markova was a founder dancer of the Rambert Dance Company, The Royal Ballet and American Ballet Theatre, and was co-founder and director of the English National Ballet.

Laurel MartynW
Laurel Martyn

Laurel Martyn was an Australian ballerina.

Pamela MayW
Pamela May

Pamela May OBE was a Trinidad-born British dancer and teacher of classical ballet. Most noted as one of the earliest members The Royal Ballet, she was regarded as a versatile dancer; dancing all the established 19th-century classical repertoire, and creating roles in new ballets by Ninette de Valois and Frederick Ashton. After retiring from professional ballet, she became a teacher at the Royal Ballet School, and also served as vice-president of the Royal Academy of Dance.

Itziar MendizabalW
Itziar Mendizabal

Itziar Mendizabal is a Spanish ballet dancer who has performed as a First Soloist with The Royal Ballet since 2010.

Kevin O'HareW
Kevin O'Hare

Kevin O'Hare is a British retired ballet dancer and current Director of The Royal Ballet. He succeeded Monica Mason in the role in 2012.

Anna Rose O'SullivanW
Anna Rose O'Sullivan

Anna Rose O'Sullivan is an English ballet dancer and is a first soloist at the Royal Ballet.

Samantha RaineW
Samantha Raine

Samantha Raine is a dance teacher and an English retired ballerina. She is the ballet mistress of the Royal Ballet, at the Royal Opera House, in London's Covent Garden, having previously been a soloist with the Company.

Derek RencherW
Derek Rencher

Derek Rencher was a British ballet dancer. A commanding figure among Royal Ballet character dancers for more than four decades, he was probably the most prolific performer in the company's history.

Gillian RevieW
Gillian Revie

Gillian Revie Macleod is a British ballerina. She was formerly a first soloist and later principal guest artist at the Royal Ballet, Covent Garden, and now heads the ballet school Classical Ballet 121 in Sydney.

Genesia RosatoW
Genesia Rosato

Genesia Rosato is a retired British ballerina. She was a principal character artist with the Royal Ballet, Covent Garden, where her career lasted four decades from 1976 to 2016.

Moira ShearerW
Moira Shearer

Moira Shearer King, Lady Kennedy, was an internationally renowned British ballet dancer and actress. She is best remembered for her performances in Powell and Pressburger's The Red Shoes (1948) and Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960).

Beatriz Stix-BrunellW
Beatriz Stix-Brunell

Beatriz Eugenia Stix-Brunell is an American ballet dancer. She is currently a First Soloist of The Royal Ballet.

Eric Underwood (dancer)W
Eric Underwood (dancer)

Eric Underwood is an American British ballet dancer, model and actor. He was a soloist with The Royal Ballet, and was one of the few black dancers in the company.

Graham Usher (dancer)W
Graham Usher (dancer)

Graham Usher (1938–1975) was a ballet dancer with the Royal Ballet.

Doreen WellsW
Doreen Wells

Doreen Patricia Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry is a British former ballet dancer.