54 French female dancers

Émilienne d'Alençon was a French dancer, actress, and courtesan.

Marie Allard (1742–1802) was a French ballerina. She debuted in the Paris Opera in 1761.

Amélie Marie Antoinette Legallois was a French dancer.

Jane Avril was a French can-can dancer made famous by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec through his paintings. Extremely thin, "given to jerky movements and sudden contortions", she was nicknamed La Mélinite, after an explosive.

Anne Régina Badet was a French comedic actress, dancer, and star of the Ópera-Comique de Paris.

Martine Barrat is a French photographer, actress, dancer and writer born in Oran, Algeria, and raised in France. A dancer and actress, Martine Barrat was discovered by Ellen Stewart at an international dance festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. "LaMaMa", as Stewart was known, then sent her a plane ticket to perform in her theater, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club on the Lower East Side of Manhattan; Barrat arrived in the United States in June 1968.

Priscilla Betti, formerly known as simply Priscilla, is a French singer, dancer and actress. She released her first single at the age of 12, and has released five albums. In 2008–2011 she played the main part in the French musical TV series Chante!.

Anne-Françoise Bias, known as Fanny Bias, was a dancer at the Paris Opera from 1807 to 1825. She was one of the first dancers to use the pointe technique.

Émilie Bigottini was a French dancer of Italian ancestry.

Emmanuelle Bouaziz is a French actress, dancer and singer.

Sofia Boutella is an Algerian-French actress, model, and dancer.

Antoinette Olympe Bradna was a French dancer and actress, who emigrated to the United States where she lived for the rest of her life.

Vanessa Cailhol is a French actress, dancer and singer, born in Toulouse.

Leslie Claire Margaret Caron is a French-American actress, dancer and writer. She is the recipient of various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, two BAFTA Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards.

Céline Céleste-Elliott, known professionally as Madame Céleste, was a French dancer and actress who enjoyed great success on the London stage and during her four tours of America. She was also later involved in theatrical management. On her retirement from the stage she returned to Paris where she died in 1882.

Cha-U-Kao was a French entertainer who performed at the Moulin Rouge and the Nouveau Cirque in the 1890s. Her stage name was also the name of a boisterous popular dance, similar to the can-can, which came from the French words "chahut", meaning "noise" and "chaos". She was depicted in a series of paintings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Cha-U-Kao soon became one of his favorite models. The artist was fascinated by this woman who dared to choose the classic male profession of clowning and was not afraid to openly declare that she was a lesbian.

Jeanne Chasles was a French dancer in the Belle Époque period who later became a noted choreographer for the Opéra Comique and dance instructor at the National Conservatoire. Interested in collecting memorabilia on the history of dance, her collection became an important part of the archives of the National Library of France. In 1931, she was honored as a knight in the Legion of Honour.

Rafaëlle Cohen is a French actress, dancer and singer. She is best known for starring in Le Bal des Vampires, the musical directed by Roman Polanski at the Theatre Mogador in Paris in 2014-2015.

Davina Delor is a French dancer, choreographer, writer, and famous for her popular TV show Gym Tonic who adopted monkhood as a Buddhist nun in 2004 after meeting the Dalai Lama. After ordination, she changed her name to Gelek Drolkar. She converted her country home at Haims into a Buddhist monastery, and along with three other nuns, teaches Buddhism to students and lay persons. She has published a number of books on yoga and Buddhism, one of which is titled Le bonheur selon Bouddha which explains the precepts of Buddhism.

Bintou Dembélé is a dancer and a choreographer who is recognized as one of the pioneer figure of Hip Hop dance in France. After having danced more than thirty years in the Hip Hop world, Bintou Dembélé is the artistic director of her own dance compagny Rualité since 2002. Her work explores the issue of the memory of the body through the prisms of the colonial and post-colonial French history.

Gaby Deslys was a singer and actress during the early 20th century. She selected her name for her stage career. It is a contraction of Gabrielle of the Lillies. During the 1910s she was exceedingly popular worldwide, making $4,000 a week in the United States alone. She performed several times on Broadway, at the Winter Garden Theater, and performed in a show with a young Al Jolson. Her dancing was so popular that The Gaby Glide was named for her.

Lucette Destouches was a French dancer. She was married to the writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline until his death in 1961.

De-arra Sylla Diongue, better known as Diarra Sylla or simply Diarra, is a French-Senegalese singer, dancer and model. She is best known for winning first place in the 2016 Sen P'tit Gallé competition. A former member of the global pop group Now United, she departed from the group in September 2020.

Tatiana Dokoudovska was a French ballet dancer, choreographer and ballet master of Russian origin.

Nathalie Fitzjames was a Romantic era French ballerina who was especially admired in Italy. Fitzjames appeared in La Resemblance at the Her Majesty's Theatre in London in May 1838, receiving the following review of her first appearance:"She resembles, both in expression, figure, and style of dancing, our favourite of three years past, Pauline Leroux. Her pretensions as an artiste as not so high as those of Fanny Elssler or Duvernay, but she has been taught in the best school, and in the present state of the ballet she must be considered a decided acquisition here. She is full of spirits and gaiety, and flies about the stage in a manner that is very captivating. The dancing of her feet is near perfection, but her arms are not moved with freedom, and she is deficient to a certain extent both in dignity and grace."

La Goulue, was the stage name of Louise Weber, a French can-can dancer who was a star of the Moulin Rouge, a popular cabaret in the Pigalle district of Paris, near Montmartre. Weber became known as La Goulue because as an adolescent, she was known for guzzling cabaret patrons' drinks while dancing. She also was referred to as the Queen of Montmartre.

Marie-Antoinette Guy-Stéphan was a French dancer who triumphed at Spanish theaters between 1843 and 1851.

Fauve Hautot is a French dancer and choreographer.

Nyota Inyoka, sometimes billed as Princess Nyota Inyoka, was a French-Indian dancer and choreographer.

Margaret Leibovici OBE, known as Miss Bluebell, was an Irish dancer who was the founder of the Bluebell Girls dance troupe.

Marcelle Lender was a French singer, dancer and entertainer made famous in paintings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Félicia Mallet (1863–1928) was a French comedian, singer and pantomime artist.

Mariquita, often referred to as Madame Mariquita, (1838–1922) was an Algerian-born dancer who became a successful choreographer and ballet mistress at various theatres in Paris from the 1870s until 1920.

Nicole Maurey was a French actress, who appeared in 65 film and television productions between 1945 and 1997.

Cléopâtre-Diane de Mérode was a French dancer of the Belle Époque.

Germaine Mitti, also known as Germaine Mitty, was a French dancer who appeared with the Ziegfeld Follies and in vaudeville revues of the 1920s.

Élisabeth-Céleste Venard, better known by her stage name Céleste Mogador and often referred to simply as Mogador, was a French dancer and writer. She was also the countess of Chabrillan.

Ratna "Elie" Mohini was a Javanese dancer who was the wife of the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson from 1937 to 1967.

Liliane Montevecchi was a French-Italian actress, dancer, and singer.

Nina Myral, stage name of Eugénie, Hortense Gruel, was a 20th-century French actress, dancer and singer.

Hellé Nice was a French model, dancer, and a motor racing driver who competed in numerous minor Grands Prix and other races between 1928 and 1939, whose racing career was impaired by a serious crash in 1936 and whose attempt to resume racing after World War 2 was undermined by an accusation - unproven - of collaboration with the Nazis.

Armen Ohanian, born Sophia Pirboudaghian was an Armenian dancer, actress, writer, and translator.

Gina Palerme was a French actress and dancer.

Marie-Claude Pietragalla is a French dancer and choreographer.

Wilfride Piollet was a French ballerina and choreographer. She was born in Saint-Rambert-d'Albon. Her philosophy of dance and her research led to the publication of several books. Piollet joined the Paris Opera Ballet company in 1960. She gained the rank "coryphée" in 1963, "sujet" in 1964, soloist in 1966, and was promoted to principal dancer (étoile) in 1969. In 1973, Nouvelle lune c-à-d was created for her retirement of the Paris Opera. Invited as a guest by Rudolf Nureyev, she danced at the Paris Opera until 1990, the year when Jean Guizerix left. At the Paris Opera and worldwide, she performed the classical, neo-classical and contemporary repertory, and from the 1980s, the Baroque and Renaissance ones. She ended her dance career in 2003 with a piece on Isadora Duncan's dances studied with Madeleine Lytton, and performed with Jean Guizerix.

Liane de Pougy, was a Folies Bergère vedette and dancer renowned as one of Paris's most beautiful and notorious courtesans.

Yvonne Printemps was a French singer and actress who achieved stardom on stage and screen in France and internationally.

Amelia Marguerite Badel was a French dancer. Credited for inventing the can-can, her acme occurred from 1858 to 1861. Her stage name, Rigolboche, is a slang term formed from the word "funny" and the suffix boche designating a "joker" or a very funny person.

Viviane Romance was a French actress.

Jeanne Germaine Berthe Agnès Souret was a French actress and dancer who was the winner of the inaugural Miss France competition in 1920.

Julie Talma, born Louise-Julie Careau, was a French dancer at the Paris Opera who became a courtesan in the years before the French Revolution. She had three sons by three different fathers. She used the gifts from her protectors to make a small fortune in real estate speculation. She married the well-known tragic actor François-Joseph Talma a few days before giving birth to twin sons. Her husband was unfaithful and ruined her. They separated and eventually divorced. Julie Talma was charming, intelligent, strong-willed, rational and a firm republican. She held an influential salon before and during the revolution and at the start of Napoleon's rise to power, and became a close friend of Benjamin Constant. Their lengthy correspondence has been preserved.

Natalia Vladimirovna Trouhanowa, also seen as Natalia Trouhanova, Natalia Trukhanova, or Natacha Trouhanowa-Ignatieff, was a French dancer born in Kiev.

Adorée Via Villany (1891–?) was the stage name for a French dancer and choreographer.

Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh is a choreographer and director of Le Phare, Centre Chorégraphique National du Havre Haute-Normandie.