The Most Famous
Dancers from Denmark
This page contains a list of the greatest Danish Dancers. The pantheon dataset contains 116 Dancers, 3 of which were born in Denmark. This makes Denmark the birth place of the 9th most number of Dancers behind United Kingdom and Germany.
Top 3 Danish Dancers
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Danish Dancers of all time. This list of famous Danish Dancers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1
August Bournonville
1805 - 1879
HPI 64.5824 langsDanish ballet master and choreographer
- #2
Louise Rasmussen
1815 - 1874
HPI 62.5517 langsDanish ballet dancer and actress; morganatic spouse of King Frederick VII of Denmark (1815-1874)
- #3
Lucile Grahn
1819 - 1907
HPI 58.6317 langsDanish ballet dancer (1819–1907)
Overlapping Lives
Which Dancers were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 3 most globally memorable Dancers since 1700.
