The Most Famous
Dancers from Netherlands
This page contains a list of the greatest Dutchs Dancers. The pantheon dataset contains 116 Dancers, 2 of which were born in Netherlands. This makes Netherlands the birth place of the 11th most number of Dancers behind Denmark and Canada.
Top 2 Dancers
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Dutchs Dancers of all time. This list of famous Dutchs Dancers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1
Mata Hari
1876 - 1917
HPI 82.5178 langsMata Hari was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was executed by firing squad for espionage.
- #2
Hans van Manen
1932 - 2025
HPI 58.3718 langsHans van Manen, a Dutch ballet dancer, choreographer, and photographer, was most famous for creating over 150 innovative contemporary...Read moreShow less
Hans van Manen, a Dutch ballet dancer, choreographer, and photographer, was most famous for creating over 150 innovative contemporary ballets characterized by refined simplicity, musical precision, and explorations of human relationships, earning him international recognition as one of the grand masters of modern ballet and nicknames like the "Mondrian of dance."
