The Most Famous
DANCERS from South Africa
This page contains a list of the greatest South African Dancers. The pantheon dataset contains 116 Dancers, 1 of which were born in South Africa. This makes South Africa the birth place of the 21st most number of Dancers behind Ecuador, and Austria.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary South African Dancers of all time. This list of famous South African Dancers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. John Cranko (1927 - 1973)
With an HPI of 57.87, John Cranko is the most famous South African Dancer. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
John Cyril Cranko (15 August 1927 – 26 June 1973) was a South African ballet dancer and choreographer with the Royal Ballet and the Stuttgart Ballet.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as South African dancers born between 1927 and 1927. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased South African dancers include John Cranko. As of April 2024, 1 new South African dancers have been added to Pantheon including John Cranko.
