DANCER

Margot Fonteyn

1919 - 1991

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Dame Margaret Evelyn de Arias DBE (née Hookham; 18 May 1919 – 21 February 1991), known by the stage name Margot Fonteyn, was an English ballerina. She spent her entire career as a dancer with the Royal Ballet (formerly the Sadler's Wells Theatre Company), eventually being appointed prima ballerina assoluta of the company by Queen Elizabeth II. Beginning ballet lessons at the age of four, she studied in England and China, where her father was transferred for his work. Her training in Shanghai was with Russian expatriate dancer Georgy Goncharov, contributing to her continuing interest in Russian ballet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Margot Fonteyn has received more than 1,443,067 page views. Her biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Margot Fonteyn is the 12th most popular dancer (down from 10th in 2019), the 483rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 392nd in 2019) and the most popular British Dancer.

Margot Fonteyn was a ballerina who was born in London, England. She is most famous for her work with the Royal Ballet.

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Among DANCERS

Among dancers, Margot Fonteyn ranks 12 out of 116. Before her are Vaslav Nijinsky, Pina Bausch, Bobby Farrell, Marius Petipa, Marie Taglioni, and Maurice Béjart. After her are Mikhail Baryshnikov, Maya Plisetskaya, Jean-Georges Noverre, Martha Graham, Michel Fokine, and Tamara Karsavina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Margot Fonteyn ranks 17. Before her are Georgios Papadopoulos, Fausto Coppi, Desmond Doss, Walter Scheel, Lino Ventura, and Choi Kyu-hah. After her are Jack Palance, Matilde Camus, Nat King Cole, Hans-Joachim Marseille, Pierre Trudeau, and Gerhard Barkhorn. Among people deceased in 1991, Margot Fonteyn ranks 25. Before her are Frank Capra, Michael Landon, Marcel Lefebvre, Rajiv Gandhi, Oona O'Neill, and Arno Breker. After her are Henri Lefebvre, David Lean, Natalia Ginzburg, Max Frisch, Gunnar Gren, and Ragnar Granit.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Margot Fonteyn ranks 483 out of 8,785. Before her are G. E. Moore (1873), Muriel Spark (1918), Kate Winslet (1975), Robert Robinson (1886), Diana Rigg (1938), and Nick Mason (1944). After her are Joseph Lister (1827), John Smith (1580), John Dowland (1563), John Cleese (1939), Martin Amis (1949), and George Everest (1790).

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Among DANCERS In United Kingdom

Among dancers born in United Kingdom, Margot Fonteyn ranks 1. After her are Lindsay Kemp (1938), Alicia Markova (1910), Kenneth MacMillan (1929), Antony Tudor (1908), and Darcey Bussell (1969).

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