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Rudolf Nureyev

1938 - 1993

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Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev (17 March 1938 – 6 January 1993) was a Soviet-born ballet dancer and choreographer. Nureyev is widely regarded as the most preeminent male ballet dancer of his generation as well as one of the greatest ballet dancers of all time. Nureyev was born on a Trans-Siberian train near Irkutsk, Siberia, Soviet Union, to a Tatar family. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudolf Nureyev has received more than 4,720,527 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Rudolf Nureyev is the 3rd most popular dancer (up from 4th in 2019), the 59th most popular biography from Russia (up from 69th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Dancer.

Rudolf Nureyev was a Russian ballet dancer who defected to the west in 1961. He was most famous for his performances with the Paris Opera Ballet and the Royal Ballet.

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Among DANCERS

Among dancers, Rudolf Nureyev ranks 3 out of 116. Before him are Mata Hari, and Isadora Duncan. After him are Anna Pavlova, Josephine Baker, Vaslav Nijinsky, Pina Bausch, Bobby Farrell, Marius Petipa, Marie Taglioni, Maurice Béjart, and Margot Fonteyn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Rudolf Nureyev ranks 7. Before him are Romy Schneider, Kofi Annan, Juan Carlos I of Spain, Beatrix of the Netherlands, Adriano Celentano, and Claudia Cardinale. After him are Queen Sofía of Spain, Jon Voight, Nico, Islam Karimov, Leonid Kuchma, and Farah Pahlavi. Among people deceased in 1993, Rudolf Nureyev ranks 5. Before him are Pablo Escobar, Audrey Hepburn, Federico Fellini, and Ferruccio Lamborghini. After him are Baudouin of Belgium, Erich Hartmann, William Golding, Frank Zappa, James Hunt, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, and Turgut Özal.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Rudolf Nureyev ranks 59 out of 3,761. Before him are Georgy Malenkov (1902), Andrei Tarkovsky (1932), Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1895), Vladimir the Great (958), Alexander Nevsky (1220), and Rurik (830). After him are Peter Kropotkin (1842), Ivan Turgenev (1818), Frederick I of Prussia (1657), Georg Cantor (1845), Mikhail Kutuzov (1745), and Yaroslav the Wise (978).

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Among DANCERS In Russia

Among dancers born in Russia, Rudolf Nureyev ranks 1. After him are Anna Pavlova (1881), Maya Plisetskaya (1925), Michel Fokine (1880), Tamara Karsavina (1885), Galina Ulanova (1910), George Balanchine (1904), Alexander Godunov (1949), Agrippina Vaganova (1879), Lev Ivanov (1834), Léonide Massine (1896), and Vladimir Vasiliev (1940).

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