
Precious Adams is an American ballet dancer who currently dances with the English National Ballet.

Maria Aleksandrovna Alexandrova is a Russian principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet, People’s Artist of Russia.

Nina Ananiashvili is a Georgian ballerina and artistic director of the State Ballet of Georgia. She has been described by the Daily Telegraph as one of the twelve greatest ballerinas of all time, and in 2002 was named Best Ballerina of the Year by the US Dance Magazine. Ananiashvili has been a prominent fixture of the Soviet, Russian and Georgian ballet scene for decades. Shortly before the fall of the Iron Curtain, in 1987 a New York Magazine critic praised her as "the best thing about the Bolshoi's Giselle whether she appeared in the title role or as the queen of the wilis." In 2014, a film of her 1991 performance in Giselle with the Bolshoi ballet was released.

Dmitry Vladimirovich Belogolovtsev is a Russian ballet dancer, and former principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet.

Natalia Igorevna Bessmertnova was a Soviet prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet and a People's Artist of the USSR (1976).

Pavel Vitalyevich Dmitrichenko is a Russian ballet dancer and formerly a principal dancer of the Bolshoi Theatre.

Grigoriy Eduardovich Dobrygin is a Russian film and theatre actor, director and producer. A classically trained ballet dancer, Dobrygin had his breakout role as the first Russian superhero in the 2009 film Black Lightning. After starring in the critically acclaimed How I Ended This Summer (2010), he made his Western debut in 2014 in A Most Wanted Man and Black Sea. He has been called Russia's top acting export and the "Russian James Franco" for his versatility.

Sergei Yurevitch Filin is a Russian ballet dancer and the former artistic director of the Bolshoi Theater from 2011 through 2016. He is currently the Director of the Young Artists Ballet Program at the Bolshoi Theatre. Previously, he was the artistic director of the ballet at the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre, serving in this capacity from 2008 to 2011.

Maria Olegovna Kochetkova is a Russian ballet dancer. She was a principal dancer with the San Francisco Ballet between 2007 and 2018, and with the American Ballet Theatre between 2015 and 2017. After that, she became a freelance dancer for several years, before joining the Finnish National Ballet in the 2020/21 season.

Doris Laine was an internationally recognised Finnish ballet dancer, dance choreographer and pedagog, who later held several prominent leadership positions in dance and the wider performing arts. She is regarded as one of the most influential people in Finnish dance.

Mikhail Mordkin graduated from the Bolshoi Ballet School in 1899, and in the same year was appointed ballet master.

Laurent Novikoff or Laurent Novikov, was a Russian ballet dancer who became a citizen of the United States in 1939.
Agnes Oaks is an Estonian former ballet dancer, who was a principal dancer with English National Ballet.

Anastasia Stashkevich is a Russian principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet.

Xenia Makletzova, sometimes seen as Xenia Maclezova, was a Russian ballet dancer.