- Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 - June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz in Omaha, Nebraska, was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of seventy-six years, during which he made thirty-one musical films. He is particularly associated with Ginger Rogers, with whom he made ten films that revolutionized the genre.
- Pierre Dulaine
Pierre Dulaine is a dance instructor who was the influence for the main character of "Take the Lead". He is also a real leading dance instructor in the inner part of New York City, and his teaching has brought his techniques all across schools in the U.S. Today, there are more than 20,000 students across the country that use and teach Pierre Dulaine's dance techniques.
- Julianne Marie Hough
"Dancing With the Stars" professional dancer Julianne Hough has been hospitalized after Tuesday night's live show. The 20-year-old two-time champ was experiencing "slight stomach pains" during the day.
- Cheryl Burke
Cheryl Bautista Burke (born May 12 1984) is a two time Emmy nominated professional dancer based in New York City. She is best known for winning the second and third seasons of ABC's American version of "Dancing with the Stars" with Drew Lachey (February 2006) and Emmitt Smith (November 2006).
- Karina Smirnoff
Karina Smirnoff is a world champion professional dancer from Kharkiv, Ukraine. She is a five-time U.S. National Champion, World Trophy Champion, and Asian Open Champion. She was a performer on the third season of the ABC series "Dancing with the Stars" with celebrity partner Mario López, her current boyfriend. They eventually finished in second, losing to the team of Emmitt Smith and Cheryl Burke. Karina returned on the show on March 19, …
- Len Goodman
Len Goodman, (born April 24, 1942) is a professional dance judge who also teaches ballroom and Latin dancing at the school he runs in Dartford, Kent, UK. Born in Bethnal Green in April 1942, he started dancing around the age of 20 after a short time as an engineering apprentice. He turned professional, won various competitions, and retired from dancing after winning the British Championships in his late twenties.
- Tony Dovolani
Driton "Tony" Dovolani (Born jul 17,1973, in Kosovo) is a professional ballroom dancer based in New York City. He is known for his involvement in the American version of "Dancing with the Stars" on ABC. He was partnered with Stacy Keibler in the second season, where they made it to the finals and ended up coming in third place. In the third season of Dancing with the Stars he partnered with country music star Sara Evans.
- Edyta Sliwinska
Edyta Sliwinska (born May 5, 1982) is a professional ballroom dancer. She is best known as the only professional dancer to appear on all four televised seasons of the American version of the ABC televsiion series "Dancing with the Stars".
- Maksim Chmerkovskiy
Maksim Chmerkovskiy is a Latin Ballroom dance champion, choreographer, and instructor. He is best known for appearing on three seasons of the American version of the television series "Dancing With The Stars". Born on January 17, 1980 in Odessa, Ukraine, Maksim began dancing at the age of four. In his native land he was one of the leading junior couples in ballroom dancing before his family immigrated to the United States in 1994.
- Kym Johnson
Kym Johnson (born 1977) is an Australian former professional ballroom dancer, model, and television celebrity.
- Jonathan Roberts
Jonathan Roberts is an American professional ballroom dancer. He excels in Latin Ballroom dancing. He decided to take up dancing when he received a free trial at a local dance studio and enjoyed it. He currently resides in California with his wife and dance partner, Anna Trebunskaya.
- Tony Meredith
Tony Meredith is a professional ballroom dance champion and choreographer.
- Heidi Groskreutz
Heidi Groskreutz is a ballroom dancer, specializing in the fields of Latin and swing dancing. She's also known for making the final of the Fox TV series So You Think You Can Dance
- Alec Mazo
Alec Mazo is a Russian-born American professional ballroom dancer based in San Francisco. He is well known for his participation in Season 1 of the US Dancing with the Stars, coming in first place with partner Kelly Monaco. Mazo has been dancing since he was five years old, and moved to America from Russia with his family at age 12. He grew up in San Antonio, Texas and is of Russian Jewish descent.
- Anya Garnis
Anya Garnis (born c. 1982) is a Latin dancer from New York City (originally from Russia), and a finalist on season 3 of the American reality television show "So You Think You Can Dance." Garnis has lived in the United States for six years. She also worked at a law firm back in Russia. She has been dancing for nine years with partner Pasha Kovalev, who is also a finalist on the show.
- Dmitry Chaplin
Dmitry Chaplin ("Dmitry Alexandrovich Chaplin") is an International Latin dancer, best known for being a Top 10 finalist on the TV show "So You Think You Can Dance (Season 2)". He was famous for constantly performing shirtless, with one solo routine having him rip off his shirt.
- Brendan Cole
Brendan Cole (born in Christchurch, New Zealand) is a ballroom dancer specialising in Latin American dancing. He has appeared on the BBC show "Strictly Come Dancing", a dance contest in which a professional ballroom dancer is partnered with a celebrity amateur dancer. He has also judged three seasons of New Zealand's own "Dancing with the Stars". He has danced since he was six, and came to the United Kingdom when he was nineteen.
- Louis van Amstel
Louis van Amstel is a ballroom dance champion and professional dancer and choreographer on the U.S. reality television series "Dancing with the Stars".
- Anna Trebunskaya
Anna Trebunskaya is a famous ballroom and Latin dancer, well known for her appearances on Dancing with the Stars. In Season 2, she partnered football star Jerry Rice, and together they came in 2nd to pop star Drew Lachey and Cheryl Burke. Trebunskaya and her partner and husband Jonathan Roberts have also performed together on results shows in all three seasons.
- Anton du Beke
Anton du Beke is a professional ballroom dancer. His dance partner is Erin Boag. With Boag, he won the IDTA Classic in England in November 2003. His reasonably late entry to dancing began at 14, and at 17 decided to specialize in ballroom. He has appeared in all four series of the BBC's "Strictly Come Dancing". In the first series, he danced with singer Lesley Garrett and finished in 3rd place.
- Ashly Delgrosso
Ashly DelGrosso-Costa (b. July 9 1982, Denver, Colorado), known professionally as Ashly DelGrosso, is a professional dancer from Highland, Utah who starred on the ABC television series "Dancing with the Stars" for the first three seasons.
- Sonia Kruger
Sonia Kruger (born September 28, 1965) is an Australian television presenter. She is best known for hosting (alongside Daryl Somers) the popular Australian version of "Dancing with the Stars", and for the role of ballroom dancer Tina Sparkle in the hit 1992 film "Strictly Ballroom". Kruger is also an entertainment reporter for "Sunrise" and "Today Tonight", which along with Dancing with the Stars, air on the Seven Network.
- Nick Kosovich
Nick Kosovich is a professional ballroom dancer specializing with American Smooth/Ten Dance, and is noted for his participation in ABC's "Dancing with the Stars". Australian by nationality, Nick resides in New York with his wife and dance partner Lena Bacheva. They recently retired from competition, however he achieved many awards in his career. An internationally respected figure in the Ballroom world, …
- Camilla Dallerup
Camilla Dallerup (born 1974 in Aalborg), is a British based Danish ballroom dancer. Dallerup has been dancing from the young age of two, when her mother took her to her first class in Aalborg. Soon, Camilla won the Danish Junior Championships at the age of 12. She moved to England where she competed with Brendan Cole, who also became her boyfriend. In 2003 Dallerup and Cole were placed 3rd for Latin America at the UK Closed Championships.
- Darren Bennett
Darren Bennett (born 14 February 1977, in Sheffield, England) is a professional dancer, as were his parents. With his wife Lilia Kopylova he has a successful career in professional latin dancing, competing nationally and internationally. Darren's favourite dances are the Samba and the Foxtrot.They teach private lessons in their own studio at Sheffield, England. Bennett first met Kopylova after his twin brother Dale, also a dancer, introduced them.
- Hunter Johnson
Hunter Johnson is a ballroom dancer and choreographer.
- Toni Redpath
Toni Redpath is a professional ballroom dance champion and choreographer.
- Erin Boag
Erin Boag, who was born on 17th March 1975 in New Zealand, is a professional ballroom dancer. She has danced from the age of 3. When she was a teenager, she moved to Australia. Her regular professional partner is Anton du Beke. She and du Beke turned professional in 2002, competing mainly in the UK. Their best result on the competition circuit was in November 2003 when they won the IDTA Classic in England.
- Flavia Cacace
Flavia Cacace is a professional dancer. She is originally from Italy and moved to England with her family at aged four. She and her professional dancing partner, Vincent Simone, are two-time world champions at the Argentine Tango. She appeared on the fourth series of the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing. Her celebrity dancing partner for the show was Jimmy Tarbuck.
- Vincent Simone
Vincent Simone is a professional dancer born in Italy but moved to England when he was 16 and has since lived in Guildford, Surrey. His professional dancing partner is Flavia Cacace who he met when they were both taking lessons from the same teacher; they were both looking for partners so they decided to have a try-out together and are still dancing together today. The two also teach dancing lessons for beginners to competitors in their spare time.
- Karen Hardy
Karen Hardy (born Bournemouth, Dorset), is a retired professional Latin American dancer, and is a former international, United Kingdom Open, British National, European and World Masters Champion. She started dancing aged five in her home town of Bournemouth, and competed in the United States for two years from the age of 18 winning both East and West Coast amateur championship titles. She returned to the UK after two years, and teamed up with Mark Lunn - after six months, …
- Michael Mead
Michael Mead is a professional ballroom dance champion and choreographer
- Lilia Kopylova
Lilia Andreievna Kopylova (born 18 June 1978 in Moscow, Russia) is a professional dancer. With her husband Darren Bennett she has been competing as an amateur since July 1997 and as a professional since May 2003. The couple has achieved considerable success in the Professional Latin style of dancing, both nationally in the UK and internationally.
- Matthew Cutler
Matthew David Cutler (born October 30, 1973) is a successful English dancer. Born in Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom, he started dancing at the age of eight.
- Paul Killick
Paul Killick is a dancer and has previously held the title of World Latin Champion, dancing with Inga Hass. He is now retired from competition but teaches dance. He has his own dance studio in London. He has taken part in the first two series of Strictly Come Dancing. In series 1 he danced with Verona Joseph, reaching the third round. In series 2 he danced with Carol Vorderman and reached the second round.
- Brian Fortuna
Brian Fortuna is a professional American ballroom dancer, choreographer and instructor. Brian began dancing at his mother's studio at the age of four. Both of his parents have nationally ranked titles in ballroom and Latin Dancesport. Fortuna graduated from Camden Catholic High School and took three years of Business Marketing at Rutgers University. He was the North American Top Teacher in 2004 and 2005. Those same years, Fortuna was the Imperial Dancesport Champion.
- Donnie Burns
Donnie Burns is a British professional ballroom dancer. With his partner, Gaynor Fairweather, they were 14 times World Professional Latin champions and honored to be Members of the Order of the British Empire (M.B.E.).
- Ian Waite
Ian Waite is a professional Latin-American dancer. He started dancing at age 10 and is a former European Youth Latin American Champion. His dance partner since 2004 is Camilla Dallerup. He is based in the UK but previously danced with Natalia Panina (listed as Natasja Panina on danceplaza.com but Waite's website and details of Ms Panina's other partnerships say Natalia) in Rotterdam, The Netherlands (with 12 competition wins between 1998 and 2001), …
- Mike Sexton
Mike Sexton (born September 22 1947) is an American professional poker player and commentator.
- Corky Ballas
Corky Ballas is a retired competitive ballroom dancer who holds several Latin dance championship titles. He and his partner Shirley Ballas were 1996 Open to the World International Champions, 1995–1996 Open to the World British Champions, twice British National Champions, Star - World Cup - UK - Champions, and seven times undefeated United States International Latin Champions. They retired in[1996.