Carlotta Zambelli (4 November 1875 – 28 January 1968) was an Italian prima ballerina and ballet teacher.

When she was seven, Zambelli studied at the ballet school of La Scala under Cesare Carnesecchi Coppini and Adelaide Viganò.

[1] She made her début at the Paris Opera in 1894 with Faust and triumphed the following year in the Hellé divertimento, impressing the Parisians with her Italian technique and her fouettés.

[1] She was the last foreigner to be designated prima ballerina at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg where she was a great success during the year she spent there in 1901 performing the leading roles in Coppélia, Giselle and Paquita.

She created leading roles in Namouna (1908), Javotte (1909), España (1911), Sylvia (1919), Taglioni chez Musette (1920) and Cydalise et le Chèvre-pied (1923).