List of historical ballet characters
This is a list of historical figures who have been characters in ballets.
Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author Anna Anderson, impostor of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia Andrew II of Hungary, King of Hungary Bahram V, King of Persia Giovanni Boldini, Italian genre and portrait painter William H. Bonney (Billy the Kid), frontier outlaw in the American Old West Lizzie Borden, American woman who was acquitted for murder Marie Anne de Cupis de Camargo, French/Belgian dancer Caravaggio, Italian Baroque painter Caroline Matilda of Great Britain, Queen of Denmark and Norway, the wife of Christian VII of Denmark Fanny Cerrito, Italian ballet dancer and choreographer Cleopatra, last ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt Marcus Licinius Crassus, Roman general and politician Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist Hugh Despenser the Younger, royal chamberlain and a favourite of Edward II of England Sergei Diaghilev, Russian art critic, ballet impresario, and founder of the Ballets Russes Charles Didelot, French dancer and choreographer Isadora Duncan, American dancer Edward II of England, King of England Edward III of England, King of England Caroline Alice Elgar, English author Edward Elgar, English composer Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Empress consort of Austria Elizabeth I of England, Queen of England and Ireland Franca Florio, Italian noblewoman, socialite and a prominent protagonist of the Belle Époque Ignazio Florio Jr., Italian entrepreneur Saint Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscans Franz Joseph I of Austria, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall, English nobleman Archduchess Gisela of Austria, second daughter of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria Lucile Grahn, Danish ballerina Alfred Grünfeld, court pianist of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, Lord High Admiral of Scotland and 3rd husband of Mary, Queen of Scotland Herodias, a princess of the Herodian Dynasty E. T. A. Hoffmann, German Romantic author Isabella of France, Queen of England as the wife of Edward II Ivan the Terrible, Tsar of Russia August Jaeger, Anglo-German music publisher Jiang Qing, Chinese figure, 4th wife of Mao Zedong Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter Mathilde Kschessinska, Russian prima ballerina Andrey Kurbsky, Russian figure, political opponent of Ivan the Terrible Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich, niece of Empress Elisabeth of Austria Louis XVI of France, King of France Princess Louise of Belgium, wife of Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha La Malinche, Aztec mistress of Hernán Cortés Mao Zedong, Chinese leader Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and Navarre Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, third daughter of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria Mary, Queen of Scots, Queen of Scotland Léonide Massine, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer George "Bay" Middleton, English horseman Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, English nobleman Vaslav Nijinsky, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer and ballet master Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer Denis Papin, French physicist, mathematician and inventor Philippa of Hainault, Queen of England as the wife of King Edward III Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Jacques Renaudin (Valentin le désossé), French can-can dancer Arthur Rimbaud, French poet Diego Rivera, Mexican painter Anastasia Romanovna, Tsaritsa consort, first wife of Ivan the Terrible Salvator Rosa, Italian Baroque painter, poet, and printmaker Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, Crown Prince of Austria Arthur Saint-Léon, French dancer and choreographer Katharina Schratt, Austrian actress Clara Schumann, German musician Robert Schumann, German composer George Robertson Sinclair, English cathedral organist Princess Sophie of Bavaria, Archduchess of Austria Spartacus, Thracian gladiator Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, Crown Princess of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, King consort of Scotland Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe, Austrian statesman Marie Taglioni, Italian/Swedish ballet dancer Tancred, Prince of Galilee, Norman Crusade leader Baroness Mary Vetsera, Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria's mistress François Villon, French poet Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist Louise Weber (La Goulue), French can-can dancer George Zorbas , Greek miner
