Entertainers
- Gaetan Vestris
- Italian dancing-master for Louis XVI who was considered the greatest dancer of his day; he was the first to discard the mask in mime (1729-1808)
- choirboy
- a boy who sings in a choir
- thrush
- a woman who sings popular songs
- Katharine Houghton Hepburn
- United States film actress who appeared in many films with Spencer Tracy (1907-2003)
- George Harrison
- English rock star; lead guitarist of the Beatles (1943-2001)
- Arthur Rubinstein
- United States pianist (born in Poland) known for his interpretations of the music of Chopin (1886-1982)
- Sir Henry Maxmilian Beerbohm
- English writer and caricaturist (1872-1956)
- executant
- a performer (usually of musical works)
- syncopator
- a musician who plays syncopated jazz music (usually in a dance band)
- leading lady
- actress who plays the leading female role
- Francois Rabelais
- author of satirical attacks on medieval scholasticism (1494-1553)
- Dame Alice Ellen Terry
- English actress (1847-1928)
- Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
- United States film actor; son of Douglas Elton Fairbanks, (1909-2000)
- Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin
- English comedian and film maker; portrayed a downtrodden little man in baggy pants and bowler hat (1889-1977)
- diva
- a distinguished female operatic singer; a female operatic star
- Vladimir Horowitz
- Russian concert pianist who was a leading international virtuoso (1904-1989)
- Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen
- United States comedienne remembered as the confused but imperturbable partner of her husband, George Burns (1906-1964)
- James Grover Thurber
- United States humorist and cartoonist who published collections of essays and stories (1894-1961)
- Charles Edward Berry
- United States rock singer (born in 1931)
- Alfred Lunt
- United States actor who performed with his wife Lynn Fontanne in many stage productions (1893-1977)
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