Entertainers
- David Garrick
- English actor and theater manager who was the foremost Shakespearean actor of his day (1717-1779)
- Dame Margot Fonteyn
- English dancer who danced with Rudolf Nureyev (born in 1919)
- Barbra Joan Streisand
- United States singer and actress (born in 1942)
- Jonathan Swift
- an English satirist born in Ireland (1667-1745)
- Salome
- woman whose dancing beguiled Herod into giving her the head of John the Baptist
- Alice-Josephine Pons
- United States coloratura soprano (born in France) (1904-1976)
- castrato
- a male singer who was castrated before puberty and retains a soprano or alto voice
- Bela Bartok
- Hungarian composer and pianist who collected Hungarian folk music; in 1940 he moved to the United States (1881-1945)
- danseur noble
- a male ballet dancer who is the partner of a ballerina
- Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
- English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917)
- Edward Vincent Sullivan
- United States host on a well known television variety show (1902-1974)
- upstager
- a selfish actor who upstages the other actors
- Jimmy Durante
- United States comedian remembered for his large nose and hoarse voice (1893-1980)
- Sir Anthony Philip Hopkins
- Welsh film actor (born in 1937)
- Lord of Misrule
- a person appointed master of revels at a Christmas celebration
- standup comedian
- a comedian who uses gags
- ballet dancer
- a trained dancer who is a member of a ballet company
- Humphrey DeForest Bogart
- United States film actor (1899-1957)
- fire-eater
- a performer who pretends to swallow fire
- hornist
- a musician who plays a horn (especially a French horn)
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