Entertainers

Galina Sergeevna Ulanova
Russian ballet dancer (1910-1998)
 
William John Clifton Haley Jr.
United States rock singer who was one of the first to popularize rock'n'roll music (1925-1981)
 
Norma Jean Baker
United States film actress noted for sex appeal (1926-1962)
 
Efrem Zimbalist
United States violinist (born in Russia) (1889-1985)
 
Sarah Kemble Siddons
English actress noted for her performances in Shakespearean roles (1755-1831)
 
Mahalia Jackson
United States singer who did much to popularize gospel music (1911-1972)
 
violist
a musician who plays the viola
 
Anton Bruckner
Austrian organist and composer of romantic music (1824-1896)
 
Lilian Alicia Marks
English ballet dancer (born in 1910)
 
Sir James Paul McCartney
English rock star and bass guitarist and songwriter who with John Lennon wrote most of the music for the Beatles (born in 1942)
 
Thomas Wright Waller
United States jazz musician (1904-1943)
 
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)
 
Paul Bustill Robeson
United States bass singer and an outspoken critic of racism and proponent of socialism (1898-1976)
 
Thelonious Sphere Monk
United States jazz pianist who was one of the founders of the bebop style (1917-1982)
 
Ravi Shankar
Indian sitar player who popularized classical Indian music in the West (born in 1920)
 
TV star
a star in a television show
 
Marcel Marceau
French mime famous for his sad-faced clown (born in 1923)
 
pantomimer
an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression
 
John Birks Gillespie
United States jazz trumpeter and exponent of bebop (1917-1993)
 
Judy Garland
United States singer and film actress (1922-1969)
 
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