Entertainers
- Ravi Shankar
- Indian sitar player who popularized classical Indian music in the West (born in 1920)
- William Byrd
- English organist and composer of church music; master of 16th century polyphony; was granted a monopoly in music printing with Thomas Tallis (1543-1623)
- Oliver Hardy
- United States slapstick comedian who played the pompous and overbearing member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1892-1957)
- Paul Simon
- United States singer and songwriter (born in 1942)
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Russian dancer and choreographer who migrated to the United States (born in 1948)
- Lilian Alicia Marks
- English ballet dancer (born in 1910)
- Dame Alice Ellen Terry
- English actress (1847-1928)
- Peter Alexander Ustinov
- British actor and playwright (1921-2004)
- escape expert
- an entertainer who is expert in the art of escaping
- concertinist
- a person who plays the concertina
- Agnes George de Mille
- United States dancer and choreographer who introduced formal dance to a wide audience (1905-1993)
- Merce Cunningham
- United States dancer and choreographer (born in 1922)
- yodeller
- a singer who changes register rapidly (popular is Swiss folk songs)
- Hume Blake Cronyn
- Canadian actor who frequently played character parts with his wife Jessica Tandy (1911-2003)
- Leonard Marx
- United States comedian; one of four brothers who made motion pictures together (1891-1961)
- xylophonist
- someone who plays a xylophone
- Peter Seamus O'Toole
- British actor (born in Ireland in 1932)
- Mahalia Jackson
- United States singer who did much to popularize gospel music (1911-1972)
- harpsichordist
- someone who plays the harpsichord
- toast mistress
- a woman toastmaster
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