| NIJINSKY | Vaslav ___, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of Polish descent who died in 1950 |
| LIFAR | Serge, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of 1950 ballet Phedre (5) |
| WOZNIACKI | Caroline ___, Danish retired tennis player of Polish descent (9) |
| RULA | _ Lenska, husky-voiced actress of Polish descent (4) |
| DIAGHILEV | Sergei ___, Russian ballet impresario who founded and directed the Ballet Russe in Paris |
| MASSINE | Leonide -, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer who played Grischa Ljubov in 1948 film drama The Red Shoes (7) |
| NUREYEV | Russian ballet dancer and choreographer who defected to the West in 1961 |
| RUDOLF | Russian ballet dancer and choreographer who defected to the West in 1961 |
| DEVALOIS | Dame Ninette, Ireland-born ballet dancer and choreographer who died in 2002 (2,6) |
| ASHTON | Frederick, British ballet dancer and choreographer who died in 1988 (6) |
| BRAID | James ___, Scottish golfer, five-times winner of The Open Championship, who died in 1950 (5) |
| OLDS | Ransom Eli ___, US car manufacturer who died in 1950 (4) |
| MACMILLAN | Kenneth, ballet dancer and choreographer, born in 1929 (9) |
| ROBERTHELPMANN | Knighted 20th-century Australian ballet dancer and choreographer (6,8) |
| COSSACK | Any of the free warriorpeasants of chiefly east Slavonic descent who lived in communes and served as cavalry under the tsars (7) |
| NIEMI | US actress of Finnish descent who starred in Steel Dawn and One Last Dance, Lisa _ (5) |
| RAMBERT | Marie ___, Warsaw-born ballet dancer and pedagogue who died in 1982 (7) |
| ADAMA | Spanish footballer of Malian descent who joined Wolverhampton Wanderers from Middlesbrough in 2018 (5,6) |
| TRAORE | Spanish footballer of Malian descent who joined Wolverhampton Wanderers from Middlesbrough in 2018 (5,6) |
| SLIMANI | Rabah - - - , tighthead of Algerian descent who scored France's first try of RWC 2015 (7) |