This is a list of historical figures who have been characters in ballets.

Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author

Anna Anderson, impostor of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia

Andrew II of Hungary, King of Hungary

Bahram V, King of Persia

Giovanni Boldini, Italian genre and portrait painter

William H. Bonney (Billy the Kid), frontier outlaw in the American Old West

Lizzie Borden, American woman who was acquitted for murder