# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-martins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:14:25.438Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-martins"
name: "Peter Martins"
slug: "peter-martins"
description: "Peter Martins is a Danish former ballet dancer and choreographer. Martins was a principal dancer with the Royal Danish Ballet and with the New York City Ballet, where he joined George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and John Taras as balletmaster in 1981. He retired from dancing in 1983, having achieved the rank of danseur noble, becoming Co-Ballet Master-In-Chief with Robbins. From 1990 until January 2018, he was responsible for artistic leadership of City Ballet as well as the School of American Ballet."
tagline: "Danish danseur and choreographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_Martins_Shankbone_Metropolitan_Opera_2009.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1946-10-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.61
  momentum:             1.206030150753769
  historical:           7.902486666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1019857/"
    handle:    "nm1019857"
sources:
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    title: "Peter Martins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بيتر مارتينز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Peter Martins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Martins"
    title: "Peter Martins"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Martins"
    title: "Peter Martins"
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  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Martins"
    title: "Peter Martins"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Martins"
    title: "Peter Martins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Martins"
    title: "Peter Martins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3754134"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1424117"
    title: "Peter Martins"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump