- Tespis iz Ikarije (okoli 534 – 455 pr. n. št.), velja za prvotnega odrskega igralca.
- Richard Burbage (1567–1619)
- David Garrick (1717–1779).
- Sarah Siddons (1755–1831).
- Edmund Kean (1787–1833).
- William Charles Macready (1793–1873)
- Edwin Booth (1833–1893)
- Laurence Olivier (1907–1989)
- John Gielgud (1904–2000)
- Vivien Leigh (1913–1967).
- Marlon Brando (1924–2004).
- James Dean (1931–1955).
- Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011).
- Paul Newman (1925–2008).
- Robert Redford (1936–)
- Meryl Streep (1949–).
- Daniel Day-Lewis (1957–)
- Joaquin Phoenix (1974–).