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Micheline Bernardini

1927 - Today

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Micheline Bernardini (born 1 December 1927) is a French former nude dancer at the Casino de Paris who agreed to model, on 5 July 1946, Louis Réard's two-piece swimsuit, which he called the bikini, named four days after the first test of an American nuclear weapon at the Bikini Atoll. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Micheline Bernardini is the 61st most popular dancer (down from 59th in 2019), the 3,823rd most popular biography from France (down from 3,596th in 2019) and the 12th most popular French Dancer.

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Among DANCERS

Among dancers, Micheline Bernardini ranks 61 out of 116. Before her are Kurt Jooss, Jean Coralli, Carla Fracci, Lindsay Kemp, Lucile Grahn, and Hans van Manen. After her are Adam Darius, Olga Preobrajenska, John Cranko, Yvette Chauviré, Vakhtang Chabukiani, and Tamara Khanum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Micheline Bernardini ranks 243. Before her are William Hickey, Claudio Brook, Michael Gielen, Serge Lang, Pierre Granier-Deferre, and Thomas S. Monson. After her are Mathé Altéry, Freddie Jones, Nguyễn Thị Bình, Chris Heunis, Hamed Karoui, and Stuart Rosenberg.

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In France

Among people born in France, Micheline Bernardini ranks 3,823 out of 6,770. Before her are Anselm of Laon (1050), Jean Frédéric Frenet (1816), Louis Bastien (1881), Robert de Clari (1170), Frédéric Dard (1921), and André Roosevelt (1879). After her are Mathé Altéry (1927), Gaston, Marquis de Galliffet (1831), Cécilia Attias (1957), Emmanuel Célestin Suhard (1874), René David (1906), and Jean Delumeau (1923).

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Among DANCERS In France

Among dancers born in France, Micheline Bernardini ranks 12. Before her are Pierre Beauchamp (1631), La Goulue (1866), Roland Petit (1924), Zizi Jeanmaire (1924), Arthur Saint-Léon (1821), and Jean Coralli (1779). After her are Yvette Chauviré (1917), and Sylvie Guillem (1965).

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