List of Kathak dancers

This is a list of the Sangeet Natak Akademi awards for the Indian classical dance form of Kathak, as well as gurus and well-known performers.

Sangeet Natak Akademi awardees

 * Shambhu Maharaj 1955
 * Sunder Prasad 1959
 * Mohanrao Kallianpurkar 1962
 * Birju Maharaj 1964
 * Damayanti Joshi 1968
 * Sitara Devi 1969
 * Roshan Kumari 1975
 * Rohini Bhate 1979
 * Kumudini Lakhia 1982
 * Durga Lal 1984
 * Uma Sharma 1987
 * Maya Rao 1989
 * Rani Karnaa 1996
 * Shovana Narayan 1999-2000
 * Rajendra Gangani 2002
 * Sunayana Hazarilal Agarwal 2003
 * Saswati Sen 2004
 * Munna Shukla 2006
 * Geetanjali Lal 2007
 * Shashi Sankhla 2008
 * Prerana Shrimali 2009
 * Vijay Shankar 2012
 * Uma Dogra 2014
 * Jitendra Maharaj 2016
 * Puru Dadheech 2018
 * Nandkishore Kapote 2020

Padma awardees

 * Shambhu Maharaj
 * Damayanti Joshi
 * Sitara Devi
 * Uma Sharma
 * Gopi Krishna (dancer)
 * Roshan Kumari
 * Birju Maharaj
 * Kumudini Lakhia
 * Shovana Narayan
 * Sunayana Hazarilal
 * Rani Karnaa
 * Puru Dadheech
 * Kamalini Asthana and Nalini Asthana

Gharana founders

 * Ishwari Prasad - Founder:Lucknow Gharana
 * Raja Chakradhar Singh - Founder: Raigarh Gharana
 * Bhanuji Maharaj - Founder: Jaipur Gharana
 * Janaki Prasad - Founder: Banaras Gharana

Lucknow gharana
The following is a list of the Gurus of the Lucknow Gharana, beginning with the disciples of Ishwari Prasad:
 * Wajid Ali Shah (1822 – 1887, Nawab of Oudh and patron of the arts)
 * Lachhu Maharaj
 * Shambhu Maharaj
 * Maya Rao
 * Damayanti Joshi
 * Birju Maharaj
 * Sushmita Banerjee
 * Maharaj Ghulam Hussain Kathak
 * Saswati Sen
 * Vibha Dadheech
 * Munna Shukla
 * Krishan Mohan Maharaj
 * Ram Mohan Maharaj
 * Smt.Vaswati Mishra
 * Nandkishore Kapote
 * Shila Mehta
 * Prerana Deshpande
 * Gauri Jog
 * Sushmita Banerjee
 * Deepa Devasena
 * Manjari Chaturvedi
 * Pali Chandra

Jaipur gharana

 * Sunder Prasad (Sundar Chunnilal Prasad)
 * Puru Dadheech
 * Mangala Bhatt
 * Pandit Bhanuji Maharaj

Banaras gharana
The following is a list of the gurus of the Benaras Gharana, beginning with the disciples of Janaki Prasad:
 * Sitara Devi, daughter of Sukhdev
 * Jitendra maharaj Disciple of Krishna Kumar maharaj
 * Kamalini Asthana and Nalini Asthana
 * Gopi Krishna

Gurus (deceased)

 * Damayanti Joshi
 * Rohini Bhate
 * Chitresh Das
 * Rani Karnaa
 * Maya Rao
 * Birju Maharaj
 * Arjun Mishra

Current elder/senior gurus

 * ANIRUDH KUMAR SINGH PATNA
 * Roshan Kumari
 * Puru Dadheech
 * Nahid Siddiqui
 * Kumudini Lakhia
 * Maya Rao (1928-2014)
 * Nirupama Rajendra
 * Nandini Singh
 * Geetanjali Lal
 * Shama Bhate
 * Prerana Shrimali
 * Nandkishore Kapote
 * Saswati Sen
 * Rajendra Gangani
 * Shovana Narayan
 * Pali Chandra
 * Guru Marami Medhi
 * Shakti Bhatnagar Roberts (https://m.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050123/society.htm)

Younger artists

 * Jaya Sharma
 * Prerana Deshpande
 * Manisha Gulyani
 * Neha Pendse
 * Akram Khan (dancer)
 * Chitresh Das
 * Satya Narayana Charka
 * Cynthia Ling Lee
 * Anshika Kataria