The story starts with Pedro Carillo the son of a vaquero. Born in 1947 in Colombia, Pedro started as a roustabout in circuses. On the

The Cristiani circus family can trace its roots back to 1840 when Emilio Cristiani, a gymnast and bareback rider, joined a traveling circus in Pisa,

By Dominique Jando Circopedia Alfred Court (1883-1977) is perhaps the most remarkable French circus personality of the first half of the twentieth century. Beginning his

Arthur Concello was born Arturo Vasconcellos in 1912, the son of a Portuguese railway worker from Spokane, Washington. When he was three his family moved

He was born Cornelius Sullivan in Lismore, New South Wales , the son of an Irish man and a woman of indigenous descent whose father

Alfredo Codona (October 7, 1893 – July 30, 1937) was a Mexican trapeze artist who was a member of the world-famous “Flying Codonas” and was

Hubert Castle was born Hal Silvers or Hal Smith in Enid Oklahoma around 1912. Not much is known about his early life from current records

Concello was known as “greatest woman flyer of all time”. She was the first female trapeze to accomplish the dangerous triple somersault. Born Antoinette Comeau