Peg Leg Bates(1907-1998)

Whereas tap dancers have two feet to come down upon, Peg Leg had only one foot and the metal tip of his artificial leg on which to land. He had to rethink his method of tap dancing.

"Just watch me peg it, you can tell by the way I leg it, I'm Peg-Legged Bates, the one-legged dancing man." Source: on the Memorial of his statue, in hometown of Fountain Inn, South Carolina.