# List of classical guitarists

This is a list of classical guitarists.

## Baroque (17th and 18th centuries)

| Name | Born | Country |
| Antoine Carré | | France |
| Francesco Corbetta | c.1615–1681 | Italy |
| Francisco Guerau | 1649–1717/22 | Spain |
| Gaspar Sanz | 1640–1710 | Spain |
| Giovanni Battista Granata | 1620/1–1687 | Italy |
| Angelo Michele Bartolotti | ??–c.1682 | Italy |
| Ludovico Roncalli | 1654–1713 | Italy |
| Girolamo Montesardo | early 17th century | Italy |
| Robert de Visée | c.1658–1725 | France |
| Santiago de Murcia | c.1682 or 1685–1732 | Spain |

## 19th century

| Name | Born | Country |
| Adam Darr | 1811–1866 | Germany |
| Andrei Osipovich Sychra | 1773(6?)–1850 | Russia |
| Antoine de Lhoyer | 1768–1852 | France |
| Catharina Josepha Pratten | 1821–1895 | Germany, United Kingdom |
| Dionisio Aguado | 1784–1849 | Spain |
| Eduard Bayer | 1822–1908 | Germany |
| Ernest Shand | 1868–1924 | United Kingdom |
| Ferdinando Carulli | 1770–1841 | Italy |
| Fernando Sor | 1778–1839 | Spain |
| Francesco Molino | 1775–1847 | Italy |
| Francisco Tárrega | 1852–1909 | Spain |
| François de Fossa | 1775–1849 | Spain, France |
| Giulio Regondi | 1823–1872 | Switzerland, Italy, United Kingdom |
| Ivan Padovec | 1800–1873 | Croatia |
| Jacques Bosch | 1825–1895 | Spain, France |
| Jan Nepomucen Bobrowicz | 1805–1881 | Poland |
| Johann Kaspar Mertz | 1806–1856 | Slovakia, Austria |
| José Brocá | 1805–1882 | Spain |
| José Ferrer | 1835–1916 | Spain |
| Joseph Küffner | 1776–1856 | Germany |
| Julián Arcas | 1832–1882 | Spain |
| Luigi Legnani | 1790–1877 | Italy |
| Luis T. Romero | 1854–1893 | USA |
| Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti | 1801–1878 | Italy |
| Matteo Carcassi | 1792–1853 | Italy |
| Mauro Giuliani | 1781–1829 | Italy |
| Napoléon Coste | 1805–1883 | France |
| Niccolò Paganini | 1782–1840 | Italy |
| Pierre Jean Porro | 1750–1831 | France |
| Simon Molitor | 1766–1848 | Germany, Austria |
| Wenzel Thomas Matiegka | 1773–1830 | Czech Republic |
| Victor Magnien | 1802–1884 | France |

## 20th century

| Name | Born | Country |
| Abel Carlevaro | 1916–2001 | Uruguay |
| Agustín Barrios Mangoré | 1885–1944 | Paraguay |
| Alexandre Lagoya | 1929–1999 | France |
| Alirio Díaz | 1923–2016 | Venezuela |
| Andrés Segovia | 1893–1987 | Spain |
| Antonio Lauro | 1917–1986 | Venezuela |
| Antonio Membrado | 1935–2016 | Spain |
| Carlos Paredes | 1925–2004 | Portugal |
| Cayo Sila Godoy | 1919–2014 | Paraguay |
| Celedonio Romero | 1913–1996 | Spain |
| Clara Nicola | 1926–2017 | Cuba |
| Emilio Pujol | 1886–1980 | Spain |
| Frantz Casseus | 1915–1993 | Haiti |
| Heinrich Albert | 1870–1950 | Germany |
| Ida Presti | 1924–1967 | France |
| Italo Meschi | 1887–1957 | Italy |
| José Tomás | 1934–2001 | Spain |
| Konrad Ragossnig | 1932–2018 | Austria |
| Laurindo Almeida | 1917–1995 | Brasil |
| Leif Christensen | 1950–1988 | Denmark |
| Luise Walker | 1910–1998 | Austria |
| María Luisa Anido | 1907–1996 | Argentina, Spain |
| Miguel Ablóniz | 1917–2001 | Egypt, Greece, Italy |
| Miguel Llobet | 1878–1938 | Spain |
| Milan Zelenka | 1939 | Czech Republic |
| Narciso Yepes | 1927–1997 | Spain |
| Oscar Ghiglia | 1938 | Italy |
| Regino Sainz de la Maza | 1896–1981 | Spain |
| Renata Tarragó | 1927–2005 | Spain |
| Sergei Orekhov | 1935–1998 | Russia |
| Stanko Prek | 1915–1999 | Slovenia |
| Vahdah Olcott-Bickford | 1885–1980 | USA |
| William Foden | 1860–1947 | USA |

## Contemporary

| Name | Born | Country |
| Adam Holzman | 1960 | USA |
| Adnan Ahmedic | 1975 | Bosnia |
| Alberto Ponce | 1935–2019 | Spain, France |
| Alejandro González | 1973 | Cuba |
| Alice Artzt | 1943 | USA |
| Álvaro Pierri | 1953 | Uruguay |
| Ana Vidović | 1980 | Croatia |
| Anastasia Bardina | 1962 | Russia |
| Anders Miolin | 1961 | Sweden, Switzerland |
| Andrew York | 1958 | USA |
| Angel Romero | 1946 | Spain |
| Aniello Desiderio | 1971 | Italy |
| AnnaMaria Cardinalli | 1979 | USA |
| Annette Kruisbrink | 1958 | Netherlands |
| Antigoni Goni | 1969 | Greece |
| Artyom Dervoed | 1981 | Russia |
| Andrei Krylov | 1959 | Russia |
| Badi Assad | 1966 | Brazil |
| Benjamin Dwyer | 1965 | Ireland |
| Berta Rojas | 1966 | Paraguay |
| Carlo Domeniconi | 1947 | Italy |
| Carlo Marchione | 1964 | Italy |
| Carlos Bonell | 1949 | United Kingdom |
| Cesar Amaro | 1948–2012 | Uruguay |
| Charles Ramirez | 1953 | United Kingdom |
| Chen Shanshan | 1983 | China |
| Christopher Parkening | 1947 | USA |
| Dang Ngoc Long | 1957 | Germany, Vietnam |
| David Leisner | 1953 | USA |
| Dave Flynn | 1977 | Ireland |
| David Russell | 1953 | United Kingdom |
| David Starobin | 1951 | USA |
| David Tanenbaum | 1956 | USA |
| Denis Azabagic | 1972 | Bosnia |
| Detlev Bork | 1967 | Germany |
| Dimitri Illarionov | 1979 | Russia |
| Dušan Bogdanović | 1955 | Serbia |
| Edoardo Catemario | 1965 | Italy |
| Edson Lopes | 1957 | Brazil |
| Eduardo Fernández | 1952 | Uruguay |
| Ekachai Jearakul | 1987 | Thailand |
| Elie Ossipovitch | 1987 | France |
| Eliot Fisk | 1958 | USA, Austria |
| Erkan Ogur | 1954 | Turkey |
| Erling Møldrup | 1943–2016 | Denmark |
| Evan Hirschelman | 1976 | USA |
| Evangelos Assimakopoulos | 1940 | Greece |
| Filomena Moretti | 1973 | Italy |
| Flavio Sala | 1983 | Italy |
| Frank Bungarten | 1958 | Germany |
| Gabriel Estarellas | 1952 | Spain |
| Gareth Koch | 1962 | Australia |
| Gentil Montaña | 1942–2011 | Colombia |
| Georg Gulyás | 1968 | Sweden |
| Gilbert Biberian | 1944 | Turkey, United Kingdom |
| Goran Krivokapić | 1979 | Serbia |
| Göran Söllscher | 1955 | Sweden |
| Gordon O'Brien | 1966 | Canada |
| Heike Matthiesen | 1969-2023 | Germany |
| Hubert Käppel | 1951 | Germany |
| Hucky Eichelmann | 1956 | Germany, Thailand |
| Humberto Bruni Lamanna | 1957 | Venezuela |
| Irina Kulikova | 1982 | Russia |
| Jaime Mirtenbaum Zenamon | 1953 | Bolivia |
| Jason Vieaux | 1973 | USA |
| Jim Ferguson | 1948 | USA |
| Johanna Beisteiner | 1976 | Austria |
| John Couch | 1976 | New Zealand, Australia |
| John Feeley | 1955 | Ireland |
| John Schneider | 1950 | USA |
| John Williams | 1941 | Australia, United Kingdom |
| Jorge Cardoso | 1949 | Argentina |
| Jorge Morel | 1931 | Argentina, USA |
| József Eötvös | 1962 | Hungary |
| Józef Zsapka | 1947 | Slovakia |
| Juanjo Domínguez | 1951–2019 | Argentina |
| Julian Bream | 1933–2020 | United Kingdom |
| Jürgen Rost | 1945 | Germany |
| Kaori Muraji | 1978 | Japan |
| Karin Schaupp | 1972 | Germany, Australia |
| Peter and Zoltán Katona | 1968 | Hungary |
| Kazuhito Yamashita | 1961 | Japan |
| Kyuhee Park | 1985 | South Korea |
| Laura Snowden | | United Kingdom, France |
| Laura Young | 1962 | Canada |
| Leo Brouwer | 1939 | Cuba |
| Leon Koudelak | 1961 | Czech Republic, Switzerland, Thailand |
| Li Jie | 1981 | China |
| Liat Cohen | 1971 | France, Israel |
| Liona Boyd | 1949 | Canada |
| Liza Zoe | 1940 | Greece |
| Magnus Andersson | 1955 | Sweden |
| Mak Grgic | 1987 | Slovenia |
| Manuel Barrueco | 1952 | Cuba |
| Marc Ongley | 1952 | USA |
| Marc Regnier | 19?? | USA |
| Marcin Dylla | 1976 | Poland |
| Marco Pereira | 1950 | Brazil |
| Margarita Escarpa | 1964 | Spain |
| María Isabel Siewers | 1950 | Argentina |
| Maria Kämmerling | 1946 | Germany |
| Marko Topchii | 1991 | Ukraine |
| Mårten Falk | 1973 | Sweden |
| Martha Masters | 1972 | USA |
| Mattias Schulstad | 1984 | Sweden |
| Máximo Diego Pujol | 1957 | Argentina |
| Michael Laucke | 1947 | Canada |
| Michael Nicolella | 1963 | USA |
| Michael Tröster | 1956 | Germany |
| Milica Ilic | 1981 | Australia |
| Milos Karadaglic | 1983 | Montenegro |
| Monika Rost | 1943 | Germany |
| Nicola Hall | 1969 | United Kingdom |
| Nikita Koshkin | 1956 | Russia |
| Norbert Kraft | 1950 | Austria, Canada |
| Ólavur Jakobsen | 1964 | Faroe Islands |
| Oliver Fartach-Naini | 1964 | Germany |
| Pablo Márquez | 1967 | Argentina |
| Patrick Kearney | 1970 | Canada |
| Paul Galbraith | 1964 | United Kingdom |
| Pavel Steidl | 1961 | Czech Republic, Netherlands |
| Pepe Romero | 1944 | Spain |
| Petar Čulić | 1986 | Croatia |
| Petrit Ceku | 1985 | Kosovo |
| Piotr Pakhomkin | 1985 | Russia, USA |
| Rafael Andia | 1942 | France |
| Rafael Serrallet | 1971 | Spain |
| Reinbert Evers | 1949 | Germany |
| Ricardo Gallén | 1972 | Spain |
| Robert Phillips | 1953 | USA |
| Roberto Fabbri | 1964 | Italy |
| Roland Dyens | 1955–2016 | France |
| Scott Tennant | 1962 | USA |
| Sean Shibe | 1992 | United Kingdom |
| Sergio Assad | 1952 | Brazil |
| Sharon Isbin | 1956 | USA |
| Simone Iannarelli | 1970 | Italy |
| Slava Grigoryan | 1976 | Australia |
| Stanley Yates | 1958 | United Kingdom, USA |
| Stefano Grondona | 1958 | Italy |
| Štěpán Rak | 1945 | Czech Republic |
| Stephen Marchionda | 1967 | USA, Spain |
| Su Meng | 1988 | China |
| Thomas Müller-Pering | 1958 | Germany |
| Tilman Hoppstock | 1961 | Germany |
| Timo Korhonen | 1964 | Finland |
| Tony Harmon | 1958 | USA |
| Vladimir Gorbach | 1981 | Russia |
| Ferenc Bernáth | 1981 | Hungary, Ukraine |
| Andras Csaki | 1981 | Hungary |
| Wang Yameng | 1981 | China |
| William Kanengiser | 1959 | USA |
| Yang Xuefei | 1977 | China |
| Yorgos Foudoulis | 1964 | Greece |
| Zoran Dukic | 1969 | Croatia |
| Miloš Karadaglić | 1983 | Montenegro |