List of guitarists

A guitarist is a person who plays the guitar. A guitar is a type of musical instrument.
Noted guitarists
Classical
Baroque (XVII & XVIII century)
Antoine Carre
Francesco Corbetta (ca 1615-1681)
Giovanni Battista Granata
Francisco Guerau
Girolamo Montesardo
Alonso Mudarra (1510-1580)
Santiago de Murcia (Around 1682 or 1685-1732) (Spain)
Gaspar Sanz (1640-1710) (Spain)
Robert de Visee (ca 1658-1725) (France)
XIX century
Dionisio Aguado (1784-1849) (Spain)
Matteo Carcassi (1792-1853) (Italy)
Ferdinando Carulli (1770-1841) (Italy)
Napoleon Coste (1806-1883) (France)
Adam Darr (1811-1866) (Germany)
Jose Ferrer (1835-1916)
Francois de Fossa (1775-1849) (Spain-France)
Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829) (Italy)
Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806-1856) (Austrian-based, born in Slovakia.)
Francesco Molino (1775-1847)
Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840) (Italian)
Giulio Regondi (Italian)
Luis T. Romero(1854-1893)(American)
Fernando Sor (1778-1839) (Spanish)
Andrei Osipovich Sychra (1773 or 1776 - 1850) (Russia)
Francisco Tarrega (1852--1909) (Spanish)
XX century
Laurindo Almeida (1917-1995)(Brasil)
Maria Luisa Anido (1907-1996) (Argentina, Spain)
Agustin Pio Barrios (1885-1944) (Paraguay)
Abel Carlevaro (1916-2001) (Uruguay)
Leif Christensen 1950-1988
Alirio Diaz (b. 1923)
Dimitri Fampas (1921-1996)
Sila Godoy (b. 1919)
Alexandre Lagoya (1929-1999)
Antonio Lauro (1917-1986)
Miguel Llobet (1878-1938)
Gustavo Lopez 1920-1979
Sergei Orekhov (1935-1998)
Emilio Pujol (1886-1980)
Ida Presti (1924-1967)
Celedonio Romero (1913-1996)
Regino Sainz de la Maza (1896-1981, Spain)
Andres Segovia (1893-1987, Spain)
Jose Tomas (1934-2001)
Narciso Yepes (1927-1997)
Contemporary
Lily Afshar (b. 19--) (Iran / U.S.)
Adnan Ahmedic (b.1975) (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Cesar Amaro (b. 1948) (Uruguay)
Magnus Andersson (b. 1955) (Sweden)
Sergio Assad (b. 1952) (Brazil)
Denis Azabagic (b. 1972) (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Manuel Barrueco (b. 1952) (Cuba)
Gilbert Biberian (b. 1944)
Dusan Bogdanovic (b. 1955) (Yugoslavia now Serbia / U.S.)
Liona Boyd (b. 1949)
Julian Bream (b. 1933) (United Kingdom)
Leo Brouwer (b. 1939) (Cuba)
Charo (b. 1951) (Spain)ffz
Maximo Diego Pujol
Carlo Domeniconi (b. 1947) (Italy)
Juanjo Dominguez (b. 1951) (Argentina)
Zoran Dukic (b. 1969) (Croatia)
Roland Dyens (b. 1955) (France)
Gabriel Estarellas (Spain)
Roberto Fabbri (b.1964) (Italy)
Eva Fampas (b. 1964) (Greece)
Oliver Fartach-Naini (b. 1964) (Germany)
Eliot Fisk (b. 1958) (U.S. / Austria)
Yorgos Foudoulis (Greece)
Jose Gonzalez (Sweden)
Kostas Grigoreas (b. 1957) (Greece)
Robin Hill (b. 1953) (United Kingdom)
Adam Holzman (b. 1960)
Tilman Hoppstock (b. 1961) (Germany)
Simone Iannarelli (b. 1970) (Italy)
Sharon Isbin (b. 1956) (U.S.)
Olavur Jakobsen (b. 1964) Faroe Islands
Maria Kammerling (b. 1946)
William Kanengiser (U.S.)
Nikita Koshkin (b. 1956) (Russia)
Goran Krivokapic (b. 1979) (Serbia)
David Leisner (b. 1953) (U.S.
Stephen Marchionda 1967 (U.S. / Spain)
Carlo Marchione (b. 1964) (Italy)
Martha Masters (b. 1972) (U.S.)
Pablo Marquez (b. 1967) (Argentina)
Jaime Mirtenbaum Zenamon
Gentil Montana (b. 1942) (Colombia)
Jorge Morel (b. 1931)
Erling Moldrup (b. 1943)
Thomas Muller-Pering (b. 1958)
Gordon O'Brien (b. 1966)
Erkan Ogur (b. 1954) (Turkey)
Christopher Parkening (b. 1947)
Marco Pereira
Robert Phillips (b. 1953) (U.S.)
Alvaro Pierri (Uruguay)
Alberto Ponce (b. 1935), (Spain / France)
Stanko Prek
Stepan Rak (b. 1945) (Czech Republic)
Angel Romero (b. 1946) (Spain)
Pepe Romero (b. 1944) (Spain)
David Russell (b. 1953) (United Kingdom (Scotland))
Stephan Schmidt (Germany / Switzerland based)
John Schneider
Maria Isabel Siewers
Goran Sollscher
David Starobin (b. 1951) (U.S.)
Pavel Steidl (b. 1961), (Czechoslovakia (now in the Czech Republic)/Netherlands)
David Tanenbaum (b. 1956) (U.S.)
Scott Tennant (b. 1962) (U.S.)
Ana Vidovic (b. 1980) (Croatia)
Jerry Willard
John Williams (b. 1941) (Australia)
Alan Banks (Australia)
Kazuhito Yamashita (b. 1961) (Japan)
Andrew York (U.S.)
Laura Young (Canada)
Yang Xuefei (b. 1977) (People's Republic of China)
Simon Cheong (b. 1959) (Malaysia)
Country music
Chet Atkins
Albert Lee
Jerry Douglas
B.J. Cole
Bonnie Raitt
Leo Kottke
Arlen Roth
Danny Gatton
Jerry Donahue
Will Ray
John Jorgenson
Steve Wariner
Brent Mason
James Burton
Scotty Anderson
Roy Buchanan
Jerry Reed
Carl Perkins
Buddy Holly
Scotty Moore
Ry Cooder
Merle Travis
Roy Clark
Tony Rice
Doc Watson
Norman Blake
Clarence White
Vince Gill
Keith Urban
Dan Crary
Joe Maphis
Mark O'Connor
Hank Snow
Les Paul
Luther Perkins
Pete Drake
Don Reno
Speedy West
Bob Wootton
Buddy Emmons
Jerry Byrd
Leon McAuliffe
Glen Campbell
Flamenco
Paco de Lucia
Jazz
Danny Barker
Charlie Christian
Franco Cerri
Eddie Condon
Al Di Meola
Bill Frisell
Frank Gambale
Jim Hall
Scott Henderson
Allan Holdsworth
Charlie Hunter
Stanley Jordan
Enver Izmailov
Barney Kessel
Eddie Lang
Tony Macalpine
Pat Martino
John McLaughlin
Pat Metheny
Wes Montgomery
Randy Napoleon
Joe Pass
Andreas Paolo Perger
Snoozer Quinn
Django Reinhardt
Marc Ribot
John Scofield
Mike Stern
Andy Summers
Martin Taylor
Szabo Gabor
Herb Ellis
Folk and acoustic
William Ackerman
Dan Ar Braz
Chet Atkins
Joan Baez
Martin Carthy
Ry Cooder
Jim Croce
John Denver
Ani DiFranco
Nick Drake
Doyle Dykes
Bob Dylan
Dave Ellis
John Fahey
Gordon Giltrap
Davey Graham
Michael Hedges
Bert Jansch
Nic Jones
Leo Kottke
Adrian Legg
John Martyn
Ellen McIlwaine
Tony McManus
Joni Mitchell
Tom Paxton
Al Perkins
John Renbourn
Stochelo Rosenberg
Art Paul Schlosser
Patrick Beverley
Paul Simon (Simon and Garfunkel)
James Taylor
Richard Thompson
Doc Watson
Hank Williams
Francois Luambo Makiadi "Franco"
Pierre Bensusan
Blues
Luther Allison
Duane Allman
Blind Blake
Michael Bloomfield
Doyle Bramhall
Big Bill Broonzy
Roy Buchanan
Chris Cain
Eric Clapton
Albert Collins
Ry Cooder
Robert Cray
Steve 'The Colonel' Cropper
Robben Ford
Jesse Fuller
Lowell Fulson
Rory Gallagher
Guitar Shorty
Guitar Slim
Buddy Guy
John Hammond, Jr.