List of classical guitarists

Baroque (17th & 18th century)

Antoine Carré (France)

Francesco Corbetta (c.1615–1681) (Italy)

Giovanni Battista Granata (1620/1–1687) (Italy)

Francisco Guerau (1649–1717/22) (Spain)

Girolamo Montesardo (earyl 17th century) (Italy)

Santiago de Murcia (Around 1682 or 1685–1732) (Spain)

Gaspar Sanz (1640–1710) (Spain)

Robert de Visée (c.1658–1725) (France)

19th century

Dionisio Aguado (1784–1849) (Spain)

Julián Arcas (1832–1882) (Spain)

Eduard Bayer (1822–1908) (Germany)

Jan Nepomucen Bobrowicz (1805–1881) (Poland)

Jacques Bosch (1825–1895) (Spain, France)

José Brocá (1805–1882) (Spain)

Matteo Carcassi (1792–1853) (Italy)

Ferdinando Carulli (1770–1841) (Italy)

Napoléon Coste (1805–1883) (France)

Adam Darr (1811–1866) (Germany)

Antoine de Lhoyer (1768–1852) (France)

José Ferrer (Spain) (1835–1916)

François de Fossa (1775–1849) (Spain, France)

Mauro Giuliani (1781–1829) (Italy)

Joseph Küffner (1776–1856) (Germany)

Luigi Legnani (1790–1877) (Italy)

Wenzel Thomas Matiegka (1773–1830) (Czech Republic)

Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806–1856) (Slovakia, Austria)

Francesco Molino (1775–1847) (Italy)

Simon Molitor (1766–1848) (Germany, Austria)

Ivan Padovec (1800–1873) (Croatia)

Niccolò Paganini (1782–1840) (Italy)

Pierre Jean Porro (1750–1831) (France)

Catharina Josepha Pratten (1821–1895) (Germany, United Kingdom)

Giulio Regondi (1823–1872) (Switzerland, Italy, England)

Luis T. Romero(1854–1893) (USA)

Ernest Shand (1868–1924) (England)

Fernando Sor (1778–1839) (Spain)

Andrei Osipovich Sychra (1773 or 1776–1850) (Russia)

Francisco Tárrega (1852—1909) (Spain)

Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti (1801–1878) (Italy)

20th century

Heinrich Albert (1870–1950) (Germany)

Laurindo Almeida (1917–1995) (Brasil)

María Luisa Anido (1907–1996) (Argentina, Spain)

Agustín Barrios Mangoré (1885–1944) (Paraguay)

Abel Carlevaro (1916–2001) (Uruguay)

Frantz Casseus (1915–1993) (Haiti)

Leif Christensen (1950–1988) (Denmark)

Alirio Díaz (1923–2016) (Venezuela)

Cayo Sila Godoy (1919–2014) (Paraguay)

Alexandre Lagoya (1929–1999) (France)

Antonio Lauro (1917–1986) (Venezuela)

Miguel Llobet (1878–1938) (Spain)

Clara (Cuqui) Nicola (b. 1926) (Cuba)

Vahdah Olcott-Bickford (1885–1980) (USA)

Sergei Orekhov (1935–1998) (Russia)

Stanko Prek (1915–1999) (Slovenia)

Ida Presti (1924–1967) (France)

Emilio Pujol (1886–1980) (Spain)

Celedonio Romero (1913–1996) (Spain)

Regino Sainz de la Maza (1896–1981) (Spain)

Andrés Segovia (1893–1987) (Spain)

Renata Tarragó (1927–2005) (Spain)

José Tomás (1934–2001) (Spain)

Luise Walker (1910–1998) (Austria)

Narciso Yepes (1927–1997) (Spain)

Milan Zelenka (b. 1939) (Czech Republic)

Modern

Adnan Ahmedic (b. 1975) (Bosnia)

Lily Afshar (b. 1960) (Iran, USA)

Cesar Amaro (1948–2012) (Uruguay)

Magnus Andersson (b. 1955) (Sweden)

Rafael Andia (b. 1942) (France)

Alice Artzt (b. 1943) (USA)

Badi Assad (b. 1966) (Brazil)

Sergio Assad (b. 1952) (Brazil)

Evangelos Assimakopoulos (b. 1940) (Greece)

Denis Azabagic (b. 1972) (Bosnia)

Alan Banks (b. 1973) (Australia)

Anastasia Bardina (b. 1962) (Russia)

Manuel Barrueco (b. 1952) (Cuba)

Johanna Beisteiner (b. 1976) (Austria)

Gilbert Biberian (b. 1944) (Turkey, England)

Dušan Bogdanović (b. 1955) (Serbia)

Detlev Bork (b. 1967) (Germany)

Liona Boyd (b. 1949) (Canada)

Julian Bream (b. 1933) (United Kingdom)

Leo Brouwer (b. 1939) (Cuba)

Frank Bungarten (b. 1958) (Germany)

AnnaMaria Cardinalli (b. 1979) (USA)

Jorge Cardoso (b. 1949) (Argentina)

Petrit Ceku (b. 1985) (Kosovo)

Liat Cohen (b. 1971) (France, Israel)

John Couch (b. 1976) (New Zealand, Australia)

Petar Čulić (b. 1986) (Croatia)

Aniello Desiderio (b. 1971) (Italy)

Carlo Domeniconi (b. 1947) (Italy)

Juanjo Domínguez (b. 1951) (Argentina)

Zoran Dukic (b. 1969) (Croatia)

Benjamin Dwyer (b. 1965) (Ireland)

Roland Dyens (1955–2016) (France)

Richard Charlton (b. 1955) (Australia)

Marcin Dylla (b. 1976) (Poland)

Hucky Eichelmann (b. 1956) (Germany, Thailand)

Margarita Escarpa (b. 1964) (Spain)

Gabriel Estarellas (b. 1952) (Spain)

Reinbert Evers (b. 1949) (Germany)

Roberto Fabbri (b. 1964) (Italy)

Mårten Falk (b. 1973) (Sweden)

Oliver Fartach-Naini (b. 1964) (Germany)

John Feeley (b. 1955) (Ireland)

Jim Ferguson (b. 1948) (USA)

Eliot Fisk (b. 1958) (USA, Austria)

Yorgos Foudoulis (b. 1964) (Greece)

Ricardo Gallén (b. 1972) (Spain)

Antigoni Goni (b. 1969) (Greece)

Alejandro González (b.1973) (Cuba)

Slava Grigoryan (b. 1976) (Australia)

Stefano Grondona (b. 1958) (Italy)

Georg Gulyás (b. 1968) (Sweden)

Nicola Hall (b. 1969) (England)

Tony Harmon (b. 1958) (USA)

Robin Hill (b. 1953) (England)

Evan Hirschelman (b. 1976) (USA)

Adam Holzman (b. 1960) (USA)

Tilman Hoppstock (b. 1961) (Germany)

Simone Iannarelli (b. 1970) (Italy)

Milica Ilic (b. 1981) (Australia)

Sharon Isbin (b. 1956) (USA)

Mattias Jacobsson (b. 1984) (Sweden)

Ólavur Jakobsen (b. 1964) (Faroe Islands)

Ekachai Jearakul (b. 1987) (Thailand)

Li Jie (b. 1981) (China)

Maria Kämmerling (b. 1946) (Germany)

William Kanengiser (b. 1959) (USA)

Hubert Käppel (b. 1951) (Germany)

Milos Karadaglic (b. 1983) (Montenegro)

Peter and Zoltán Katona (b. 1968) (Hungary)

Patrick Kearney (b. 1970) (Canada)

Gareth Koch (b. 1962) (Australia)

Timo Korhonen (b. 1964) (Finland)

Nikita Koshkin (b. 1956) (Russia)

Leon Koudelak (b. 1961) (Czech Republic, Switzerland, Thailand)

Goran Krivokapić (b. 1979) (Serbia])

Annette Kruisbrink (b. 1958) (Netherlands)

Irina Kulikova (b. 1982) (Russia)

Humberto Bruni Lamanna (b. 1957) (Venezuela)

Michael Laucke (b. 1947) (Canada)

David Leisner (b. 1953) (USA)

Dang Ngoc Long (b. 1957) (Germany, Vietnam)

Stephen Marchionda (b. 1967) (USA, Spain)

Carlo Marchione (b. 1964) (Italy)

Pablo Márquez (b. 1967) (Argentina)

Martha Masters (b. 1972) (USA)

Heike Matthiesen (b. 1969) (Germany)

Su Meng (b. 1988) (China)

Anders Miolin (b. 1961) (Sweden, Switzerland)

Erling Møldrup (b. 1943) (Denmark)

Gentil Montaña (b. 1942) (Colombia)

Jorge Morel (b. 1931) (Argentina, USA)

Filomena Moretti (b. 1973) (Italy)

Thomas Müller-Pering (b. 1958) (Germany)

Kaori Muraji (b. 1978) (Japan)

Michael Nicolella (b. 1963) (USA)

Gordon O'Brien (b. 1966) (Canada)

Erkan Ogur (b. 1954) (Turkey)

Elie Ossipovitch (b. 1987) (France)

Kyuhee Park (b. 1985) (South Korea)

Christopher Parkening (b. 1947) (USA)

Marco Pereira (b. 1950) (Brazil)

Robert Phillips (b. 1953) (USA)

Álvaro Pierri (b. 1953) (Uruguay)

Alberto Ponce (b. 1935) (Spain, France)

Máximo Diego Pujol (b. 1957) (Argentina)

Štěpán Rak (b. 1945) (Czech Republic)

Charles Ramirez (b. 1953) (United Kingdom)

Marc Regnier (b. 19??) (USA)

Berta Rojas (b. 1966) (Paraguay)

Angel Romero (b. 1946) (Spain)

Pepe Romero (b. 1944) (Spain)

Monika Rost (b. 1943) (Germany)

David Russell (b. 1953) (Scotland)

Flavio Sala (b. 1983) (Italy)

Karin Schaupp (b. 1972) (Germany, Australia)

John Schneider (b. 1950) (USA)

Chen Shanshan (b. 1983) (China)

Sean Shibe, (b. 1992) (Scotland)

María Isabel Siewers (b. 1950) (Argentina)

Göran Söllscher (b. 1950) (Sweden)

David Starobin (b. 1951) (USA)

Pavel Steidl (b. 1961) (Czech Republic, Netherlands)

David Tanenbaum (b. 1956) (USA)

Scott Tennant (b. 1962) (USA)

Marko Topchii (b. 1991) (Ukraine)

Michael Tröster (b. 1956) (Germany)

Ana Vidović (b. 1980) (Croatia)

Jason Vieaux (b. 1973) (U.S.)

John Williams (b. 1941) (Australia, England)

Kazuhito Yamashita (b. 1961) (Japan)

Wang Yameng (b. 1981) (China)

Yang Xuefei (b. 1977) (People's Republic of China)

Stanley Yates (b. 1958) (England, USA)

Andrew York (b. 1958) (USA)

Laura Young (b. 1962) (Canada)

Jaime Mirtenbaum Zenamon (b. 1953) (Bolivia)

Liza Zoe (b. 1940) (Greece)