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Notable bouzouki (the Greek lute) players
- Alec Finn
- Antonis Gavaletakis[17]
- Manolis Hiotis
- Andy Irvine
- Donal Lunny
- Giannis Papaioannou
- Giannis Tatasopoulos
- Babis Tsertos
- Vassilis Tsitsanis
- Markos Vamvakaris
- Nikos Vrachnas
- Giorgos Zambetas
List of classical guitarists
Baroque (17th & 18th century)
- John Dowland (1563–1626) (England)
- Antoine Carré
- Francesco Corbetta (ca 1615–1681)
- Giovanni Battista Granata
- Francisco Guerau
- Luis Milan (c. 1500 – 1561 or possibly later) (Spain)
- Girolamo Montesardo
- Alonso Mudarra (1510–1580)
- Santiago de Murcia (Around 1682 or 1685–1732) (Spain)
- Gaspar Sanz (1640–1710) (Spain)
- Robert de Visée (ca 1658–1725) (France)
19th century
- Dionisio Aguado (1784–1849) (Spain)
- Matteo Carcassi (1792–1853) (Italy)
- Ferdinando Carulli (1770–1841) (Italy)
- Napoléon Coste (1806–1883) (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)
- Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806–1856) (Austrian-based, born in Slovakia.)
- Francesco Molino (1775–1847) (Italy)
- Niccolò 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 Tárrega (1852—1909) (Spanish)
20th century
- This article is a list of notable classical guitarists. For a complete list see the Category classical guitarists.
- 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)
- Leif Christensen 1950–1988
- Alirio Díaz (b. 1923) (Venezuela)
- Cayo Sila Godoy (b. 1919)
- Alexandre Lagoya (1929–1999) (France)
- Antonio Lauro (1917–1986) (Venezuela)
- Miguel Llobet (1878–1938)
- Vahdah Olcott-Bickford (1885-1980) (USA)
- Sergei Orekhov (1935–1998)
- Emilio Pujol (1886–1980) (Spain)
- Ida Presti (1924–1967)
- Celedonio Romero (1913–1996) (Spain)
- Regino Sainz de la Maza (1896–1981) (Spain)
- Andrés Segovia (1893–1987) (Spain)
- José Tomás (1934–2001) (Spain)
- Narciso Yepes (1927–1997) (Spain)
- Frantz Casseus (1915-1993) (Haiti)
Modern
- Lily Afshar (b. 19--) (Iran / U.S.)
- Cesar Amaro (b. 1948-2012) (Uruguay)
- Magnus Andersson (b. 1955) (Sweden)
- Rafael Andia (b. 1942) (France)
- Sergio Assad (b. 1952) (Brazil)
- Evangelos Assimakopoulos (b. 1940) (Greece)
- Denis Azabagic (b. 1972) (Bosnia)
- Alan Banks (Australia)
- Manuel Barrueco (b. 1952) (Cuba)
- Johanna Beisteiner (b. 1976) (Austria)
- Gilbert Biberian (b. 1944)
- Dušan Bogdanović (b. 1955) (Yugoslavia
- Liona Boyd (b. 1949)
- Julian Bream (b. 1933) (United Kingdom)
- Leo Brouwer (b. 1939) (Cuba)
- Frank Bungarten (b. 1958) (Germany)
- Liat Cohen (b. 1971) (Israel)
- John Couch (b. 1976) (New Zealand/Australia)
- Gerard Cousins (Wales)
- Petar Čulić (b. 1986) (Croatia)
- Aniello Desiderio (b. 1971) (Italy)
- Máximo Diego Pujol (Argentina)
- Carlo Domeniconi (b. 1947) (Italy)
- Juanjo Domínguez (b. 1951) (Argentina)
- Zoran Dukic (b. 1969) (Croatia)
- Roland Dyens (b. 1955) (France)
- Richard Charlton (b. 1955) (Australia)
- Marcin Dylla (b. 1976) (Poland)
- Hucky Eichelmann (b. 1956) (Germany/Thailand)
- Gabriel Estarellas (Spain)
- Roberto Fabbri (b. 1964) (Italy)
- Mårten Falk (b. 1973) (Sweden)
- Oliver Fartach-Naini (b. 1964) (Germany)
- Jim Ferguson (b. 1948) (U.S.)
- Eliot Fisk (b. 1958) (U.S. / Austria)
- Yorgos Foudoulis (Greece)
- Ricardo Gallén (b. 1972) (Spain)
- Duo46 Matt Gould (U.S.)
- Gareth Koch (b. 1962) (Australia)
- Timo Korhonen (b. 1964) (Finland)
- Slava Grigoryan (b. 1976) (Australia)
- Nicola Hall (b. 1969) (United Kingdom)
- Tony Harmon (b. 1958) (U.S.)
- Robin Hill (b. 1953) (United Kingdom)
- Evan Hirschelman (U.S.)
- Adam Holzman (b. 1960)
- Tilman Hoppstock (b. 1961) (Germany)
- Simone Iannarelli (b. 1970) (Italy)
- Sharon Isbin (b. 1956) (U.S.)
- Mattias Jacobsson (b. 1984) (Sweden)
- Ólavur Jakobsen (b. 1964) Faroe Islands
- Ekachai Jearakul (b. 1987) (Thailand)[1]
- Maria Kämmerling (b. 1946)
- William Kanengiser (U.S.)
- Hubert Käppel (Germany)
- Milos Karadaglic (Montenegro)
- Peter and Zoltán Katona (b. 1968) (Hungary)
- Patrick Kearney (b. 1970) (Canada)
- Nikita Koshkin (b. 1956) (Russia)
- Leon Koudelak (b. 1961) (Czech Republic / Switzerland / Thailand)
- Goran Krivokapić (b. 1979) (Serbia)
- Irina Kulikova
- Humberto Bruni Lamanna (b. 1957) (Venezuela)
- David Leisner (b. 1953) (U.S.
- Dang Ngoc Long (b. 1957) (Germany/Vietnam)
- Stephen Marchionda 1967 (U.S. / Spain)
- Carlo Marchione (b. 1964) (Italy)
- Pablo Márquez (b. 1967) (Argentina)
- Martha Masters (b. 1972) (U.S.)
- Anders Miolin (b. 1961) (Sweden / Switzerland)
- Jaime Mirtenbaum Zenamon
- Erling Møldrup (b. 1943)
- Gentil Montaña (b. 1942) (Colombia)
- Jorge Morel (b. 1931)
- Thomas Müller-Pering (b. 1958) (Germany)
- Michael Nicolella (b. 1963) (U.S.)
- Gordon O'Brien (b. 1966)
- Erkan Ogur (b. 1954) (Turkey)
- Elie Ossipovitch (France)
- Christopher Parkening (b. 1947)
- Marco Pereira
- Robert Phillips (b. 1953) (U.S.)
- Álvaro Pierri (Uruguay)
- Alberto Ponce (b. 1935), (Spain / France)
- Stanko Prek
- Štěpán Rak (b. 1945) (Czech Republic)
- Charles Ramirez (b. 1953) (United Kingdom)
- Marc Regnier (U.S.)
- Angel Romero (b. 1946) (Spain)
- Pepe Romero (b. 1944) (Spain)
- David Russell (b. 1953) (United Kingdom (Scotland))
- Flavio Sala (b. 1983) (Italy)
- Karin Schaupp (Germany/Australia)
- Stephan Schmidt (Germany / Switzerland based)
- John Schneider
- María Isabel Siewers
- Göran Söllscher
- 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.)
- 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)
- Kazuhito Yamashita (b. 1961) (Japan)
- Yang Xuefei (b. 1977) (People's Republic of China)
- Andrew York (U.S.)
- Laura Young (Canada)
- Liza Zoe (b. 1940) (Greece)