Field
Music
529 figures, most prominent first.
Bob Dylan
songwriter, Nobel laureate
b. 1941
Barbra Streisand
American singer and actress
b. 1942
Marilyn Monroe
film star; convert to Judaism
1926 – 1962
Billy Joel
American singer, songwriter, and pianist
b. 1949
Mel Brooks
American comedian, filmmaker, and actor
b. 1926
Paul Simon
American singer-songwriter
b. 1941
Pink
American singer, songwriter, and actress
b. 1979
Scarlett Johansson
American actress
b. 1984
Adam Sandler
American actor and comedian
b. 1966
Amy Winehouse
English singer-songwriter
1983 – 2011
Neil Diamond
American recording artist; singer-songwriter
b. 1941
William Shatner
Canadian actor
b. 1931
Leonard Cohen
wrote Hallelujah
1934 – 2016
Robert Downey Jr.
the comeback, and Iron Man
b. 1965
Alanis Morissette
Canadian-American singer
b. 1974
Bette Midler
American singer and actress
b. 1945
Carole King
American singer-songwriter and musician
b. 1942
- GP
Gwyneth Paltrow
American actress, entrepreneur, writer and singer
b. 1972
Leonard Bernstein
conductor; wrote West Side Story
1918 – 1990
Richard Rodgers
American composer of songs and Broadway musicals
1902 – 1979
Stephen Sondheim
American composer and lyricist
1930 – 2021
Burt Bacharach
American pianist, composer, producer
1928 – 2023
George Gershwin
American composer and pianist
1898 – 1937
Lou Reed
American rock musician
1942 – 2013
Phil Spector
American record producer
1939 – 2021
Sammy Davis Jr.
American entertainer
1925 – 1990
Barry Manilow
American singer
b. 1943
Hailee Steinfeld
American actress and singer
b. 1996
Jack Black
American actor, comedian, and musician
b. 1969
Kate Hudson
American actress and singer
b. 1979
Randy Newman
American singer-songwriter and pianist
b. 1943
Beck
American musician
b. 1970
Doja Cat
American singer and rapper
b. 1995
Goldie Hawn
American actress
b. 1945
Irving Berlin
American composer and lyricist
1888 – 1989
- JL
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
American actress
b. 1961
Lorenz Hart
American lyricist
1895 – 1943
Allen Ginsberg
American poet and writer
1926 – 1997
Danny Elfman
American film composer
b. 1953
Diane Warren
American songwriter
b. 1956
Felix Mendelssohn
composer; revived Bach
1809 – 1847
Gustav Mahler
stretched the symphony to breaking
1860 – 1911
- JA
Jack Antonoff
American songwriter, singer and record producer
b. 1984
Linda McCartney
American photographer
1941 – 1998
Gene Simmons
Israeli-American musician and songwriter
b. 1949
Jerry Lewis
American comedian, actor and film director
1926 – 2017
Matthew Broderick
American actor
b. 1962
Neil Sedaka
American singer
1939 – 2026
Paula Abdul
American singer, dancer, choreographer, actress
b. 1962
Rick Rubin
American music producer
b. 1963
Danny Kaye
American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian
1913 – 1987
Maya Rudolph
American actress and comedian
b. 1972
Philip Glass
American composer
b. 1937
Adam Lambert
American singer
b. 1982
Alan Arkin
American actor, filmmaker
1934 – 2023
Alan Menken
American composer
b. 1949
Idina Menzel
American actress and singer
b. 1971
James Horner
American film composer and conductor
1953 – 2015
Jennifer Connelly
American actress
b. 1970
Leonard Nimoy
American actor
1931 – 2015
Mandy Moore
American actress and singer
b. 1984
Mayim Bialik
American actress, television personality
b. 1975
Sarah Silverman
American comedian, actress, and writer
b. 1970
Aaron Copland
American composer, composition teacher, writer
1900 – 1990
André Previn
German-American conductor, pianist, and composer
1929 – 2019
Arnold Schoenberg
Austrian-Jewish American composer
1874 – 1951
Art Garfunkel
American singer
b. 1941
Emmy Rossum
American actress
b. 1986
Frank Gehry
Canadian and American architect
1929 – 2025
George Burns
American comedian, actor, writer and singer
1896 – 1996
Herb Alpert
American trumpeter and recording industry executive (born
b. 1935
Mandy Patinkin
American actor and singer
b. 1952
Serge Gainsbourg
French singer, songwriter, composer, writer
1928 – 1991
Stan Getz
American jazz saxophonist
1927 – 1991
Theodor W. Adorno
German philosopher, sociologist and theorist
1903 – 1969
Adam Levine
American singer
b. 1979
Buddy Rich
American jazz drummer and bandleader
1917 – 1987
Henry Rollins
American musician
b. 1961
Ira Gershwin
American lyricist
1896 – 1983
Jason Alexander
American actor, comedian, director and television host
b. 1959
Marvin Hamlisch
American composer and conductor
1944 – 2012
Noah Kahan
American singer-songwriter
b. 1997
Tara Strong
Canadian-American actress
b. 1973
Zoë Kravitz
American actress, director, singer and model
b. 1988
David Cross
American stand-up comedian and actor
b. 1964
David Lee Roth
American singer
b. 1954
Gracie Abrams
American singer-songwriter
b. 1999
Kurt Weill
German composer
1900 – 1950
Matt Stone
American actor, animator and filmmaker
b. 1971
- MT
Mel Tormé
American recording artist
1925 – 1999
Paul Stanley
American rock musician
b. 1952
Stephen Schwartz
American musical theatre lyricist and composer
b. 1948
Al Jolson
American entertainer, actor, and singer
1886 – 1950
Bea Arthur
American actress and comedienne
1922 – 2009
David Arquette
American actor, director and professional wrestler
b. 1971
Dinah Shore
American singer and actress
1916 – 1994
Don Rickles
American stand-up comedian
1926 – 2017
Jack Benny
American comedic entertainer
1894 – 1974
Jakob Dylan
American singer-songwriter
b. 1969
Jerome Kern
American composer of musical theater and popular music
1885 – 1945
Jerry Goldsmith
American film composer
1929 – 2004
Joel Grey
American actor, singer, dancer, director
b. 1932
Katey Sagal
American actress
b. 1954
Michael Landon
American actor and filmmaker
1936 – 1991
Ashley Tisdale
American actress and singer
b. 1985
Bebe Neuwirth
American actress
b. 1958
Boris Pasternak
wrote Doctor Zhivago
1890 – 1960
Cass Elliot
American singer
1941 – 1974
Harold Arlen
American composer of popular music
1905 – 1986
Harry Connick Jr.
American musician and actor
b. 1967
James Newton Howard
American composer and music producer
b. 1951
Madison Beer
American singer
b. 1999
Shel Silverstein
American poet, cartoonist, songwriter
1930 – 1999
Adam Brody
American actor
b. 1979
Amanda Bynes
American actress and fashion designer
b. 1986
Arlo Guthrie
American folk singer
b. 1947
Ben Harper
American singer-songwriter and musician
b. 1969
Gerry Goffin
American lyricist
1939 – 2014
Jacques Offenbach
German-born French composer
1819 – 1880
- JL
Jonathan Larson
American composer and playwright
1960 – 1996
Josh Gad
American actor
b. 1981
- SC
Sammy Cahn
American lyricist, songwriter, musician
1913 – 1993
Stefan Zweig
Austrian writer
1881 – 1942
Alan Jay Lerner
American lyricist and librettist
1918 – 1986
Carole Bayer Sager
American lyricist, singer and songwriter
b. 1947
Daniel Barenboim
Israeli Argentine-born pianist and conductor
b. 1942
Georg Solti
Hungarian-British conductor
1912 – 1997
Gina Gershon
American actress
b. 1962
György Ligeti
Hungarian composer
1923 – 2006
Hal David
American poet and lyricist
1921 – 2012
Helen Reddy
Australian and American singer and actress
1941 – 2020
- HA
Howard Ashman
American playwright and lyricist
1950 – 1991
Jim Croce
American singer-songwriter
1943 – 1973
Jule Styne
British-born American songwriter
1905 – 1994
Richard Kind
American actor
b. 1956
Steve Reich
American composer
b. 1936
- A
Ad-Rock
American rapper, guitarist, and actor
b. 1966
Daryl Hall
American musician
b. 1946
Donald Fagen
American recording artist, musician
b. 1948
Frank Loesser
American songwriter
1910 – 1969
Joey King
American actress
b. 1999
Paul Reiser
American actor
b. 1956
Pauline Kael
American film critic
1919 – 2001
Alana Haim
American musician and actress
b. 1991
Alex Borstein
American actress
b. 1971
Arthur Rubinstein
Polish-American classical pianist
1887 – 1982
Barry Mann
American songwriter and musician
b. 1939
Bernard Herrmann
American composer and conductor
1911 – 1975
Brent Spiner
American actor
b. 1949
Elmer Bernstein
American composer and conductor
1922 – 2004
Jack Albertson
American actor
1907 – 1981
Jack Irons
American drummer
b. 1962
Janis Ian
American singer-songwriter
b. 1951
Jim Steinman
American composer, lyricist and record producer
1947 – 2021
Laura Nyro
American singer and songwriter
1947 – 1997
Lesley Gore
American singer
1946 – 2015
Lou Adler
American record producer, manager and director
b. 1933
Michael Tilson Thomas
American conductor, pianist and composer
1944 – 2026
Pat Smear
American musician and actor
b. 1959
Phil Ochs
American protest singer and songwriter
1940 – 1976
Vladimir Horowitz
Russian/Ukrainian and American pianist
1903 – 1989
Cynthia Weil
American songwriter
1940 – 2023
Hillel Slovak
Israeli-American musician
1962 – 1988
John Kander
American musical theatre composer
b. 1927
Marc Shaiman
American composer and songwriter
b. 1959
Mare Winningham
American actress
b. 1959
Martha Argerich
Argentine pianist
b. 1941
Peggy Lipton
American actress and singer
1946 – 2019
David Shire
American songwriter
b. 1937
Dianna Agron
American actress
b. 1986
Emile Berliner
Invented the flat gramophone disc record
1851 – 1929
Eric Carmen
American singer-songwriter
1949 – 2024
Ilan Rubin
American musician
b. 1988
James Levine
American conductor and pianist
1943 – 2021
Jeff Garlin
American comedian and actor
b. 1962
Julie Kavner
American actress
b. 1950
Kenny Aronoff
American drummer
b. 1953
Lisa Loeb
American musician
b. 1968
Mike D
American hip-hop musician
b. 1965
Mike Posner
American musician
b. 1988
Regina Spektor
American musician
b. 1980
Scott Storch
American record producer and songwriter
b. 1973
Taylor Dayne
American pop singer
b. 1962
Vanessa Carlton
American singer-songwriter
b. 1980
- VY
Victor Young
American composer, arranger, violinist and conductor
1900 – 1956
Adam Schlesinger
American musician
1967 – 2020
Anton Rubinstein
Russian pianist, composer and conductor
1829 – 1894
Arthur Freed
American lyricist and Hollywood film producer
1894 – 1973
- BF
Béla Fleck
American banjo player
b. 1958
Frederick Loewe
Austrian-American composer
1901 – 1988
Giacomo Meyerbeer
German-French composer
1791 – 1864
Jeff Tweedy
American musician
b. 1967
- JM
Johnny Mandel
American composer and arranger of popular songs
1925 – 2020
Judy Holliday
American actress, comedian and singer
1921 – 1965
Mikhail Tal
Soviet-Latvian chess player
1936 – 1992
Richard Lewis
American stand-up comedian
1947 – 2024
Richard Simmons
American fitness instructor and video producer
1948 – 2024
Scott Caan
American actor
b. 1976
Thomas Kail
American musician and theatre director
b. 1978
Yip Harburg
American lyricist
1896 – 1981
David Grisman
American mandolinist, composer, and record label owner
b. 1945
Dorothy Fields
American librettist and lyricist
1905 – 1974
Gus Kahn
German-American lyricist
1886 – 1941
Hal Linden
American actor
b. 1931
Jerry Herman
American composer and lyricist
1931 – 2019
John Corbett
American actor and country music singer
b. 1961
Max Steiner
Austrian-born American music composer and conductor
1888 – 1971
Richard M. Sherman
American composer
1928 – 2024
Robert B. Sherman
American songwriter
1925 – 2012
Tom Lehrer
American musician
1928 – 2025
Aaron Dessner
American songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record pro
b. 1976
- BS
Billy Steinberg
American songwriter
1950 – 2026
David Bryan
American keyboardist
b. 1962
Eddie Fisher
American singer and actor
1928 – 2010
- FE
Fred Ebb
American musical theatre composer
1928 – 2004
Jackie Wilson
American singer
1934 – 1984
Jeff Barry
American pop music songwriter, singer, and record producer
b. 1938
Lainie Kazan
American actress and singer
b. 1942
Melissa Manchester
American singer and actress
b. 1951
Mitch Miller
American record producer and musician
1911 – 2010
- NG
Norman Gimbel
American lyricist of popular songs, television
1927 – 2018
Oneohtrix Point Never
American musician
b. 1982
Perry Farrell
American singer, songwriter and musician
b. 1959
Vladimir Ashkenazy
icelandic pianist and conductor from Russia
b. 1937
Adolph Green
American lyricist and playwright
1914 – 2002
- AN
Alex North
American composer
1910 – 1991
- CF
Charles Fox
American composer for film and television
b. 1940
Emanuel Lasker
Greman chess player, World Chess champion
1868 – 1941
Fritz Kreisler
Austrian violinist and composer
1875 – 1962
Haim Saban
Israeli–American media proprietor, investor
b. 1944
Jonathan Richman
American musician
b. 1951
Lee Konitz
American jazz musician
1927 – 2020
Morton Feldman
American composer
1926 – 1987
- PY
Peter Yarrow
American singer and songwriter
1938 – 2025
Waddy Wachtel
American musician
b. 1947
Aaron Lewis
American musician
b. 1972
Ariel Pink
American musician, singer, and songwriter
b. 1978
Charles-Valentin Alkan
French composer and pianist
1813 – 1888
Cornel Wilde
Hungarian-American actor and film director
1912 – 1989
Cy Coleman
American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist
1929 – 2004
David Rose
English-born American conductor and composer
1910 – 1990
Ellie Greenwich
American pop music singer, songwriter
1940 – 2009
- EG
Eydie Gormé
American pop singer, chanteuse, comic actress
1928 – 2013
- GK
György Kurtág
Hungarian composer
b. 1926
Jax
American singer and songwriter
b. 1996
- JL
Jay Livingston
American composer and singer
1915 – 2001
Lauv
American musician
b. 1994
Lionel Bart
British writer and composer of pop music and musicals
1930 – 1999
Michael Polansky
American businessperson
b. 1983
- PF
Paul Francis Webster
American lyricist
1907 – 1984
Rebecca Sugar
American animator and screenwriter
b. 1987
Scott Ian
American guitarist
b. 1963
Sheldon Harnick
American lyricist and songwriter
1924 – 2023
- AW
Allee Willis
American songwriter, multi-media artist, collector
1947 – 2019
Betty Comden
American librettist, songwriter, actress
1917 – 2006
- BR
Billy Rose
American impresario, theatrical showman and lyricist
1899 – 1966
Cameron Winter
American rock singer
b. 2002
Charles Strouse
American composer and lyricist
1928 – 2025
Daniel Handler
American novelist, also known by the pseudonym Lemony Sni
b. 1970
Doc Pomus
American recording artist; blues singer, lyricist
1925 – 1991
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Austrian-born American composer and conductor
1897 – 1957
Fat Mike
American musician
b. 1967
- G
Grandson
Canadian-American singer
b. 1993
Jay Weinberg
American drummer
b. 1990
- JB
Jerry Bock
American theatre composer
1928 – 2010
John Corigliano
American composer
b. 1938
Leslie West
American singer, guitarist, and songwriter
1945 – 2020
Loren Bouchard
American director and musician
b. 1969
Lorin Maazel
French-American conductor
1930 – 2014
Marc Cohn
American folk rock singer-songwriter and musician
b. 1959
Marc Ribot
American musician
b. 1954
Mikhail Botvinnik
Soviet chess player
1911 – 1995
Peter Wolf
American musician
b. 1946
Rachel Platten
American singer, songwriter and author
b. 1981
- R"
Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal
American guitarist
b. 1969
Tommy Ramone
Hungarian-American drummer
1949 – 2014
Al Cohn
American saxophonist
1925 – 1988
Alfred Newman
American composer
1901 – 1970
- AP
Alisan Porter
American actress and singer
b. 1981
András Schiff
Hungarian-born British musician
b. 1953
Chris Stein
American guitarist
b. 1950
Chuck Schuldiner
American musician
1967 – 2001
Daniel Libeskind
Polish-American architect
b. 1946
DJ AM
American disc jockey
1973 – 2009
Estelle Harris
American actress
1928 – 2022
Fanny Hensel
German pianist and composer
1805 – 1847
Howard Kaylan
American singer
b. 1947
Ignaz Moscheles
bohemian conductor, music educator
1794 – 1870
Jeff Bergman
American voice actor
b. 1960
- JD
Jorge Drexler
Uruguayan singer-songwriter, musician, composer, and actor
b. 1964
- LC
Linda Creed
American songwriter
1948 – 1986
- MG
Mack Gordon
Polish-American composer and lyricist of songs for the st
1904 – 1959
- MW
Matthew Wilder
American musician
b. 1953
Max Weinberg
American drummer
b. 1951
- MG
Michael Gore
American composer
b. 1951
- MM
Moritz Moszkowski
German composer, pianist and teacher
1854 – 1925
- PS
Phoebe Snow
American singer, songwriter and guitarist
1950 – 2011
- RE
Ray Evans
American songwriter
1915 – 2007
- RR
Richard Rudolph
American songwriter, musician, music publisher, and producer
b. 1946
Robert Merrill
American opera singer
1917 – 2004
- SF
Sammy Fain
American composer
1902 – 1989
Shoshana Bean
American theater actress and singer
b. 1977
24kGoldn
American rapper
b. 2000
- AD
Al Dubin
Swiss-American lyricist
1891 – 1945
Alona Tal
Israeli actress and singer
b. 1983
Evgeny Kissin
Russian classical pianist
b. 1971
- FW
Franz Waxman
German film composer
1906 – 1967
George David Weiss
American songwriter and arranger; President of the Songwr
1921 – 2010
- JS
Jill Sobule
American singer-songwriter
1959 – 2025
Joe Dassin
French-American musician
1938 – 1980
- LR
Leonard Rosenman
American composer
1924 – 2008
Lola Kirke
English-born American actress
b. 1990
- MP
Mitchell Parish
American lyricist
1900 – 1993
- MS
Mort Shuman
American songwriter
1936 – 1991
- MG
Morton Gould
American composer, conductor, arranger
1913 – 1996
- NG
Norman Granz
American jazz musician and producer
1918 – 2001
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
American singer and guitarist
b. 1931
- SR
Sigmund Romberg
Hungarian-born American composer
1887 – 1951
- TM
Tony Martin
American actor and singer
1913 – 2012
Wilhelm Steinitz
Austrian-American chess player
1836 – 1900
Buzz Osborne
American musician
b. 1964
- DH
Danielle Haim
American musician
b. 1989
Dave Koz
American saxophonist
b. 1963
Erica Jong
American novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
b. 1942
Este Haim
American musician
b. 1986
George Szell
classical conductor and composer
1897 – 1970
Jeff Lorber
American keyboardist, composer, and record producer
b. 1952
- JB
Jon B.
American R&B singer
b. 1974
Joshua Redman
American jazz saxophonist and composer
b. 1969
Leo Robin
American composer, lyricist and songwriter
1900 – 1984
Miklós Rózsa
Hungarian-American composer
1907 – 1995
- MB
Milton Babbitt
American composer
1916 – 2011
Murray Perahia
American pianist and conductor
b. 1947
Pete Yorn
American musician
b. 1974
Richard Edson
American actor and musician
b. 1954
Władysław Szpilman
Polish pianist, composer, Holocaust survivor
1911 – 2000
Artur Schnabel
Austrian pianist
1882 – 1951
- CS
Carl Sigman
American songwriter and lyricist
1909 – 2000
Howard Greenfield
American lyricist and songwriter
1936 – 1986
- JM
Johnny Marks
American songwriter
1909 – 1985
Keith Morris
American singer
b. 1955
Kinky Friedman
American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician
1944 – 2024
Larry Klein
American music producer, songwriter and bass guitar player
b. c. 1959
Leon Botstein
American scholar, conductor, and educator
b. 1946
Lynn Ahrens
American writer and lyricist
b. 1948
- MD
Mack David
American lyricist and songwriter
1912 – 1993
Monty Hall
Canadian radio and television show host
1921 – 2017
William Finn
American composer
1952 – 2025
Adam Granduciel
American musician
b. 1979
Alex Skolnick
American guitarist
b. 1968
- BL
Burton Lane
American composer and lyricist
1912 – 1997
- CR
Charles Rosen
American pianist and writer on music
1927 – 2012
Ed Ames
American singer and actor
1927 – 2023
Emil Gilels
Soviet pianist
1916 – 1985
Ernest Bloch
American composer
1880 – 1959
Jim Brickman
American composer, recording artist
b. 1961
Julian Lage
American musician
b. 1987
- LS
Lucy Simon
American composer
1940 – 2022
Rain Phoenix
American actress and musician
b. 1972
- RW
Robert Wells
American songwriter
1922 – 1998
Adam Guettel
American composer
b. 1964
Alan Vega
American singer
1938 – 2016
Casey Abrams
American musician and singer
b. 1991
- DL
David Lang
American composer
b. 1957
David Zippel
American musical theatre lyricist, director and producer
b. 1954
DJ Vlad
American interviewer, journalist, and former disc jockey
b. 1973
- EH
Edward Heyman
American lyricist and producer
1907 – 1981
Grigory Sokolov
Russian pianist
b. 1950
Hal Willner
American record producer
c. 1957 – 2020
Kreayshawn
music video director, rapper
b. 1989
Marc Blitzstein
American composer, lyricist, and librettist
1905 – 1964
- MY
Maury Yeston
American composer, lyricist and music theorist
b. 1945
Nick Valensi
American musician, songwriter and guitarist
b. 1981
Phyllis Newman
American actress and singer
1933 – 2019
- SR
Shorty Rogers
American West coast jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist
1924 – 1994
Stella Lefty
American singer-songwriter
b. 2002
Steve Goodman
American folk music singer-songwriter
1948 – 1984
- WS
William Schuman
American composer and arts administrator
1910 – 1992
Avi Kaplan
American singer and songwriter, former member of Pentatonix
b. 1989
Baauer
American DJ and record producer
b. 1989
Dan Lilker
American musician
b. 1964
David Bromberg
American musician
b. 1945
David Yazbek
American composer
b. c. 1960
Emanuel Ax
American pianist
b. 1949
Hilly Kristal
American club owner and musician
1931 – 2007
- JL
Jack Lawrence
American songwriter
1912 – 2009
John Zorn
American composer, saxophonist and bandleader
b. 1953
Kevin DuBrow
American singer
1955 – 2007
- MC
Martin Charnin
American lyricist, writer, and theatre director
1934 – 2019
Mickey Raphael
American harmonica player, music producer and actor
b. 1951
Natasha Shneider
Russian musician
1956 – 2008
- NS
Nicolas Slonimsky
Russian composer
1894 – 1995
P. F. Sloan
American singer and songwriter
1945 – 2015
Radu Lupu
Romanian pianist
1945 – 2022
Raymond Scott
American composer, bandleader, pianist
1908 – 1994
Rudolf Serkin
Bohemian-born American pianist
1903 – 1991
Alec Benjamin
American singer-songwriter
b. 1994
- BR
Buck Ram
American songwriter, music executive
1907 – 1991
Duff Goldman
American chef
b. 1974
- HR
Harry Ruby
American composer and screenwriter
1895 – 1974
- IC
Ingrid Croce
American musician
b. 1947
J. R. Rotem
American record producer
b. 1975
Jesse Malin
American musician
b. 1967
Joe Trohman
American guitarist
b. 1984
Karl Tausig
Polish pianist
1841 – 1871
Larry Taylor
American bassist
1942 – 2019
Leon Fleisher
American conductor and pianist
1928 – 2020
Lukas Foss
American composer
1922 – 2009
- MM
Mike Melvoin
American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger
1937 – 2012
- RA
Richard Adler
American lyricist, writer
1921 – 2012
Scott Putesky
American guitarist
1968 – 2017
Sophie Simmons
American-Canadian singer
b. 1992
Terry Gibbs
American vibraphonist
b. 1924
A. J. Croce
American singer-songwriter
b. 1971
- AW
Allie Wrubel
American composer
1905 – 1973
Ben Weinman
American guitarist
b. 1975
Brenda K. Starr
American musician
b. 1966
- BS
Bruce Sussman
American lyricist and librettist
b. 1949
Dave Liebman
American jazz composer, saxophonist and flautist
b. 1946
David Axelrod
American musician, record producer
1931 – 2017
- DE
Dorian Electra
American singer-songwriter
b. 1992
- EK
Edward Kleban
American composer
1939 – 1987
Fred Hersch
American jazz pianist
b. 1955
Irving Caesar
American composer and lyricist
1895 – 1996
Joey Baron
American avant-garde jazz drummer
b. 1955
- LB
Lew Brown
Russian-American Tin Pan Alley lyricist
1893 – 1958
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
American musician and composer
1829 – 1869
Mel Powell
American composer
1923 – 1998
Menahem Pressler
German-born American classical pianist
1923 – 2023
Mike Einziger
American guitarist
b. 1976
Richard Sennett
American sociologist and academic
b. 1943
- RT
Russ Titelman
American record producer and songwriter
b. 1944
- AM
Arik Marshall
American musician
b. 1967
Avraham Fried
American-Israeli musician
b. 1959
- DS
Dan Spitz
American guitarist
b. 1963
- DD
David D'Or
Israeli singer
b. 1965
- DD
David Diamond
American classical composer
1915 – 2005
- Ea
Eden ahbez
American songwriter and recording artist
1908 – 1995
Efrem Zimbalist
Russian-American violinist, composer, teacher
1889 – 1985
Glen Phillips
American musician
b. 1970
- IG
Irving Gordon
American songwriter
1915 – 1996
- JK
John Kahn
American electric and acoustic bassist
1947 – 1996
Larry Adler
American harmonica player
1914 – 2001
- LA
Lee Adams
American lyricist
1924 – c. 1989
Mark Taimanov
Soviet chess player
1926 – 2016
Max Bemis
American singer
b. 1984
MC Serch
American rapper
b. 1967
Ray Benson
country music musician from the United States
b. 1951
Sam M. Lewis
American singer and lyricist
1885 – 1959
- SB
Steve Barri
American record producer
b. 1942
Steve Khan
American musician
b. 1947
Abbe Lane
American singer and actress
1932 – 2026
- AM
Abel Meeropol
American songwriter
1903 – 1986
- AH
Al Hoffman
Russian-born American song composer
1902 – 1960
- BK
Bert Kalmar
American lyricist
1884 – 1947
- BH
Bob Hilliard
American lyricist
1918 – 1971
- CL
Carolyn Leigh
American lyricist for Broadway, film
1926 – 1983
David Amram
American composer, arranger, and conductor
b. 1930
- DH
David Helfgott
Australian concert pianist
b. 1947
- ES
Elliott Sharp
American musician
b. 1951
Ervin Drake
American songwriter
1919 – 2015
Ezra Furman
American musician
b. 1986
- GB
Georgina Born
Musician, academic, anthropologist
b. 1955
Goapele
American soul and R&B singer-songwriter
b. 1977
- GL
Goddard Lieberson
British-born American composer; record producer
1911 – 1977
Jeff Marx
American composer
b. 1970
Kitty Kallen
American singer
1921 – 2016
Leopold Godowsky
American pianist, composer, and teacher
1870 – 1938
- MR
Malvina Reynolds
American folk singer
1900 – 1978
Mark Sandman
Indie-rock musician, lead singer for band Morphine
1952 – 1999
Mezz Mezzrow
American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist
1899 – 1972
- MW
Michael Wolff
American jazz pianist and composer
b. 1952
- ML
Mitch Leigh
American composer
1928 – 2014
Mordechai Ben David
American-Israeli musician
b. 1951
Murray the K
American DJ
1922 – 1982
Myra Hess
British pianist
1890 – 1965
- NH
Nat Hiken
American radio and television, writer, producer
1914 – 1968
Paul Wittgenstein
Austrian pianist of Jewish heritage
1887 – 1961
Quadeca
American YouTuber and rapper
b. 2000
Sylvain Sylvain
American guitarist
1951 – 2021
Sylvia Fine
American lyricist and songwriter
1913 – 1991
- AD
Adolph Deutsch
British-American composer, conductor and arranger
1897 – 1980
- AL
Andrew Lippa
American composer
b. 1964
Barry Goldberg
American musical artist
1942 – 2025
Bert Parks
American actor and singer
1914 – 1992
- DP
David Pomeranz
American musician
b. 1951
- DF
Debbie Friedman
Jewish American musician
1951 – 2011
Didi Benami
American singer
b. 1986
- FB
Felix Bernard
American conductor, pianist
1897 – 1944
Friedrich Hollaender
London-born German film composer and author
1896 – 1976
- GS
Glenn Slater
American lyricist
b. 1968
- HZ
Hy Zaret
American lyricist and composer
1907 – 2007
Jack Yellen
American lyricist and screenwriter
1892 – 1991
- JL
Jerry Livingston
American songwriter and dance orchestra pianist
1909 – 1987
- JH
Joel Hirschhorn
American songwriter
1937 – 2005
Julie Gold
American musician
b. 1956
Krishna Das
U.S. singer of kirtans
b. 1947
Leopold Auer
Hungarian violinist, conductor and composer
1845 – 1930
- LG
Louise Goffin
American musician
b. 1960
Mark Mendoza
American bassist
b. 1955
- RG
Richard Gottehrer
American songwriter
b. 1940
- RB
Richie Beirach
American jazz pianist and composer
1947 – 2026
- WW
Wendy Waldman
American singer, songwriter, and record producer
b. 1950
- AJ
Aaron Jay Kernis
American composer and professor of music composition
b. 1960
Albert Hague
American songwriter
1920 – 2001
Ann Ronell
American composer and lyricist
1906 – 1993
- AK
Artie Kornfeld
American musician, record producer and music executive
b. 1942
Cisco Adler
musician
b. 1978
David Rosenthal
American musician
b. 1961
- EM
Emile Mosseri
Oscar-nominated composer of Minari
b. 1985
- EW
Eric Weissberg
American musician
1939 – 2020
- GG
Gary Graffman
American musician
1928 – 2025
Gregor Piatigorsky
Ukraine-born American cellist
1903 – 1976
Helen Forrest
American singer
1917 – 1999
- HG
Hélène Grimaud
French pianist
b. 1969
Michelle Chamuel
American singer
b. c. 1986
Nikolai Rubinstein
Russian pianist, conductor and composer
1835 – 1881
Robin Beck
American singer
b. 1954
- S
Subtronics
American DJ and producer
b. 1992
Teddy Charles
American jazz musician and composer
1928 – 2012
Wanda Landowska
Polish-French harpsichordist
1879 – 1959
Yaakov Shwekey
American singer
b. 1977
- AS
Aaron Schroeder
American songwriter, music publisher
1926 – 2009
- AS
Al Stillman
American lyricist
1906 – 1979
Carol Connors
American singer-songwriter
b. 1940
Chad I Ginsburg
American musician
b. 1972
- DK
Domino Kirke
British-American singer
b. 1983
Jeremy Zucker
American singer-songwriter
b. 1996
David Kaufman
American actor and singer
b. 1961