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 Carré
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 Visée (ca 1658-1725) (France)

XIX 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)
José 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)
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)

XX century

Laurindo Almeida (1917-1995)(Brasil)
María Luisa Anido (1907-1996) (Argentina, Spain)
Agustín Pío Barrios (1885-1944) (Paraguay)
Abel Carlevaro (1916-2001) (Uruguay)
Leif Christensen 1950-1988
Alirio Diaz (born 1923)
Dimitri Fampas (1921-1996)
Sila Godoy (born 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)
Andrés Segovia (1893-1987, Spain)
José Tomás (1934-2001)
Narciso Yepes (1927-1997)

Contemporary

Lily Afshar (born 19--) (Iran / U.S.)
Adnan Ahmedic (born 1975) (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Cesar Amaro (born 1948) (Uruguay)
Magnus Andersson (born 1955) (Sweden)
Sergio Assad (born 1952) (Brazil)
Denis Azabagić (born 1972) (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Manuel Barrueco (born 1952) (Cuba)
Gilbert Biberian (born 1944)
Dušan Bogdanović (born 1955) (Yugoslavia now Serbia / U.S.)
Liona Boyd (born 1949)
Julian Bream (born 1933) (United Kingdom)
Leo Brouwer (born 1939) (Cuba)
Charo (born 1951) (Spain)ffz
Máximo Diego Pujol
Carlo Domeniconi (born 1947) (Italy)
Juanjo Domínguez (born 1951) (Argentina)
Zoran Dukic (born 1969) (Croatia)
Roland Dyens (born 1955) (France)
Gabriel Estarellas (Spain)
Roberto Fabbri (born 1964) (Italy)
Eva Fampas (born 1964) (Greece)
Oliver Fartach-Naini (born 1964) (Germany)
Eliot Fisk (born 1958) (U.S. / Austria)
Yorgos Foudoulis (Greece)
José González (Sweden)
Kostas Grigoreas (born 1957) (Greece)
Robin Hill (born 1953) (United Kingdom)
Adam Holzman (born 1960)
Tilman Hoppstock [1](born 1961) (Germany)
Simone Iannarelli (born 1970) (Italy)
Sharon Isbin (born 1956) (U.S.)
Ólavur Jakobsen [2] (born 1964) Faroe Islands
Maria Kämmerling (born 1946)
William Kanengiser (U.S.)
Nikita Koshkin (born 1956) (Russia)
Goran Krivokapić (born 1979) (Serbia)
David Leisner (born 1953) (U.S.
Stephen Marchionda 1967 (U.S. / Spain)
Carlo Marchione (born 1964) (Italy)
Martha Masters (born 1972) (U.S.)
Pablo Márquez (born 1967) (Argentina)
Jaime Mirtenbaum Zenamon
Gentil Montaña (born 1942) (Colombia)
Jorge Morel (born 1931)
Erling Møldrup (born 1943)
Thomas Müller-Pering (born 1958)
Gordon O'Brien (born 1966)
Erkan Ogur (born 1954) (Turkey)
Christopher Parkening (born 1947)
Marco Pereira
Robert Phillips (born 1953) (U.S.)
Álvaro Pierri (Uruguay)
Alberto Ponce (born 1935), (Spain / France)
Stanko Prek
Štěpán Rak (born 1945) (Czech Republic)
Angel Romero (born 1946) (Spain)
Pepe Romero (born 1944) (Spain)
David Russell (born 1953) (United Kingdom (Scotland))
Stephan Schmidt (Germany / Switzerland based)
John Schneider
María Isabel Siewers
Göran Söllscher
David Starobin (born 1951) (U.S.)
Pavel Steidl (born 1961), (Czechoslovakia (now in the Czech Republic)/Netherlands)
David Tanenbaum (born 1956) (U.S.)
Scott Tennant (born 1962) (U.S.)
Ana Vidović (born 1980) (Croatia)
Jerry Willard
John Williams (born 1941) (Australia)
Alan Banks (Australia)
Kazuhito Yamashita (born 1961) (Japan)
Andrew York (U.S.)
Laura Young (Canada)
Yang Xuefei (born 1977) (People's Republic of China)
Simon Cheong (born 1959) (Malaysia)