Notable Musicians
This list is comprised of some of the most recognizable names from the world of music. Included are composers, musicians and singers.
| Name | Lifespan | Other Names | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arion | ?-5xx BC |  | |
| Guido of Arezzo | c. 991-c. 1035 | | |
| Hildegard of Bingen | 1098-1179 | | |
| Amir Khusrau | 1253-1325 | | |
| Guillaume de Machaut | c. 1300-1377 | | |
| Josquin des Prez | c. 1450-1521 | (Desprez) | |
| Jacquet of Mantua | 1483-1559 | (Colebault) | |
| Clément Janequin | c. 1485-1558 | | |
| Claudin de Sermisy | c. 1490-1562 | | |
| Jacquet de Berchem | c. 1505-15xx | (Berchem) | |
| Jacques Arcadelt | c. 1507-1568 | | |
| Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina | c. 1525-1594 | | |
| Orlande de Lassus | c. 1532-1594 | (di Lasso) | |
| Luzzasco Luzzaschi | c. 1545-1607 | | |
| Tomás Luis de Victoria | 1548-1611 | | |
| Giovanni Gabrieli | c. 1554-1612 | | |
| Jacopo Peri | 1561-1633 | | |
| Claudio Monteverdi | 1567-1643 | | |
| Heinrich Schütz | 1585-1672 | | |
| Francesco Cavalli | 1602-1676 | | |
| Jean-Baptiste Lully | 1632-1687 | (Lulli) | |
| Dieterich Buxtehude | 1637-1707 | | |
| Marc-Antoine Charpentier | 1643-1704 | | |
| Arcangelo Corelli | 1653-1713 | | |
| Johann Pachelbel | 1653-1706 | | |
| Ludovico Roncalli | 1654-1713 | | |
| Henry Purcell | 1659-1695 | | |
| Alessandro Scarlatti | 1660-1725 | | |
| Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet | 1665-1729 | | |
| François Couperin | 1668-1733 | | |
| Turlough O'Carolan | 1670-1738 | | |
| Tomaso Albinoni | 1671-1751 | | |
| Jeremiah Clarke | c. 1674-1707 | | |
| Antonio Vivaldi | 1678-1741 | | |
| Jan Dismas Zelenka | 1679-1745 | | |
| Georg Philipp Telemann | 1681-1767 | | |
| Jean-Philippe Rameau | 1683-1764 | | |
| Georg Friedrich Händel | 1685-1759 | | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach | 1685-1750 | | |
| Domenico Scarlatti | 1685-1757 | | |
| Giuseppe Tartini | 1692-1770 | | |
| Louis-Claude Daquin | 1694-1772 | | |
| Johann Adolph Hasse | 1699-1783 | | |
| Michel Blavet | 1700-1768 | | |
| Farinelli | 1705-1782 | (Broschi) | |
| Johann Adolf Scheibe | 1708-1776 | | |
| Giovanni Battista Pergolesi | 1710-1736 | | |
| Thomas Arne | 1710-1778 | | |
| Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach | 1714-1788 | | |
| Christoph Willibald Gluck | 1714-1787 | | |
| Leopold Mozart | 1719-1787 | | |
| Dismas Hataš | 1724-1777 | | |
| Niel Gow | 1727-1807 | | |
| Pasquale Anfossi | 1727-1797 | | |
| Joseph Haydn | 1732-1809 | | |
| François-Joseph Gossec | 1734-1829 | | |
| Johann Christian Bach | 1735-1782 | | |
| Luigi Boccherini | 1743-1805 | | |
| Charles Dibdin | 1745-1814 | | |
| Antonio Salieri | 1750-1825 | | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 1756-1791 | | |
| Luigi Cherubini | 1760-1842 | | |
| Michał Kleofas Ogiński | 1765-1833 | | |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | 1770-1827 | (Beethoven) | |
| Niccolò Paganini | 1782-1840 | | |
| Carl Maria von Weber | 1786-1826 | | |
| Carl Czerny | 1791-1857 | | |
| Gioachino Rossini | 1792-1868 | | |
| Franz Berwald | 1796-1868 | | |
| Franz Schubert | 1797-1828 | | |
| Gaetano Donizetti | 1797-1848 | | |
| Fromental Halévy | 1799-1862 | | |
| Ferdo Livadić | 1799-1879 | (Wiesner) | |
| Adolf Fredrik Lindblad | 1801-1878 | | |
| Vincenzo Bellini | 1801-1835 | | |
| Adolphe Adam | 1803-1856 | | |
| Hector Berlioz | 1803-1869 | | |
| Johann Strauss I | 1804-1849 | | |
| Mikhail Glinka | 1804-1857 | | |
| Fanny Mendelssohn | 1805-1847 | | |
| Maria Malibran | 1808-1836 | | |
| Felix Mendelssohn | 1809-1847 | | |
| Frédéric Chopin | 1810-1849 | | |
| Robert Schumann | 1810-1856 | | |
| Franz Liszt | 1811-1886 | | |
| Richard Wagner | 1813-1883 | | |
| Giuseppe Verdi | 1813-1901 | | |
| Adolf von Henselt | 1814-1889 | (Henselt) | |
| Charles Gounod | 1818-1893 | | |
| Jacques Offenbach | 1819-1880 | | |
| Clara Schumann | 1819-1896 | | |
| Jenny Lind | 1820-1887 | | |
| César Franck | 1822-1890 | | |
| Bedřich Smetana | 1824-1884 | | |
| Anton Bruckner | 1824-1896 | | |
| Hervé | 1825-1892 | (Ronger) | |
| Johann Strauss II | 1825-1899 | | |
| Anton Rubinstein | 1829-1894 | | |
| Henry Clay Work | 1832-1884 | | |
| Johannes Brahms | 1833-1897 | | |
| Alexander Borodin | 1833-1887 | | |
| Ema Pukšec | 1834-1889 | | |
| César Cui | 1835-1918 | | |
| Camille Saint-Saëns | 1835-1921 | | |
| Léo Delibes | 1836-1891 | | |
| Mily Balakirev | 1837-1910 | | |
| Adolf Jensen | 1837-1879 | | |
| Georges Bizet | 1838-1875 | | |
| Modest Mussorgsky | 1839-1881 | | |
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | 1840-1893 | | |
| Antonín Dvořák | 1841-1904 | | |
| Mykola Lysenko | 1842-1912 | | |
| Jules Massenet | 1842-1912 | | |
| Arthur Sullivan | 1842-1900 | | |
| Edvard Grieg | 1843-1907 | | |
| Pablo de Sarasate | 1844-1908 | | |
| Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | 1844-1908 | (Korsakow) | |
| Gabriel Fauré | 1845-1924 | | |
| Hubert Parry | 1848-1918 | | |
| Adolph Brodsky | 1851-1929 | (Brodskij, Brodskiy) | |
| Leoš Janáček | 1854-1928 | | |
| Engelbert Humperdinck | 1854-1921 | | |
| John Philip Sousa | 1854-1932 | | |
| Ruggero Leoncavallo | 1857-1919 | | |
| Edward Elgar | 1857-1934 | | |
| Giacomo Puccini | 1858-1924 | | |
| Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov | 1859-1935 | | |
| Emanuil Manolov | 1860-1902 | | |
| Isaac Albéniz | 1860-1909 | | |
| Gustave Charpentier | 1860-1956 | | |
| Gustav Mahler | 1860-1911 | | |
| Edward MacDowell | 1860-1908 | | |
| Frederick Delius | 1862-1934 | | |
| Claude Debussy | 1862-1918 | | |
| Meliton Balanchivadze | 1862-1937 | | |
| Pietro Mascagni | 1863-1945 | | |
| Milka Trnina | 1863-1941 | (Ternina) | |
| Richard Strauss | 1864-1949 | | |
| Paul Dukas | 1865-1935 | | |
| Jean Sibelius | 1865-1957 | | |
| Erik Satie | 1866-1925 | | |
| Scott Joplin | c. 1867-1917 | | |
| Arturo Toscanini | 1867-1957 | | |
| Amy Beach | 1867-1944 | | |
| Franz Lehár | 1870-1948 | | |
| Aleksandr Skriabin | 1871-1915 | (Scriabin) | |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | 1872-1958 | | |
| Feodor Chaliapin | 1873-1938 | (Shalyapin) | |
| Enrico Caruso | 1873-1921 | | |
| Sergei Rachmaninoff | 1873-1943 | | |
| Arnold Schoenberg | 1874-1951 | (Schönberg) | |
| Gustav Holst | 1874-1934 | | |
| Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis | 1875-1911 | | |
| Maurice Ravel | 1875-1937 | | |
| Pablo Casals | 1876-1973 | (Defilló) | |
| Adolf Wiklund | 1879-1950 | | |
| Béla Bartók | 1881-1945 | | |
| Geraldine Farrar | 1882-1967 | | |
| Igor Stravinsky | 1882-1971 | | |
| Percy Grainger | 1882-1961 | | |
| Anton Webern | 1883-1945 | | |
| Jerome Kern | 1885-1945 | | |
| Alban Berg | 1885-1935 | | |
| Üzeyir Hacıbəyov | 1885-1948 | (Hajibeyov) | |
| Dooley Wilson | 1886-1953 | | |
| Al Jolson | 1886-1950 | (Yoelson) | |
| Arthur Rubinstein | 1887-1982 | | |
| Eubie Blake | 1887-1983 | | |
| Luckey Roberts | 1887-1968 | | |
| Nadia Boulanger | 1887-1979 | | |
| Max Steiner | 1888-1971 | | |
| Irving Berlin | 1888-1989 | | |
| Maurice Chevalier | 1888-1972 | | |
| Noble Sissle | 1889-1975 | | |
| Stanley Holloway | 1890-1982 | | |
| Carlos Gardel | 1890-1935 | | |
| Sergei Prokofiev | 1891-1953 | | |
| Cole Porter | 1891-1964 | | |
| Adolf Busch | 1891-1952 | | |
| Fanny Brice | 1891-1951 | (Borach) | |
| Sayed Darwish | 1892-1923 | | |
| Willie "The Lion" Smith | 1893-1973 | (Bertholf) | |
| Isham Jones | 1894-1956 | | |
| James P. Johnson | 1894-1955 | | |
| Viorica Ursuleac | 1894-1985 | | |
| Bessie Smith | 1894-1937 | | |
| Peter Warlock | 1894-1930 | (Heseltine) | |
| Lucille Hegamin | 1894-1970 | (Nelson) | |
| William Grant Still | 1895-1978 | | |
| Carl Orff | 1895-1982 | | |
| Oscar Hammerstein II | 1895-1960 | | |
| Jakov Gotovac | 1895-1982 | | |
| Paul Hindemith | 1895-1963 | | |
| Andy Razaf | 1895-1973 | (Razafinkarefo) | |
| Ethel Waters | 1896-1977 | | |
| Ruth Etting | 1896-1978 | | |
| Virgil Thomson | 1896-1989 | | |
| Marian Anderson | 1897-1993 | | |
| Jimmie Rodgers | 1897-1933 | | |
| Fletcher "Smack" Henderson | 1897-1952 | | |
| Claire Born | 1898-1965 | | |
| George Gershwin | 1898-1937 | (Gershwine) | |
| Lotte Lenya | 1898-1981 | (Blamauer, Lenja) | |
| Umm Kulthum | 1898-1975 | (as-Sayed, el-Beltagi) | |
| Edward "Duke" Ellington | 1899-1974 | | |
| Hoagy Carmichael | 1899-1981 | | |
| Noël Coward | 1899-1973 | | |
| Münir Nurettin Selçuk | 1900-1981 | | |
| Kurt Weill | 1900-1950 | | |
| Aaron Copland | 1900-1990 | | |
| Nelson Eddy | 1901-1967 | | |
| Rudy Vallée | 1901-1986 | | |
| Louis Armstrong | 1901-1971 | | |
| Adelaide Hall | 1901-1993 | | |
| Mohammed Abdel Wahab | 1902-1991 | (Abd El-Wahhab) | |
| Jimmie Lunceford | 1902-1947 | | |
| Richard Rodgers | 1902-1979 | | |
| Vladimir Horowitz | 1903-1989 | | |
| Harry "Bing" Crosby | 1903-1977 | | |
| Aram Khachaturian | 1903-1978 | | |
| Jeanette MacDonald | 1903-1965 | | |
| Johannes Heesters | 1903-2011 | | |
| Earl Hines | 1903-1983 | | |
| Glenn Miller | 1904-1944 | | |
| Thomas "Fats" Waller | 1904-1943 | | |
| Phil Harris | 1904-1995 | | |
| Maria von Trapp | 1905-1987 | | |
| Ozzie Nelson | 1906-1975 | | |
| Zinka Milanov | 1906-1989 | (Kunc) | |
| Andria Balanchivadze | 1906-1992 | | |
| Josephine Baker | 1906-1975 | | |
| Dmitri Shostakovich | 1906-1975 | | |
| Zari Elmassian | 1906-1990 | (Vartian) | |
| Gene Autry | 1907-1998 | | |
| Cab Calloway | 1907-1994 | | |
| Ethel Merman | 1908-1984 | (Zimmermann) | |
| Herbert von Karajan | 1908-1989 | (Karajan) | |
| Tito Guízar | 1908-1999 | (Tolentino) | |
| Olivier Messiaen | 1908-1992 | | |
| Carmen Miranda | 1909-1955 | (da Cunha) | |
| Eddy Duchin | 1909-1951 | | |
| Benny Goodman | 1909-1986 | | |
| Miliza Korjus | 1909-1980 | | |
| Django Reinhardt | 1910-1953 | | |
| Samuel Barber | 1910-1981 | | |
| Carmine Coppola | 1910-1991 | | |
| Willie Smith | 1910-1967 | | |
| Imperio Argentina | 1910-2003 | (Nile, del Río) | |
| Danny Kaye | 1911-1987 | (Kaminsky) | |
| Robert Johnson | 1911-1938 | | |
| "Big" Joe Turner | 1911-1985 | | |
| Bill Monroe | 1911-1996 | | |
| Jorge Negrete | 1911-1953 | (Moreno) | |
| Nino Rota | 1911-1979 | (Rinaldi) | |
| Władysław Szpilman | 1911-2000 | | |
| André Claveau | 1911-2003 | | |
| Woody Guthrie | 1912-1967 | | |
| John Cage | 1912-1992 | | |
| Muddy Waters | 1913-1983 | (Morganfield) | |
| Woody Herman | 1913-1987 | | |
| Sylvia Fine | 1913-1991 | (Kaye) | |
| Raimond Valgre | 1913-1949 | (Tiisel) | |
| Benjamin Britten | 1913-1976 | | |
| Tony Martin | 1913-2012 | (Morris) | |
| Dorival Caymmi | 1914-2008 | | |
| Adolph Green | 1914-2002 | | |
| Sister Rosetta Tharpe | 1915-1973 | (Atkins, Nubin) | |
| Boy Edgar | 1915-1980 | | |
| Billie Holiday | 1915-1959 | (Harris) | |
| Les Paul | 1915-2009 | | |
| Frank Sinatra | 1915-1998 | | |
| Édith Piaf | 1915-1963 | | |
| Yehudi Menuhin | 1916-1999 | | |
| Dinah Shore | 1916-1994 | | |
| Bismillah Khan | 1916-2006 | | |
| M. S. Subbulakshmi | 1916-2004 | | |
| Toon Hermans | 1916-2000 | | |
| Vera Lynn | 1917-2020 | | |
| Ella Fitzgerald | 1917-1996 | | |
| Dean Martin | 1917-1995 | | |
| Wim Sonneveld | 1917-1974 | | |
| Lena Horne | 1917-2010 | | |
| John Lee Hooker | 1917-2001 | | |
| Thelonious Monk | 1917-1982 | | |
| John "Dizzy" Gillespie | 1917-1993 | | |
| Jo Stafford | 1917-2008 | | |
| Pedro Infante | 1917-1957 | (Cruz) | |
| Elmore James | 1918-1963 | (Brooks) | |
| Pearl Bailey | 1918-1990 | | |
| Birgit Nilsson | 1918-2005 | | |
| Leonard Bernstein | 1918-1990 | | |
| Dick Haymes | 1918-1980 | | |
| Lucille Dumont | 1919-2016 | | |
| Nat "King" Cole | 1919-1965 | | |
| Pete Seeger | 1919-2014 | | |
| Anita O'Day | 1919-2006 | (Colton) | |
| Yara Bernette | 1920-2002 | (Epstein) | |
| Ravi Shankar | 1920-2012 | (Shaunkor, Chowdhury) | |
| Peggy Lee | 1920-2002 | (Egstrom) | |
| Amália Rodrigues | 1920-1999 | (Rebordão) | |
| Charlie Parker | 1920-1955 | | |
| Dave Brubeck | 1920-2012 | | |
| Ástor Piazzolla | 1921-1992 | | |
| Darío Moreno | 1921-1968 | (Arugete) | |
| Edvard Mirzoyan | 1921-2012 | | |
| Kitty Kallen | 1921-2016 | | |
| Phạm Duy | 1921-2013 | | |
| Yves Montand | 1921-1991 | | |
| Georges Brassens | 1921-1981 | | |
| Deanna Durbin | 1921-2013 | | |
| Bhimsen Joshi | 1922-2011 | | |
| Bobby Capó | 1922-1989 | (Rodríguez) | |
| Renata Tebaldi | 1922-2004 | | |
| Doris Day | 1922-2019 | (Kappelhoff) | |
| Elmer Bernstein | 1922-2004 | | |
| Gale Storm | 1922-2009 | (Cottle) | |
| Charles Mingus | 1922-1979 | | |
| Judy Garland | 1922-1969 | | |
| Yvonne De Carlo | 1922-2007 | (Middleton) | |
| Yma Sumac | 1922-2008 | (Chávarri, del Castillo) | |
| Victoria de los Ángeles | 1923-2005 | (López, García) | |
| Lola Flores | 1923-1995 | (Ruiz) | |
| Celeste Rodrigues | 1923-2018 | (Rebordão) | |
| Shoshana Damari | 1923-2006 | | |
| György Ligeti | 1923-2006 | | |
| Rose Marie | 1923-2017 | (Mazzetta) | |
| Hank Williams | 1923-1953 | | |
| Văn Cao | 1923-1995 | (Nguyễn) | |
| Maria Callas | 1923-1977 | (Kalogeropoulos) | |
| Lys Assia | 1924-2018 | (Schärer) | |
| Angela Morley | 1924-2009 | (Stott) | |
| Sarah Vaughan | 1924-1990 | | |
| Milko Kelemen | 1924-2018 | | |
| Henry Mancini | 1924-1994 | | |
| Franz Mazura | 1924-2020 | | |
| Theodore Bikel | 1924-2015 | | |
| Charles Aznavour | 1924-2018 | (Aznavourian) | |
| Rajka Vali | 1924-2011 | (Raukar) | |
| Maurice Jarre | 1924-2009 | | |
| Altamiro Carrilho | 1924-2012 | (Aquino) | |
| Mohammed Rafi | 1924-1980 | | |
| Pierre Boulez | 1925-2016 | | |
| Marius Constant | 1925-2004 | | |
| Jørgen Ingmann | 1925-2015 | (Pedersen) | |
| Bobbejaan Schoepen | 1925-2010 | | |
| Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | 1925-2012 | | |
| Bill Haley | 1925-1981 | | |
| Mikis Theodorakis | 1925-2021 | | |
| Sulkhan Tsintsadze | 1925-1991 | | |
| Jimmy Reed | 1925-1976 | | |
| Charlie Byrd | 1925-1999 | | |
| B.B. King | 1925-2015 | | |
| Miljenko Prohaska | 1925-2014 | | |
| Johnny Mandel | 1925-2020 | | |
| Hildegard Knef | 1925-2002 | (Neff) | |
| George Martin | 1926-2016 | | |
| O. P. Nayyar | 1926-2007 | | |
| José Alfredo Jiménez | 1926-1973 | (Sandoval) | |
| Teddy Scholten | 1926-2010 | (van Zwieteren) | |
| Miles Davis | 1926-1991 | | |
| Tony Bennett | 1926-2023 | (Benedetto) | |
| John Coltrane | 1926-1967 | | |
| Julie London | 1926-2000 | (Peck) | |
| Willy Alberti | 1926-1985 | | |
| Chuck Berry | 1926-2017 | | |
| Joan Sutherland | 1926-2010 | | |
| Alfredo Kraus | 1927-1999 | | |
| Mstislav Rostropovich | 1927-2007 | | |
| Eartha Kitt | 1927-2008 | | |
| Antônio Carlos Jobim | 1927-1994 | | |
| Stan Getz | 1927-1991 | (Gayetski) | |
| Juliette Gréco | 1927-2020 | | |
| Leontyne Price | 1927- | | |
| Harry Belafonte | 1927-2023 | (Bellanfanti) | |
| Attila Zoller | 1927-1998 | | |
| Al Martino | 1927-2009 | (Cini) | |
| Jean-Claude Pascal | 1927-1992 | (Villeminot) | |
| Gilbert Bécaud | 1927-2001 | | |
| Cleo Laine | 1927- | (Campbell) | |
| Patti Page | 1927-2013 | (Fowler) | |
| Hank Ballard | 1927-2003 | (Kendricks) | |
| Ram Narayan | 1927- | | |
| Leyla Gencer | 1928-2008 | | |
| Domenico Modugno | 1928-1994 | | |
| Ruth Brown | 1928-2006 | | |
| Antoine "Fats" Domino | 1928-2017 | | |
| Sara Montiel | 1928-2013 | (Abad, Fernández) | |
| Serge Gainsbourg | 1928-1991 | | |
| Tom Lehrer | 1928- | | |
| Burt Bacharach | 1928-2023 | | |
| Rosemary Clooney | 1928-2002 | | |
| Vic Damone | 1928-2018 | (Farinola) | |
| Eddie Fisher | 1928-2010 | | |
| Eydie Gormé | 1928-2013 | (Gormezano) | |
| Karlheinz Stockhausen | 1928-2007 | | |
| Ennio Morricone | 1928-2020 | | |
| Ernestine Anderson | 1928-2016 | | |
| Bo Diddley | 1928-2008 | (Bates) | |
| Hal Blaine | 1929-2019 | (Belsky) | |
| Jerry Goldsmith | 1929-2004 | | |
| Cecil Taylor | 1929-2018 | | |
| Jacques Brel | 1929-1978 | | |
| James Last | 1929-2015 | | |
| Evangelina Elizondo | 1929-2017 | (López-Llera) | |
| Lennie Niehaus | 1929-2020 | | |
| James Shigeta | 1929-2014 | | |
| Abdel Halim Hafez | 1929-1977 | (Shabana) | |
| José Afonso | 1929-1987 | | |
| Lata Mangeshkar | 1929-2022 | | |
| LaVern Baker | 1929-1997 | | |
| Viguen | 1929-2003 | (Derderian, Terterian) | |
| Chet Baker | 1929-1988 | | |
| Munir Bashir | 1930-1997 | | |
| Bobby Bland | 1930-2013 | (Brooks) | |
| Stephen Sondheim | 1930-2021 | | |
| Heather Harper | 1930-2019 | | |
| Sally Ann Howes | 1930-2021 | | |
| Ray Charles | 1930-2004 | (Robinson) | |
| Michiya Mihashi | 1930-1996 | | |
| Sam Cooke | 1931-1964 | | |
| Mamie Van Doren | 1931- | (Olander) | |
| Margareta Hallin | 1931-2020 | (Ekerot) | |
| João Gilberto | 1931-2019 | (Prado, Pereira, de Oliveira) | |
| Della Reese | 1931-2017 | | |
| George Jones | 1931-2013 | | |
| Nello Santi | 1931-2020 | | |
| Diana Dors | 1931-1984 | (Fluck) | |
| Ike Turner | 1931-2007 | | |
| John Williams | 1932- | | |
| Johnny Cash | 1932-2003 | | |
| Don Francks | 1932-2016 | | |
| Miriam "Mama Africa" Makeba | 1932-2008 | | |
| Lola Beltrán | 1932-1996 | (Ruiz) | |
| Debbie Reynolds | 1932-2016 | | |
| Carl Perkins | 1932-1998 | | |
| Loretta Lynn | 1932-2022 | | |
| Eddy Wally | 1932-2016 | (Van De Walle) | |
| Patsy Cline | 1932-1963 | (Hensley) | |
| Glenn Gould | 1932-1982 | | |
| Anatoliy Solovianenko | 1932-1999 | | |
| Victor Jara | 1932-1973 | | |
| Clyde McPhatter | 1932-1972 | | |
| Petula Clark | 1932- | | |
| Corry Brokken | 1932-2016 | | |
| Little Richard | 1932-2020 | (Penniman) | |
| Charlie Rich | 1932-1995 | | |
| Dalida | 1933-1987 | (Gigliotti) | |
| Yoko Ono | 1933- | | |
| Nina Simone | 1933-2003 | (Waymon) | |
| Lloyd Price | 1933-2021 | | |
| Quincy Jones | 1933- | | |
| Teresa Berganza | 1933-2022 | | |
| Montserrat Caballé | 1933-2018 | | |
| Willie Nelson | 1933- | | |
| James Brown | 1933-2006 | | |
| Claudio Abbado | 1933-2014 | | |
| Ramses Shaffy | 1933-2009 | | |
| John Barry | 1933-2011 | | |
| Krzysztof Penderecki | 1933-2020 | | |
| Henryk Górecki | 1933-2010 | | |
| Georges Moustaki | 1934-2013 | (Mustacchi) | |
| Cedar Walton | 1934-2013 | | |
| Otis Rush | 1934-2018 | | |
| Frankie Valli | 1934- | (Castelluccio) | |
| Suthep Wongkamhaeng | 1934-2020 | | |
| Pat Boone | 1934- | | |
| Jackie Wilson | 1934-1984 | | |
| Mieke Telkamp | 1934-2016 | (Telgenkamp) | |
| Leonard Cohen | 1934-2016 | | |
| Udo Jürgens | 1934-2014 | (Bockelmann) | |
| Nana Mouskouri | 1934- | | |
| Willi Tokarev | 1934-2019 | | |
| Rudi Carrell | 1934-2006 | (Kesselaar) | |
| Del Shannon | 1934-1990 | (Westover) | |
| Noam Sheriff | 1935-2018 | | |
| Elvis Presley | 1935-1977 | | |
| Gene Vincent | 1935-1971 | (Craddock) | |
| Sonny Bono | 1935-1998 | | |
| Ciarán Bourke | 1935-1988 | | |
| Mirella Freni | 1935-2020 | (Fregni) | |
| Pierre Kartner | 1935-2022 | | |
| Steve Lawrence | 1935- | (Liebowitz) | |
| Mercedes Sosa | 1935-2009 | | |
| Sabahudin Kurt | 1935-2018 | | |
| Joe Tex | 1935-1982 | (Arrington, Hazziez) | |
| Arvo Pärt | 1935- | | |
| Jerry Lee Lewis | 1935-2022 | | |
| Johnny Mathis | 1935- | | |
| Luciano Pavarotti | 1935-2007 | | |
| Alain Barrière | 1935-2019 | (Bellec) | |
| Fairuz | 1935- | (Haddad) | |
| Ivica Šerfezi | 1935-2004 | | |
| Naseem Begum | 1936-1971 | | |
| Roger Whittaker | 1936-2023 | | |
| Glen Campbell | 1936-2017 | | |
| Roy Orbison | 1936-1988 | | |
| Zubin Mehta | 1936- | | |
| Bobby Darin | 1936-1973 | (Cassotto) | |
| Maysa Matarazzo | 1936-1977 | (Figueira, Monjardim) | |
| Kris Kristofferson | 1936-2024 | | |
| Rex Gildo | 1936-1999 | (Hirtreiter) | |
| Gabi Novak | 1936- | | |
| Buddy Guy | 1936- | | |
| Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman | 1936-2007 | | |
| Buddy Holly | 1936-1959 | (Holley) | |
| Shirley Bassey | 1937- | | |
| Philip Glass | 1937- | | |
| Don Everly | 1937-2021 | | |
| Roberta Flack | 1937-2025 | | |
| Merle Haggard | 1937-2016 | | |
| Dick Dale | 1937-2019 | (Monsour) | |
| Trini Lopez | 1937-2020 | | |
| Hibari Misora | 1937-1989 | | |
| Freddy Fender | 1937-2006 | (Garza, Huerta) | |
| Waylon Jennings | 1937-2002 | | |
| Ayla Algan | 1937- | | |
| "Little" Willie John | 1937-1968 | | |
| Connie Francis | 1937- | (Franconero) | |
| Adriano Celentano | 1938- | | |
| Shivkumar Sharma | 1938-2022 | | |
| Billie Jo Spears | 1938-2011 | (Moore) | |
| Vladimir Vysotsky | 1938-1980 | | |
| Etta James | 1938-2012 | (Hawkins) | |
| Hoyt Axton | 1938-1999 | | |
| Duane Eddy | 1938- | | |
| Lucille Starr | 1938-2020 | (Savoie) | |
| Grethe Ingmann | 1938-1990 | (Clemmensen) | |
| Hariprasad Chaurasia | 1938- | | |
| Bill Withers | 1938-2020 | | |
| Isabelle Aubret | 1938- | (Coquerelle) | |
| Arsen Dedić | 1938-2015 | | |
| Connie Stevens | 1938- | (Ingoglia) | |
| Kenny Rogers | 1938-2020 | | |
| Jet Black | 1938-2022 | (Duffy) | |
| Ben E. King | 1938-2015 | | |
| Tereza Kesovija | 1938- | | |
| Fela Kuti | 1938-1997 | | |
| Nico | 1938-1988 | (Päffgen) | |
| Joe Dassin | 1938-1980 | | |
| Amanda Lear | 1939- | | |
| Phil Everly | 1939-2014 | | |
| Ray Manzarek | 1939-2013 | | |
| Czesław Niemen | 1939-2004 | | |
| Trịnh Công Sơn | 1939-2001 | | |
| Neil Sedaka | 1939- | | |
| Jorge Ben | 1939- | (Menezes, Jor) | |
| Marvin Gaye | 1939-1984 | | |
| Crispian St. Peters | 1939-2010 | (Smith) | |
| Dusty Springfield | 1939-1999 | (O'Brien) | |
| Salomé | 1939- | (Marco, Poquet) | |
| R. D. Burman | 1939-1994 | | |
| Karel Gott | 1939-2019 | | |
| Joe Dolan | 1939-2007 | | |
| Ali Farka Touré | 1939-2006 | | |
| Betty Everett | 1939-2001 | | |
| Tina Turner | 1939-2023 | (Bullock) | |
| Michael Moorcock | 1939- | | |
| Phil Spector | 1939-2021 | | |
| Van McCoy | 1940-1979 | | |
| Gene Pitney | 1940-2006 | | |
| Vicente Fernández | 1940-2021 | (Gómez) | |
| William "Smokey" Robinson Jr. | 1940- | | |
| Olivera Katarina | 1940- | (Petrović) | |
| Al Jarreau | 1940-2017 | | |
| Solomon Burke | 1940-2010 | | |
| Mina | 1940- | (Mazzini) | |
| Astrud Gilberto | 1940-2023 | | |
| Herbie Hancock | 1940- | | |
| Michael Parks | 1940-2017 | | |
| Giorgio Moroder | 1940- | | |
| Ricky Nelson | 1940-1985 | | |
| Tom Jones | 1940- | (Woodward) | |
| Nancy Sinatra | 1940- | | |
| Ringo Starr | 1940- | (Starkey) | |
| Will Tura | 1940- | (Blanckaert) | |
| Johnny Nash | 1940-2020 | | |
| Wilton Felder | 1940-2015 | | |
| Mohammad-Reza Shajarian | 1940-2020 | | |
| John Lennon | 1940-1980 | | |
| Cliff Richard | 1940- | (Webb) | |
| Frida Boccara | 1940-1996 | | |
| Percy Sledge | 1940-2015 | | |
| Bruce Channel | 1940- | (McMeans) | |
| Phil Ochs | 1940-1976 | | |
| Frank Zappa | 1940-1993 | | |
| Joan Baez | 1941- | | |
| Ewa Demarczyk | 1941-2020 | | |
| Plácido Domingo | 1941- | | |
| Neil Diamond | 1941- | | |
| Sérgio Mendes | 1941- | | |
| Buffy Sainte-Marie | 1941- | | |
| Wilson Pickett | 1941-2006 | | |
| Jeremy Clyde | 1941- | | |
| Arthur Davies | 1941-2018 | | |
| Roberto Carlos | 1941- | (Braga) | |
| Jacqueline Boyer | 1941- | (Ducos) | |
| Ann-Margret | 1941- | (Olsson) | |
| Ritchie Valens | 1941-1959 | (Valenzuela) | |
| Bob Dylan | 1941- | (Zimmerman) | |
| Charlie Watts | 1941-2021 | | |
| Martha Argerich | 1941- | | |
| Jon Lord | 1941-2012 | | |
| Armando "Chick" Corea | 1941-2021 | | |
| Jim Rodford | 1941-2018 | | |
| Mišo Kovač | 1941- | | |
| Vikki Carr | 1941- | (de Casillas, Martinez, Cardona) | |
| George Clinton | 1941- | | |
| Manny Charlton | 1941-2022 | | |
| Paul Anka | 1941- | | |
| David Crosby | 1941-2023 | | |
| Cesária Évora | 1941-2011 | | |
| Otis Redding | 1941-1967 | | |
| Cass Elliot | 1941-1974 | (Cohen) | |
| Chubby Checker | 1941- | (Evans) | |
| Paul Simon | 1941- | | |
| Art Garfunkel | 1941- | | |
| Liesbeth List | 1941-2020 | (Driessen) | |
| Ray Thomas | 1941-2018 | | |
| Edwin Starr | 1942-2003 | (Hatcher) | |
| Claudine Longet | 1942- | | |
| Graham Nash | 1942- | | |
| Carole King | 1942- | | |
| Brian Jones | 1942-1969 | | |
| Lou Reed | 1942-2013 | | |
| John Cale | 1942- | | |
| "Scatman" John | 1942-1999 | (Larkin) | |
| Aretha Franklin | 1942-2018 | | |
| Hayedeh | 1942-1990 | (Dadehbala) | |
| Barbra Streisand | 1942- | | |
| Tammy Wynette | 1942-1998 | (Pugh) | |
| Lorrie Collins | 1942-2018 | | |
| Carl Douglas | 1942- | | |
| Ian Dury | 1942-2000 | | |
| Billy Swan | 1942- | | |
| K. T. Oslin | 1942-2020 | | |
| Curtis Mayfield | 1942-1999 | | |
| Anneke Grönloh | 1942-2018 | | |
| Paul McCartney | 1942- | | |
| Brian Wilson | 1942- | | |
| Eumir Deodato | 1942- | | |
| Volker David Kirchner | 1942-2020 | | |
| Gilberto Gil | 1942- | | |
| Ronnie James Dio | 1942-2010 | | |
| Roger McGuinn | 1942- | | |
| Ruža Pospiš-Baldani | 1942- | | |
| Jerry Garcia | 1942-1995 | | |
| B. J. Thomas | 1942-2021 | | |
| T. H. Vinayakram | 1942- | | |
| Clara Nunes | 1942-1983 | | |
| Nurit Hirsh | 1942- | | |
| Isaac Hayes | 1942-2008 | | |
| Bisera Veletanlić | 1942- | | |
| Freda Payne | 1942- | | |
| Jenny Arean | 1942- | (Klarenbeek) | |
| Zdenko Runjić | 1942-2004 | | |
| Daniel Barenboim | 1942- | | |
| Jimi Hendrix | 1942-1970 | | |
| Reinhard Mey | 1942- | (May, Yondraschek) | |
| Rob de Nijs | 1942-2025 | | |
| Janis Joplin | 1943-1970 | | |
| Roy Black | 1943-1991 | (Höllerich) | |
| Dennis Edwards | 1943-2018 | | |
| George Harrison | 1943-2001 | | |
| Jackson C. Frank | 1943-1999 | | |
| Sly Stone | 1943- | (Stewart) | |
| George Benson | 1943- | | |
| Vangelis | 1943-2022 | (Papathanassiou) | |
| Tony Christie | 1943- | (Fitzgerald) | |
| Jacques Dutronc | 1943- | | |
| Albano Carrisi | 1943- | | |
| Cilla Black | 1943-2015 | (White) | |
| Johnny Hallyday | 1943-2017 | (Smet) | |
| Barry Manilow | 1943- | (Pincus) | |
| Raffaella Carrà | 1943-2021 | (Pelloni) | |
| Garland Jeffreys | 1943- | | |
| Robbie Robertson | 1943-2023 | | |
| Toto Cutugno | 1943-2023 | | |
| Christine McVie | 1943-2022 | (Perfect) | |
| Mick Jagger | 1943- | | |
| Richard Wright | 1943-2008 | | |
| Esma Redžepova | 1943-2016 | | |
| Edwin Hawkins | 1943-2018 | | |
| David Soul | 1943-2024 | (Solberg) | |
| Đorđe Novković | 1943-2007 | | |
| Roger Waters | 1943- | | |
| Gloria Gaynor | 1943- | | |
| Lena Valaitis | 1943- | (Valaitytė) | |
| Toni Basil | 1943- | (Basilotta) | |
| Julio Iglesias | 1943- | | |
| Dunja Vejzović | 1943- | (Crnković) | |
| Salvatore Adamo | 1943- | | |
| Joni Mitchell | 1943- | | |
| Randy Newman | 1943- | | |
| Jim Morrison | 1943-1971 | | |
| Keith Richards | 1943- | | |
| Mulatu Astatke | 1943- | | |
| John Denver | 1943-1997 | (Deutschendorf) | |
| Sylvie Vartan | 1944- | | |
| Jimmy Page | 1944- | | |
| Françoise Hardy | 1944- | | |
| Klaus Nomi | 1944-1983 | (Sperber) | |
| Roger Daltrey | 1944- | | |
| Bobby Womack | 1944-2014 | | |
| Kiri Te Kanawa | 1944- | | |
| Ric Ocasek | 1944-2019 | (Otcasek) | |
| Michael Nyman | 1944- | | |
| Diana Ross | 1944- | | |
| Terry Jacks | 1944- | | |
| Tony Orlando | 1944- | (Cassavitis) | |
| Karel Kryl | 1944-1994 | | |
| Gary Glitter | 1944- | (Gadd) | |
| Albert Hammond | 1944- | | |
| Joe Cocker | 1944-2014 | | |
| Boudewijn de Groot | 1944- | | |
| Patti LaBelle | 1944- | (Holt) | |
| Gladys Knight | 1944- | | |
| Marvin Hamlisch | 1944-2012 | | |
| Michelle Phillips | 1944- | (Gilliam) | |
| Boz Scaggs | 1944- | | |
| Jeff Beck | 1944-2023 | | |
| Will Jennings | 1944- | | |
| Jimmy Cliff | 1944- | (Chambers) | |
| Nino Bravo | 1944-1973 | (Ferri, Llopis) | |
| Barry White | 1944-2003 | | |
| Peter Cetera | 1944- | | |
| Nona Hendryx | 1944- | | |
| George McCrae | 1944- | | |
| Tim Rice | 1944- | | |
| Booker T. Jones | 1944- | | |
| Agni Baltsa | 1944- | | |
| George Baker | 1944- | (Bouwens) | |
| Brenda Lee | 1944- | (Tarpley) | |
| Ibrica Jusić | 1944- | | |
| Stephen Stills | 1945- | | |
| Rod Stewart | 1945- | | |
| Willeke Alberti | 1945- | | |
| Bob Marley | 1945-1981 | | |
| Gérard Lenormand | 1945- | | |
| Elkie Brooks | 1945- | (Bookbinder) | |
| Herman van Veen | 1945- | | |
| Elis Regina | 1945-1982 | (Carvalho, Costa) | |
| Chuck E. Weiss | 1945-2021 | | |
| Eric Clapton | 1945- | | |
| Lowell George | 1945-1979 | | |
| Ritchie Blackmore | 1945- | | |
| Björn Ulvaeus | 1945- | | |
| Bob Seger | 1945- | | |
| Pete Townshend | 1945- | | |
| John Fogerty | 1945- | | |
| Anne Murray | 1945- | | |
| Carly Simon | 1945- | | |
| Debbie Harry | 1945- | (Tremble) | |
| Thomas Mapfumo | 1945- | | |
| Ian Gillan | 1945- | | |
| Basil Poledouris | 1945-2006 | | |
| Ronee Blakley | 1945- | | |
| Bob Welch | 1945-2012 | | |
| Van Morrison | 1945- | | |
| Itzhak Perlman | 1945- | | |
| José Feliciano | 1945- | (García) | |
| Liam O'Flynn | 1945-2018 | | |
| Gal Costa | 1945-2022 | | |
| Don McLean | 1945- | | |
| Leslie West | 1945-2020 | (Weinstein) | |
| Wayne Fontana | 1945-2020 | (Ellis) | |
| J. D. Souther | 1945- | | |
| Neil Young | 1945- | | |
| Anni-Frid Lyngstad | 1945- | | |
| Bette Midler | 1945- | | |
| Maryla Rodowicz | 1945- | | |
| Marek Grechuta | 1945-2006 | | |
| Željko Bebek | 1945- | | |
| Lemmy Kilmister | 1945-2015 | | |
| Atilla Engin | 1946-2019 | | |
| John Paul Jones | 1946- | | |
| Syd Barrett | 1946-2006 | | |
| Naomi Judd | 1946-2022 | | |
| Howard Carpendale | 1946- | | |
| Dolly Parton | 1946- | | |
| Ajda Pekkan | 1946- | | |
| Syreeta | 1946-2004 | (Wright) | |
| Murray Head | 1946- | | |
| David Gilmour | 1946- | | |
| Klaus Dinger | 1946-2008 | | |
| Al Green | 1946- | | |
| Thelma Houston | 1946- | (Jackson) | |
| Drafi Deutscher | 1946-2006 | | |
| Donovan | 1946- | (Leitch) | |
| Francis Goya | 1946- | (Weyer) | |
| Cher | 1946- | (Sarkisian) | |
| S. P. Balasubrahmanyam | 1946-2020 | | |
| Demis Roussos | 1946-2015 | (Ventouris) | |
| Bon Scott | 1946-1980 | | |
| Linda Ronstadt | 1946- | | |
| Mireille Mathieu | 1946- | | |
| Liana Isakadze | 1946- | | |
| Ralf Hütter | 1946- | | |
| Keith Moon | 1946-1978 | | |
| Barry Gibb | 1946- | | |
| Billy Preston | 1946-2006 | | |
| Freddie Mercury | 1946-1991 | (Bulsara) | |
| Loudon Wainwright III | 1946- | | |
| Krzysztof Krawczyk | 1946-2021 | | |
| Camilo Sesto | 1946-2019 | | |
| King Sunny Adé | 1946- | (Adegeye) | |
| Dan McCafferty | 1946-2022 | | |
| Richard Carpenter | 1946- | | |
| Howard Shore | 1946- | | |
| Herman Brood | 1946-2001 | | |
| José Carreras | 1946- | (Coll) | |
| Chava Alberstein | 1946- | (Alberstei) | |
| Jane Birkin | 1946-2023 | | |
| Benny Andersson | 1946- | | |
| Marianne Faithfull | 1946-2025 | | |
| Patti Smith | 1946- | | |
| David Bowie | 1947-2016 | | |
| Melanie | 1947-2024 | (Safka, Schekeryk) | |
| Dennis DeYoung | 1947- | | |
| Rupert Holmes | 1947- | (Goldstein) | |
| Doug Yule | 1947- | | |
| Sandie Shaw | 1947- | (Goodrich) | |
| Jennifer Warnes | 1947- | | |
| Kiki Dee | 1947- | (Matthews) | |
| Dónal Lunny | 1947- | | |
| Elton John | 1947- | (Dwight) | |
| Emmylou Harris | 1947- | | |
| Florian Schneider | 1947-2020 | (Esleben) | |
| Michèle Torr | 1947- | | |
| Gerry Rafferty | 1947-2011 | | |
| Iggy Pop | 1947- | (Osterberg) | |
| Pete Ham | 1947-1975 | | |
| Tom Evans | 1947-1983 | | |
| Laurie Anderson | 1947- | | |
| Mick Fleetwood | 1947- | | |
| Betty Buckley | 1947- | | |
| Haruomi Hosono | 1947- | | |
| Jerney Kaagman | 1947- | | |
| Arlo Guthrie | 1947- | | |
| Wolfgang Flür | 1947- | | |
| Brian May | 1947- | | |
| Carlos Santana | 1947- | | |
| Don Henley | 1947- | | |
| L. Subramaniam | 1947- | | |
| Massiel | 1947- | (Santamaría, Espinosa) | |
| Sofia Rotaru | 1947- | | |
| Rupert Hine | 1947-2020 | | |
| Michael "Meat Loaf" Aday | 1947-2022 | | |
| Barbara Dickson | 1947- | | |
| Mariska Veres | 1947-2006 | (Ender) | |
| Julien Clerc | 1947- | (Leclerc) | |
| Brian Johnson | 1947- | | |
| Millie Small | 1947-2020 | | |
| France Gall | 1947-2018 | | |
| Hümeyra Akbay | 1947- | | |
| Glenn Tipton | 1947- | | |
| Minnie Riperton | 1947-1979 | | |
| Oliver Dragojević | 1947-2018 | | |
| Gregg Allman | 1947-2017 | | |
| Gigliola Cinquetti | 1947- | | |
| Paco de Lucía | 1947-2014 | (Sánchez, Gómez) | |
| Cozy Powell | 1947-1998 | (Flooks) | |
| Jeff Lynne | 1947- | | |
| Burton Cummings | 1947- | | |
| Tony Iommi | 1948- | | |
| Kenny Loggins | 1948- | | |
| John Carpenter | 1948- | | |
| Anita Pointer | 1948-2022 | | |
| Alice Cooper | 1948- | (Furnier) | |
| José José | 1948-2019 | (Sosa, Ortiz) | |
| Getty Kaspers | 1948- | | |
| Elaine Paige | 1948- | (Bickerstaff) | |
| James Taylor | 1948- | | |
| Andrew Lloyd Webber | 1948- | | |
| Steven Tyler | 1948- | | |
| Klaus Röder | 1948- | | |
| Patty Pravo | 1948- | (Strambelli) | |
| Radojka Šverko | 1948- | | |
| Jan Hammer | 1948- | | |
| Wayne Kramer | 1948-2024 | (Kambes) | |
| Steve Winwood | 1948- | | |
| Brian Eno | 1948- | | |
| Grace Jones | 1948- | | |
| Leo Sayer | 1948- | | |
| Klaus Meine | 1948- | | |
| Stevie Nicks | 1948- | | |
| John Bonham | 1948-1980 | | |
| Lynsey de Paul | 1948-2014 | (Rubin) | |
| Don Airey | 1948- | | |
| Raffi | 1948- | (Cavoukian) | |
| Cat Stevens | 1948- | (Georgiou, Islam) | |
| Barry Hay | 1948- | | |
| Robert Plant | 1948- | | |
| Jean-Michel Jarre | 1948- | | |
| Danny Seraphine | 1948- | | |
| Sam Hui | 1948- | | |
| Kemal Monteno | 1948-2015 | | |
| Tommy Peoples | 1948-2018 | | |
| Olivia Newton-John | 1948-2022 | | |
| Jackson Browne | 1948- | | |
| Séverine | 1948- | (Grizeau) | |
| Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan | 1948-1997 | | |
| Marcia Barrett | 1948- | | |
| Tom Jackson | 1948- | | |
| Telma Hopkins | 1948- | | |
| Lulu | 1948- | (Kennedy, Lawrie, Cairns) | |
| Ozzy Osbourne | 1948- | | |
| Marius Müller-Westernhagen | 1948- | | |
| Ted Nugent | 1948- | | |
| Alan Parsons | 1948- | | |
| Donna Summer | 1948-2012 | | |
| Robert Palmer | 1949-2003 | | |
| Joaquín Sabina | 1949- | (Martínez) | |
| Valery Leontiev | 1949- | | |
| Eddie Money | 1949-2019 | (Mahoney) | |
| Vicki Lawrence | 1949- | (Axelrad, Schultz) | |
| Dave Greenfield | 1949-2020 | | |
| Lene Lovich | 1949- | (Premilovich) | |
| Alla Pugacheva | 1949- | | |
| Patti LuPone | 1949- | | |
| John Miles | 1949-2021 | (Errington) | |
| Billy Joel | 1949- | | |
| Joseph "Dusty" Hill | 1949-2021 | | |
| Urbanus | 1949- | (Servranckx) | |
| Frank Beard | 1949- | | |
| Ebi | 1949- | (Hamedi) | |
| Lionel Richie | 1949- | | |
| Joseph "Geezer" Butler | 1949- | | |
| Alan Menken | 1949- | | |
| Roger Taylor | 1949- | | |
| Eric Carmen | 1949-2024 | | |
| Mark Knopfler | 1949- | | |
| Salif Keita | 1949- | | |
| Gene Simmons | 1949- | (Witz) | |
| Hugh Cornwell | 1949- | | |
| Dado Topić | 1949- | | |
| Bruce Springsteen | 1949- | | |
| Giorgos Dalaras | 1949- | | |
| André Rieu | 1949- | | |
| Bobby Farrell | 1949-2010 | | |
| Idir | 1949-2020 | (Cheriet) | |
| Bonnie Raitt | 1949- | | |
| Bonnie St. Claire | 1949- | (Swart) | |
| G. G. Anderson | 1949- | (Grabowski) | |
| Tom Waits | 1949- | | |
| Randy Owen | 1949- | | |
| Billy Gibbons | 1949- | | |
| Maurice Gibb | 1949-2003 | | |
| Robin Gibb | 1949-2012 | | |
| Miri Aloni | 1949- | | |
| Juan Gabriel | 1950-2016 | (Aguilera, Valadez) | |
| Carlo Siliotto | 1950- | | |
| Roma Ryan | 1950- | (Shane) | |
| Natalie Cole | 1950-2015 | | |
| Peter Gabriel | 1950- | | |
| Josipa Lisac | 1950- | | |
| Lenny Kuhr | 1950- | | |
| Karen Carpenter | 1950-1983 | | |
| Bobby McFerrin | 1950- | | |
| Jørgen Olsen | 1950- | | |
| Parisa | 1950- | (Vā'ezi) | |
| Goran Bregović | 1950- | | |
| Alan Silvestri | 1950- | | |
| Claudio Lolli | 1950-2018 | | |
| Agnetha Fältskog | 1950- | | |
| David Cassidy | 1950-2017 | | |
| Peter Frampton | 1950- | | |
| Vadim Brodski | 1950- | (Brodsky) | |
| Googoosh | 1950- | (Atashin) | |
| Stevie Wonder | 1950- | (Morris) | |
| Bernie Taupin | 1950- | | |
| Suzi Quatro | 1950- | | |
| Deniece Williams | 1950- | (Chandler) | |
| Joey Kramer | 1950- | | |
| John Paul Young | 1950- | | |
| Bonnie Pointer | 1950-2020 | | |
| Frank Stallone | 1950- | | |
| Neda Ukraden | 1950- | | |
| Vicky Leandros | c. 1950- | (Papathanasiou) | |
| Eliza Gilkyson | 1950- | | |
| Neil Murray | 1950- | | |
| Michael Rother | 1950- | | |
| Joe Perry | 1950- | (Pereira) | |
| Eddie Clarke | 1950-2018 | | |
| Tom Petty | 1950-2017 | | |
| Camarón de la Isla | 1950-1992 | (Monje, Cruz) | |
| Joe Hisaishi | 1950- | (Fujisawa) | |
| Charlie McGettigan | 1950- | | |
| Dan Hartman | 1950-1994 | | |
| Haris Alexiou | 1950- | | |
| Ellen Foley | 1951- | | |
| Phil Collins | 1951- | | |
| Dave Benton | 1951- | (Benita) | |
| Dariush | 1951- | (Eghbali) | |
| Zakir Hussain | 1951- | | |
| Izhar Cohen | 1951- | | |
| Janis Ian | 1951- | (Fink) | |
| Peabo Bryson | 1951- | | |
| Luther Vandross | 1951-2005 | | |
| Bernie Marsden | 1951-2023 | | |
| Joy Harjo | 1951- | (Foster) | |