List of film score composers

The following is a list of notable people who predominantly (or most famously) compose soundtrack music for films (i.e. film scores), video games, and television and radio.

A

*Takahito Abe
*Yasuhiro Abe
*Rod Abernethy
*André Abujamra
*Barry Adamson
*Richard Addinsell
*John Addison
*Larry Adler
*Air
*Masami Akita (Merzbow)
*Yasushi Akutagawa
*Mazhar Alanson
*Damon Albarn
*Alessandro Alessandroni
*Jeff Alexander
*Alph Lyla
*John Altman
*William Alwyn
*Masamichi Amano
*Shinobu Amayake
*Daniele Amfitheatrof
*David Amram
*Murray C. Anderson
*Benny Andersson
*Hirokazu Ando
*Michael Andrews
*Jurriaan Andriessen
*George Antheil
*Paul Antonelli
*Yoshino Aoki
*Louis Applebaum
*Harold Arlen
*Craig Armstrong
*Leo Arnaud
*David Arnold
*Sir Malcolm Arnold
*Len Arran
*Claude Arrieu
*Eduard Artemyev
*Art Zoyd
*Jeff Arwady
*Noriyuki Asakura
*Assassin
*Edwin Astley
*Richard Attree
*Georges Auric
*Eric Avery

B

*Luis Bacalov
*Burt Bacharach
*Pierre Bachelet
*Chris P. Bacon
*Michael Bacon
*Angelo Badalamenti
*Klaus Badelt
*Clint Bajakian
*Constantin Bakaleinikoff
*Mischa Bakaleinikoff
*Buddy Baker
*Alexander Bălănescu
*Glen Ballard
*Richard Band
*Thomas Bangalter
*Don Banks
*Claus Bantzer
*Gato Barbieri
*Mister Bark
*Andrew Barnabas
*Erran Baron Cohen
*Bebe Barron
*Louis Barron
*John Barry
*Steve Bartek
*Dee Barton
*Stephen Barton
*Fabio Barzagli
*Tyler Bates
*Hubert Bath
*Mark Batson
*Mike Batt
*Jules Bass
*George Bassman
*Arnold Bax
*Les Baxter
*Jeff Beal
*John Beal
*Robin Beanland
*Bobby Beausoleil
*Giuseppe Becce
*Christophe Beck
*Andrew Belling
*Marco Beltrami
*Arthur Benjamin
*Richard Rodney Bennett
*Irving Berlin
*James Bernard
*Charles Bernstein
*Elmer Bernstein
*Leonard Bernstein
*Amin Bhatia
*Bruno Bizarro
*Adam Berry
*Dennis Berry
*Peter Best
*Christian Biegai
*Björk
*Stanley Black
*Howard Blake
*Terence Blanchard
*Jamie Blanks
*Arthur Bliss
*Wes Boatman
*Michael Boddicker
*Ed Bogas
*Carsten Bohn
*Claude Bolling
*Bernardo Bonezzi
*Luiz Bonfá
*Fred Bongusto
*Michiel van den Bos
*Simon Boswell
*Martin Böttcher
*Frédéric Botton
*Pieter Bourke
*David Bowie
*Scott Bradley
*Steven Bramson
*Alexander Brandon
*Angelo Branduardi
*Stephen Bray
*Michael Breckenridge
*Buddy Bregman
*Goran Bregović
*Joseph Carl Breil
*Willem Breuker
*Jon Brion
*Jeff Britting
*Timothy Brock
*Michael Brook
*Mel Brooks
*Dirk Brossé
*Bruce Broughton
*William Broughton
*Bill Brown
*James Brown
*George Bruns
*Jimmy Bryant
*David Buckley
*Paul Buckmaster
*Harold Budd
*Roy Budd
*Peter Buffett
*Bun Bun
*Geoffrey Burgon
*Rahul Dev Burman
*Justin Burnett
*T-Bone Burnett
*Ralph Burns
*Carter Burwell
*David Buttolph
*Joseph Byrd
*David Byrne

C

*John Cacavas
*John Cage
*Peter Calandra
*John Cale
*Sean Callery
*Pino Calvi
*Pedro Camacho
*Paul Cantelon
*Sam Cardon
*Wendy Carlos
*John Carpenter
*Pete Carpenter
*Hans Carste
*Kristopher Carter
*Doreen Carwithen
*Tristram Cary
*Carles Cases
*Teddy Castellucci
*Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
*Brian Castillo
*Nick Cave
*Charlie Chaplin
*Benoît Charest
*Stuart Chatwood
*Jay Chattaway
*Yury G. Chernavsky
*Don Cherry
*Jamie Christopherson
*Frank Churchill
*Suzanne Ciani
*Alessandro Cicognini
*The Cinematic Orchestra
*Stelvio Cipriani
*Dolores Claman
*Clannad
*Malcolm Clarke
*Stanley Clarke
*Alf Clausen
*Richard Clements
*Brian Clifton
*George S. Clinton
*Charlie Clouser
*Elia Cmiral
*Eric Coates
*Coil
*Ozan Çolakoğlu
*Ray Colcord
*Lisa Coleman
*Cyril Collard
*Anthony Vincent Collins
*Phil Collins
*Michel Colombier
*Peter Connelly
*Con Conrad
*Marius Constant
*Bill Conti
*Ry Cooder
*Stewart Copeland
*Aaron Copland
*Cecil Copping
*John Corigliano
*Bruno Coulais
*Alexander Courage
*Vladimir Cosma
*Alexander Courage
*Crush 40
*Patricia Cullen
*Douglas J. Cuomo
*Mike Curb

D

*Ben Daglish
*Burkhard Dallwitz
*Đặng Hữu Phúc
*John Dankworth
*Jeff Danna
*Mychael Danna
*Mason Daring
*David Darling
*Peter Dasent
*Vladimir Dashkevich
*Shaun Davey
*Iva Davies
*Peter Maxwell Davies
*Carl Davis
*Don Davis
*Jonathan Davis
*Miles Davis
*Guido De Angelis
*Maurizio De Angelis
*Francesco De Masi
*Frank De Vol
*Barry De Vorzon
*Dead Can Dance
*Richard DeBenedictis
*John Debney
*Charles Deenen
*Jack Delano
*Georges Delerue
*Fabian Del Priore
*Éric Demarsan
*Olivier Derivière
*Russ DeSalvo
*Alexandre Desplat
*Paul Dessau
*Adolph Deutsch
*Stephen Deutsch
*Frédéric Devreese
*Sussan Deyhim
*James Di Pasquale
*Michelle DiBucci
*Vince DiCola
*Ramin Djawadi
*Simon Dobson
*Robert E. Dolan
*Thomas Dolby
*Klaus Doldinger
*Pino Donaggio
*Walter Donaldson
*James Dooley
*Pierre van Dormael
*Joel Douek
*Patrick Doyle
*Carmen Dragon
*Christopher Drake
*Robert Drasnin
*Dennis Dreith
*George Dreyfus
*Howard Drossin
*John Du Prez
*Anne Dudley
*Antoine Duhamel
*Tan Dun
*Isaak Dunayevsky
*Maksim Dunayevsky
*Robert Duncan
*Trevor Duncan
*George Duning
*The Dust Brothers
*Frank Duval
*Jeff van Dyck
*Igor Dymkov
*Dado Dzihan

E

*E.S. Posthumus
*Brian Easdale
*Clint Eastwood
*Kyle Eastwood
*Nicolas Economou
*Randy Edelman
*Greg Edmonson
*Carl Edouarde
*Ross Edwards
*Takahito Eguchi
*Stefan Eichinger
*Cliff Eidelman
*Ludovico Einaudi
*Richard Einhorn
*Einstürzende Neubauten
*Der Eisenrost
*Hanns Eisler
*Element of Crime
*Danny Elfman
*Boris Elkis
*Dean Elliott
*Jack Elliott
*Warren Ellis
*Albert Elms
*Elwood
*Keith Emerson
*Jon English
*Brian Eno
*Roger Eno
*Hidehiko Enomoto
*Harry Escott
*Ilan Eshkeri
*Juan García Esquivel
*Ray Evans

F

*Adam F
*Brian Fahey
*Sammy Fain
*Harold Faltermeyer
*David Fanshawe
*Jim Farmer
*Paul Farrer
*George Fenton
*Jay Ferguson
*Paul Ferris
*Brad Fiedel
*Jerry Fielding
*Mike Figgis
*Eveline Fischer
*Frank Fitzpatrick
*Stephen Flaherty
*Tom Flannery
*Flo & Eddie
*Adrian Foley, 8th Baron Foley
*Tim Follin
*Troels Brun Folmann
*Dan Forden
*Keith Forsey
*Charles Fox
*Christopher Franke
*Benjamin Frankel
*Gerald Fried
*Hugo Friedhofer
*Fred Frith
*John Frizzell
*Fabio Frizzi
*Edgar Froese
*Dominic Frontiere
*Sota Fujimori
*Matt Furniss
*Motoaki Furukawa
*Giovanni Fusco

G

*Peter Gabriel
*Serge Gainsbourg
*Vincent Gallo
*Martin Galway
*Douglas Gamley
*Gara Garayev
*Russell Garcia
*Ruy Garcia
*Dan Gardopée
*Snuff Garrett
*Georges Garvarentz
*Giorgio Gaslini
*Justin Geer
*Ron Geesin
*Grant Geissman
*Lisa Gerrard
*George Gershwin
*Michael Giacchino
*Jeff Gibbs
*Richard Gibbs
*Herschel Burke Gilbert
*Gary Gilbertson
*Alan Gill
*Terry Gilkyson
*Daniel Giorgetti
*Paul Giovanni
*Philip Glass
*Paul Glass
*Evelyn Glennie
*Nick Glennie-Smith
*Goblin
*Vladimír Godár
*Lucio Godoy
*Matthias Gohl
*Ernest Gold
*Jeffrey Gold
*Murray Gold
*Elliot Goldenthal
*Jerry Goldsmith
*Joel Goldsmith
*Osvaldo Golijov
*Ron Goodwin
*Alain Goraguer
*Manami Gotoh
*Louis F. Gottschalk
*Morton Gould
*Patrick Gowers
*Paul Grabowsky
*Ron Grainer
*Allan Gray
*Barry Gray
*Clifford Gray
*Jody Gray
*Gavin Greenaway
*Johnny Green
*Walter Greene
*Jonny Greenwood
*Gustaf Grefberg
*Harry Gregson-Williams
*Rupert Gregson-Williams
*Mark Griskey
*Herbert Grönemeyer
*Dave Grusin
*Fuat Güner
*Christopher Gunning
*Olof Gustafsson

H

*Manos Hadjidakis
*Georg Haentzschel
*Richard Hageman
*Earle Hagen
*Taro Hakase
*Dick Halligan
*Minako Hamano
*Masashi Hamauzu
*Chico Hamilton
*Marvin Hamlisch
*Chuck Hammer
*Jan Hammer
*Oscar Hammerstein II
*Herbie Hancock
*Frederic Hand
*Kentarō Haneda
*James Hannigan
*Glen Hansard
*Raymond Hanson
*Chihiro Harada
*Kurt Harland
*Leigh Harline
*Joe Harnell
*Don Harper
*Don L. Harper
*Johnny Harris
*Sue Harris
*John Harrison
*Jimmy Hart
*Richard Hartley
*Richard Harvey
*Tomoki Hasegawa
*Ichiko Hashimoto
*Paul Haslinger
*Aki Hata
*Tony Hatch
*Marvin Hatley
*Katsuhisa Hattori
*M. Maurice Hawkesworth
*Alan Hawkshaw
*Fumio Hayasaka
*Isaac Hayes
*Jason Hayes
*Tim Haywood
*Richard Hazard
*Jim Hedges
*Neal Hefti
*Reinhold Heil
*Michael Hennagin
*Joe Henry
*Hans Werner Henze
*Paul Hepker
*Victor Herbert
*Michel Herr
*Bernard Herrmann
*Dan Hess
*David Hess
*Nigel Hess
*Eric Hester
*Andrew Hewitt
*David Hewson
*Norihiko Hibino
*Miki Higashino
*Masanori Hikichi
*Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson
*Hajime Hirasawa
*David Hirschfelder
*Joel Hirschhorn
*Joe Hisaishi
*Peter Hajba
*Michael Hoenig
*Friedrich Hollaender
*Dulcie Holland
*David Holmes
*Arthur Honegger
*Hannu Honkonen
*Les Hooper
*Nicholas Hooper
*Nellee Hooper
*Anthony Hopkins
*James Horner
*Richard Horowitz
*Shinji Hosoe
*André Hossein
*Tomoyasu Hotei
*James Newton Howard
*Ken Howard
*Alan Howarth
*Peter Howell
*Rob Hubbard
*L. Ron Hubbard
*Robert Hughes
*Chris Hülsbeck
*Scott Humphrey
*Craig Huxley
*Dick Hyman

I

*Jacques Ibert
*Akira Ifukube
*Alberto Iglesias
*Ilaiyaraaja
*Jerrold Immel
*Andrew Ingkavet
*In the Nursery
*John Ireland
*Markéta Irglová
*Pat Irwin
*Mark Isham
*Chu Ishikawa
*Takeharu Ishimoto
*Emir Işılay
*Kenji Ito
*Teiji Ito
*Taku Iwasaki
*Masaharu Iwata

J

*Steve Jablonsky
*Richard Jacques
*Mick Jagger
*Bob James
*Chas Jankel
*Werner Janssen
*Maurice Jarre
*Michael Jary
*Merrill Jenson
*Zhao Jiping
*Antonio Carlos Jobim (Tom Jobim)
*Alejandro Jodorowsky
*Elton John
*J. J. Johnson
*Laurie Johnson
*Arthur Johnston
*Bobby Johnston
*Brian Jones
*Dan Jones
*John Paul Jones
*Quincy Jones
*Raymond Jones
*Ron Jones
*Trevor Jones
*Richard Joseph
*Michael Josephs
*David Julyan
*Walter Jurmann

K

*Dmitri Kabalevsky
*Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
*Gus Kahn
*Akari Kaida
*Yuki Kajiura
*Toshiyuki Kakuta
*Bert Kalmar
*Michael Kamen
*Yoko Kanno
*Tuomas Kantelinen
*Bronisław Kaper
*Sol Kaplan
*Eleni Karaindrou
*Nele Karajlić
*Anton Karas
*Fred Karlin
*Kent Karlsson
*Sanae Kasahara
*Fred Katz
*Jake Kaufman
*Kenji Kawai
*Norman Kay
*Yakov Kazyansky
*John E. Keane
*Roger Kellaway
*Paul Kelly
*Rolfe Kent
*Walter Kent
*Aram Khachaturian
*Praga Khan
*Alex Khaskin
*Tikhon Khrennikov
*Shunsuke Kikuchi
*Hiroki Kikuta
*Wojciech Kilar
*Mark Kilian
*Masahiko Kimura
*Alastair King
*John King
*Gökhan Kırdar
*Grant Kirkhope
*Martin Kiszko
*Kitarō
*Mark Klem
*Frank Klepacki
*Johnny Klimek
*Mark Knight
*Mark Knopfler
*Chiho Kobayashi
*Miyoko Kobayashi
*Masato Koda
*Krzysztof Komeda
*Koji Kondo
*Robbie Kondor
*Joseph Koo
*Hermann Kopp
*Anders Koppel
*Erich Wolfgang Korngold
*Yuzo Koshiro
*Richard Kosinski
*Robert Kraft
*William Kraft
*Robert J. Kral
*John Henry Kreitler
*David Kristian
*Vivian Kubrick
*Taro Kudou
*Gary Kuo
*Jesper Kyd

L

*Fariborz Lachini
*Francis Lai
*Constant Lambert
*Michael Land
*Marcel Landowski
*Bruce Langhorne
*Laraaji
*Glen A. Larson
*Nathan Larson
*Richard LaSalle
*James Last
*Felice Lattuada
*Ken Lauber
*William Lava
*Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
*James Lavino
*David Nessim Lawrence
*Stephen J. Lawrence
*Maury Laws
*Jean-Marc Lederman
*Raymond Lefèvre
*Michel Legrand
*Barry Leitch
*Christopher Lennertz
*Sean Lennon
*Patrick Leonard
*Raymond Leppard
*Sondre Lerche
*Jérôme Leroy
*Yaacov Bilansky Levanon
*Sylvester Levay
*Laurent Levesque
*James S. Levine
*Michael A. Levine
*Krishna Levy
*Louis Levy
*Shuki Levy
*Frank Lewin
*Paul Lewis
*Blake Leyh
*Michael Licari
*Russell Lieblich
*Paul Linford
*Jay Livingston
*Andrew Lloyd Webber
*Lowell Lo
*Didier Lockwood
*Malcolm Lockyer
*Joseph LoDuca
*John Loeffler
*Frederick Loewe
*Henning Lohner
*Rob Lord
*Saša Lošić
*Alexina Louie
*David Lowe
*Mundell Lowe
*Jaye Luckett
*Ralph Lundsten
*Evan Lurie
*John Lurie
*Danny Lux
*David Lynch
*Liam Lynch
*Bjørn Lynne

M

*Lebo M
*Galt MacDermot
*Madonna
*Naoki Maeda
*Jun Maeda
*Taj Mahal
*Vusi Mahlasela
*Albert Hay Malotte
*Riichiro Manabe
*Josh Mancell
*Mark Mancina
*Henry Mancini
*Johnny Mandel
*Christopher Mann
*Roger Joseph Manning Jr.
*Clint Mansell
*Keith Mansfield
*Marilyn Manson
*Kevin Manthei
*Dario Marianelli
*Chris Marker
*Clair Marlo
*Richard Marriott
*Branford Marsalis
*Wynton Marsalis
*George Martin
*Jerry Martin
*Cliff Martinez
*Massive Attack
*Diego Masson
*Junichi Masuda
*Noriko Matsueda
*Akihiko Matsumoto
*Hayato Matsuo
*Masaya Matsuura
*Dave Matthews
*Billy May
*Brian May
*Simon May
*Curtis Mayfield
*Toshiro Mayuzumi
*Dennis McCarthy
*Paul McCartney
*Craig McConnell
*Peter McConnell
*Bear McCreary
*Nathan McCree
*Keff McCulloch
*Gary McFarland
*Rory McFarlane
*Bill McGuffie
*Tim McIntire
*Joel McNeely
*Shoji Meguro
*DJ Mehdi
*Gil Melle
*Wendy Melvoin
*Alan Menken
*Johnny Mercer
*Wim Mertens
*Mateo Messina
*Dominic Messinger
*Lanny Meyers
*Mario Migliardi
*Marcus Miller
*Robyn Miller
*Toru Minegishi
*Chieli Minucci
*Paul Misraki
*Shinkichi Mitsumune
*Yasunori Mitsuda
*Yū Miyake
*Hajime Mizoguchi
*Naoshi Mizuta
*Vic Mizzy
*Mogwai
*Charlie Mole
*Hugo Montenegro
*Guy Moon
*Anthony Moore
*Dudley Moore
*Mike Moran
*Mark Morgan
*Akihiko Mori
*Nobuhiko Morino
*Angela Morley
*Giorgio Moroder
*Jerome Moross
*Ennio Morricone
*John Morris
*Trevor Morris
*Peter Moss
*Bob Mothersbaugh
*Mark Mothersbaugh
*Rob Mounsey
*Dominic Muldowney
*Mugison
*David Munrow
*Vano Muradeli
*Rika Muranaka
*John Murphy
*Stanley Myers

N

*Hideki Naganuma
*Kenta Nagata
*Masato Nakamura
*Takayuki Nakamura
*Junya Nakano
*Akito Nakatsuka
*Manabu Namiki
*Michiko Naruke
*Mario Nascimbene
*Naushad
*Javier Navarrete
*Robert Anthony Navarro
*Blake Neely
*Neo
*Ira Newborn
*Alfred Newman
*David Newman
*Emil Newman
*Lionel Newman
*Joey Newman
*Randy Newman
*Thomas Newman
*Bruno Nicolai
*Lennie Niehaus
*Tomohito Nishiura
*Harry Nilsson
*Jack Nitzsche
*Yuji Nomi
*Graeme Norgate
*Monty Norman
*Alex North
*Julian Nott
*Michael Nyman
*Molly Nyman

O

*Richard O'Brien
*Martin O'Donnell
*Walter O'Keefe
*Paul Oakenfold
*Erkan Oğur
*Hisayoshi Ogura
*Asuka Ohta
*Soyo Oka
*Mike Oldfield
*Yoko Ono
*Hal Oppenheim
*Shinji Orito
*Riz Ortolani
*Michiru Oshima
*Kō Ōtani
*John Ottman
*Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov

P

*Gene Page
*Jimmy Page
*Alan Parker
*Clifton Parker
*Elizabeth Parker
*Jim Parker
*Dean Parks
*Gordon Parks
*Van Dyke Parks
*Johnny Pate
*Gene de Paul
*Bernard Peiffer
*Krzysztof Penderecki
*Michael Penn
*Heitor Pereira
*Frank Perkins
*Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
*William P. Perry
*Jean-Claude Petit
*Britta Phillips
*John Phillips
*Stu Phillips
*Winifred Phillips
*Ástor Piazzolla
*Piero Piccioni
*Stéphane Picq
*Jason Pierce
*Pink Floyd
*Antonio Pinto
*Douglas Pipes
*Dmitry Pokrass
*Pier Paolo Polcari
*Basil Poledouris
*Jocelyn Pook
*Popol Vuh
*Gavriil Nikolayevich Popov
*Pornosonic
*Michel Portal
*Cole Porter
*Rachel Portman
*Mike Post
*John Powell
*Pray for Rain
*Zbigniew Preisner
*André Previn
*Prince
*Robert Prince
*Sergei Prokofiev
*Craig Pruess

Q

*Queen
*Andy Quin
*Quintessence

R

*R.E.M.
*Jaan Rääts
*Peer Raben
*Trevor Rabin
*James Rado
*Robert O. Ragland
*A. R. Rahman
*Yuvan Shankar Raja
*Brian Ralston
*GS Rajan
*David Raksin
*Simon Ravn
*Ray Reach
*Alto Reed
*Franz Reizenstein
*Mike Renzi
*Graeme Revell
*Gian Piero Reverberi
*Trent Reznor
*Rheostatics
*Fred Rich
*Neil Richardson
*Chris Rickwood
*Nelson Riddle
*Stan Ridgway
*Hugo Riesenfeld
*Stephen Rippy
*Lolita Ritmanis
*Richard Robbins
*Andy Roberts
*Nile Rodgers
*Robert Rodriguez
*Heinz Eric Roemheld
*Roger Roger
*Alain Romans
*Douglas Romayne
*Philippe Rombi
*Jeff Rona
*Ann Ronell
*Max van der Rose
*Leonard Rosenman
*Laurence Rosenthal
*William Ross
*Renzo Rossellini
*Hubert Rostaing
*Nino Rota
*Bruce Rowland
*Miklós Rózsa
*Arthur B. Rubinstein
*Harry Ruby
*Steve Rucker
*Pete Rugolo
*Mark Russell
*Carlo Rustichelli
*Paolo Rustichelli
*The Rza

S

*Haim Saban
*Jamie Saft
*Toshihiko Sahashi
*Camille Saint-Saëns
*Shōgo Sakai
*Taku Sakakibara
*Ryuichi Sakamoto
*Hitoshi Sakimoto
*Motoi Sakuraba
*Hans Salter
*Michael Salvatori
*Leonard Salzedo
*George Sanger
*John Sangster
*Gustavo Santaolalla
*Cláudio Santoro
*Philippe Sarde
*David Sardy
*Ryuji Sasai
*Masaru Satō
*Naoki Sato
*Tenpei Sato
*Paul Sawtell
*Walter Scharf
*Victor Schertzinger
*Peter Schickele
*Lalo Schifrin
*Adam Schlesinger
*Irmin Schmidt
*Johannes Schmoelling
*Helge Schneider
*Alfred Schnittke
*Gaili Schoen
*Norbert Schultze
*Klaus Schulze
*Walter Schumann
*Sigi Schwab
*Stephen Schwartz
*Garry Schyman
*John Scott
*Tom Scott
*Humphrey Searle
*Andrew Sega
*Fat Segal
*Misha Segal
*Mátyás Seiber
*Mark Seibert
*Tsuyoshi Sekito
*Jun Senoue
*Alex Seropian
*Éric Serra
*Arban Severin
*Steven Severin
*Thomas Edward Seymour
*Kyriakos Sfetsas
*Marc Shaiman
*Vladimir Shainsky
*Ravi Shankar
*Ray Shanklin
*Theodore Shapiro
*Shark
*Edward Shearmur
*Bert Shefter
*William Sheller
*Richard M. Sherman
*Robert B. Sherman
*Leroy Shield
*Kevin Shields
*Ichiro Shimakura
*Yoko Shimomura
*Yasunori Shiono
*Atsushi Shirakawa
*David Shire
*Howard Shore
*Ryan Shore
*Dmitri Shostakovich
*Leo Shuken
*Steve Sidwell
*Alan Silvestri
*Claudio Simonetti
*Frank Skinner
*Andys Skordis
*Cezary Skubiszewski
*Mark Slater
*Michael Small
*Bruce Smeaton
*Paul J. Smith
*Mark Snow
*Sofa Surfers
*Martial Solal
*Stephen Sondheim
*Ondřej Soukup
*Jeremy Soule
*Leonid Soybelman
*Stamatis Spanoudakis
*Benjamin Speed
*Sam Spence
*Herbert W. Spencer
*Spiralmouth
*Glenn Stafford
*Carl Stalling
*Ronald Stein
*Fred Steiner
*Max Steiner
*Leith Stevens
*Morton Stevens
*David A. Stewart
*Robert Stolz
*Richard Stone
*Herbert Stothart
*Patricia Lee Stotter
*Matthew Strachan
*Charles Strouse
*Joe Strummer
*Ike Stubblefield
*Cong Su
*Morton Subotnick
*Jeff Sudakin
*Koichi Sugiyama
*Sun City Girls
*Keiichi Suzuki
*Georgy Sviridov
*Karel Svoboda

T

*Germaine Tailleferre
*Masafumi Takada
*Joby Talbot
*Frédéric Talgorn
*Tommy Tallarico
*Tōru Takemitsu
*Junko Tamiya
*Shinji Tamura
*Aya Tanaka
*Hirokazu Tanaka
*Kohei Tanaka
*Tangerine Dream
*Kumi Tanioka
*Brian Tarquin
*John Tavener
*Michael Tavera
*Mick Taylor
*Boris Tchaikovsky
*Team Shanghai Alice
*Jeroen Tel
*Tenacious D
*Jeanine Tesori
*Third Ear Band
*Mikis Theodorakis
*Pete Thomas
*Peter Thomas
*Stuart Michael Thomas
*Ken Thorne
*Throbbing Gristle
*David Tichy
*Yann Tiersen
*Chris Tilton
*Christopher Tin
*Tindersticks
*Dimitri Tiomkin
*George Tipton
*Boris Tishchenko
*Ernst Toch
*Pyotr Todorovsky
*Richard Tognetti
*Magome Togoshi
*Sotaro Tojima
*James Tomalin
*tomandandy
*Isao Tomita
*David Torn
*Kazumi Totaka
*Toto
*Colin Towns
*Brian Transeau (as BT)
*Stephen Trask
*Armando Trovaioli
*Mark Tschanz
*Yuka Tsujiyoko
*Tom Tykwer
*Brian Tyler
*Christopher Tyng
*Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners

U

*Shusaku Uchiyama
*Masami Ueda
*Matt Uelmen
*Nobuo Uematsu
*Tatsuya Uemura
*Kōji Ueno
*Özkan Uğur
*Shigeru Umebayashi
*Piero Umiliani

V

*Steve Vai
*Frank Valentini
*Jonne Valtonen
*Vangelis
*Ralph Vaughan Williams
*Ben Vaughn
*Cris Velasco
*Caetano Veloso
*James L. Venable
*Vertexguy
*Mike Vickers
*Heitor Villa-Lobos
*Carl Vine
*Tolis Voskopoulos
*Neil D. Voss
*Chris Vrenna
*Henny Vrienten

W

*Yayoi Wachi
*Kaoru Wada
*Derek Wadsworth
*Loudon Wainwright III
*Tom Waits
*Hajime Wakai
*W. G. Walden
*Mark Walk
*Shirley Walker
*Simon Walker
*Jack Wall
*William Walton
*Wang Chung
*Thomas Wanker
*Stephen Warbeck
*Edward Ward
*Kyle Ward
*Dean Wareham
*Régis Wargnier
*Mervyn Warren
*Don Was
*Ned Washington
*Toshiyuki Watanabe
*Roger Waters
*Franz Waxman
*Jeff Wayne
*Jimmy Webb
*Roy Webb
*Simon Webb
*Konstantin Wecker
*Craig Wedren
*Mieczysław Weinberg
*Wendy and Lisa
*Walter Werzowa
*Fred Wesley
*Mel Wesson
*Nigel Westlake
*David Whitaker
*Guy Whitmore
*David Whittaker
*George Whitty
*Gert Wilden
*Steve Willaert
*Jim Williams
*John Williams
*Patrick Williams
*Paul Williams
*Malcolm Williamson
*Nancy Wilson
*Herbert Windt
*Jean Wiener
*David Wise
*Debbie Wiseman
*Peter Wolf
*Jonathan Wolff
*Byron Wong
*Christopher Wong
*Raymond Wong Ying-Wah
*Ronnie Wood
*John Wooldridge
*Lyle Workman
*Tim Wright

X

*Stavros Xarchakos

Y

*Michiru Yamane
*Kenji Yamamoto
*Kenji Yamamoto (DBZ game musician)
*Akira Yamaoka
*Shoji Yamashiro
*Kinuyo Yamashita
*Stomu Yamashta
*Ryo Yamazaki
*Gabriel Yared
*Yello
*Gary Yershon
*Yiruma
*Mahito Yokota
*Seiji Yokoyama
*Yo La Tengo
*Christopher Young
*Neil Young
*Victor Young
*Yuukichan's Papa

Z

*Geoff Zanelli
*Frank Zappa
*Marcelo Zarvos
*Aleksandr Zatsepin
*Paul Zaza
*Zazie
*Aaron Zigman
*Winfried Zillig
*Hans Zimmer
*Rob Zombie
*John Zorn
*Zuntata
*Inon Zur