List of famous conductors
These people are famous as choral, orchestral or operatic conductorss:
- Claudio Abbado
- Maurice Abravanel
- Salvatore Accardo (more famous as a violinist)
- Karel Ancerl
- Samuel Adler
- Marin Alsop
- Ernest Ansermet
- Bruno Aprea
- Vladimir Ashkenazy (equally famous as a pianist)
- John Barbirolli
- Daniel Barenboim
- Rudolf Barshai
- Leon Barzin
- Serge Baudo
- Thomas Beecham
- Eduard van Beinum
- Jiri Belohlávek
- Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli (brother of piano soloist Arturo)
- Leonard Bernstein
- Paavo Berglund
- Karl Böhm
- Richard Bonynge
- Willi Boskovsky (also famous as a violinist)
- Pierre Boulez
- Adrian Boult
- Benjamin Britten (more famous as a composer)
- Max Bruch (better known as a composer)
- Frans Bruggen (also famous as a recorder player)
- Adolf Busch
- Fritz Busch
- Guido Cantelli
- Felix Carrasco
- Sergiu Celibidache
- Aaron Copland (more famous as a composer)
- Riccardo Chailly
- William Christie
- André Cluytens
- Robert Craft
- Jose Cura (better known as a singer)
- Andrew Davis
- Colin Davis
- Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
- Victor De Sabata
- Odaline de la Martinez
- Christoph von Dohnanyi
- Placido Domingo (better known as a tenor)
- Antal Doráti
- Charles Dutoit
- Frederick Fennell
- Franco Ferrara
- Louis Fremaux
- Ferenc Fricsay
- Wilhelm Furtwängler
- Lamberto Gardelli
- John Eliot Gardiner
- Gianandrea Gavazzeni
- Valery Gergiev
- Carlo Maria Giulini
- Jane Glover
- Nicolai Golovanov
- Eugene Goossens
- Vittorio Gui
- Emmanuelle Haïm
- Bernard Haitink
- Charles Hallé
- Herbert Hamilton Harty
- Vernon Handley
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt
- Philippe Herreweghe
- Richard Hickox
- Christopher Hogwood (also harpsichordist)
- Jascha Horenstein
- Eliahu Inbal
- Mariss Jansons
- Neeme Järvi
- Graeme Jenkins
- Eugen Jochum
- Robert Kajanus
- Herbert von Karajan
- Joseph Keilberth
- Rudolf Kempe
- Istvan Kertesz
- Carlos Kleiber
- Erich Kleiber
- Otto Klemperer
- Paul Kletzki
- Kyrill Kondrashin
- Franz Konwitschny
- Serge Koussevitzky
- Josef Krips
- Rafael Kubelik
- Sigiswald Kuijken
- Efrem Kurtz
- Erich Leinsdorf
- Gilbert Levine
- James Levine
- Raymond Leppard
- Andrew Litton
- Jesus Lopos Coboz
- Peter Maag
- Lorin Maazel
- Charles Mackerras
- Zdenek Macal
- Gustav Mahler (a famous conductor and composer)
- Neville Marriner
- Jean Martinon
- Eduardo Marturet
- Kurt Masur
- Eduardo Mata
- Lovro von Matacic
- Zubin Mehta
- Willem Mengelberg
- Yehudi Menuhin (more famous as a violinist)
- Dimitri Mitropoulos
- Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
- Evgeny Mravinsky
- Pierre Monteux
- Charles Munch
- Riccardo Muti
- Václav Neumann
- Roger Norrington
- Jens Nygaard
- Sakari Oramo
- Eugene Ormandy
- Seiji Ozawa
- Paul Paray
- Libor Pesek
- Trevor Pinnock
- Mikhail Pletnev (also famous as a pianist)
- Georges Pretre
- André Previn
- John Pritchard
- Simon Rattle
- Karl Richter
- Fritz Reiner
- Artur Rodzinski
- Hans Rosbaud
- Mstislav Rostropovich(also famous as a cellist)
- Witold Rowicki
- Max Rudolf
- Esa-Pekka Salonen
- Kurt Sanderling
- Michele Santorsola
- Jukka-Pekka Saraste
- Malcolm Sargent
- Wolfgang Sawallisch
- Claudio Scimone (founder and leader of Solisti Veneti)
- Hermann Scherchen
- Thomas Schippers
- Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
- Ole Schmidt
- Carl Schuricht
- Gerard Schwarz
- Tullio Serafin
- Robert Shaw
- Maxim Shostakovich
- Constantin Silvestri
- Giuseppe Sinopoli
- Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
- Leonard Slatkin
- Václav Smetacek
- Georg Solti
- William Steinberg
- Leopold Stokowski
- Richard Strauss (more famous as a composer)
- Igor Stravinsky (more famous as a composer)
- Masaaki Suzuki
- Evgeny Svetlanov
- Hans Swarowsky
- Georg Szell
- Václav Talich
- Jeffery Tate
- Yuri Temirkanov
- Michael Tilson Thomas
- Georg Tintner
- Arturo Toscanini
- Edo de Waart
- Günter Wand
- Bruno Walter
- Felix Weingartner
- Walter Weller
- Franz Welser-Möst
- Henry Wood
