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| Abell, John (b. 1653 d. 1716 a. 1679-1700) | composer, violin in the private music for the voic |
| Abrams, Harriet (b. 1758 d. 1822 a. 1784-1785) | soprano, composer |
| Alcock, John (b. 1715 d. 1806) | organ, composer |
| Aldrich, Henry (b. 1648 d. 1710) | divine, scholar |
| Alison, Richard (a. 1592-1606) | composer, professor |
| Allibond, John (b. 1597 d. 1658) | schoolmaster, music lecturer |
| Ariosti, Attilio Malachia (d. 1740 a. 1696-1721) | COMP~, domenicano |
| Arne, Michael (b. 1740 d. 1786) | composer |
| Arne, Thomas Augustine (b. 1710 d. 1778) | composer, violin |
| Arnold, Samuel (b. 1740 d. 1802) | composer, organ |
| Avison, Charles (b. 1710 d. 1770) | composer, conductor |
| Ayrton, Edmund (b. 1734 d. 1808) | organ, composer |
| Banister, John (b. 1625 d. 1679) | composer, violin |
| Barthelemon, Francois Hippolyte (b. 1741 d. 1808) | violin, composer |
| Bartleman, James (b. 1769 d. 1821) | bassist |
| Bates, Joah (b. 1740 d. 1799) | civil servant, organ |
| Bateson, Thomas (b. 1580 d. 1620) | organ, composer |
| Battishill, Jonathan (b. 1738 d. 1801) | organ, composer |
| Beard, John (b. 1717 d. 1791) | tenor, actor |
| Bevin, Elway (b. 1554 d. 1639) | composer, theorist |
| Billington, Elisabeth (b. 1769) | Musikerin, singer |
| Blow, John (b. 1649 d. 1708) | child of the Chapel, composer |
| Boyce, William |
| Britton, Thomas (b. 1644 d. 1714) | music patron, amateur musician |
| Browne, Simon (b. 1680 d. 1732) | Pastor, author |
| Burney, Charles (b. 1726 d. 1814) | composer, storiografo |
| Butler, Charles (b. 1560 d. 1647 a. 1636) | priest, amateur musician |
| Byrd, William (b. 1538 d. 1623) |
| Callcott, John Wall (b. 1766 d. 1821) | composer, theorist |
| Carey, George Saville (b. 1743 d. 1807) | poet, dramatist |
| Carey, Henry (b. 1689 d. 1743) | composer, dramatist |
| Carter, Thomas [Charles Thomas] (b. 1740 d. 1804) | composer |
| Cecil, Richard (b. 1748 d. 1810) | clergyman, musician |
| Child, William (b. 1606 d. 1697) | composer, organ |
| Clarke, Jeremiah (b. 1674 d. 1707) | composer, organ |
| Clementi, Muzio (b. 1752) | composer, compositeur |
| Cooke, Benjamin (b. 1734 d. 1793) | organ, composer |
| Creightan, Robert (b. 1639 d. 1734) | Precentor |
| Croft, William (b. 1677 d. 1727) | musician |
| Danby, John (b. 1757 d. 1798) | musician |
| Davy, John (b. 1763 d. 1824) | composer |
| Dering, Richard (b. 1580 d. 1630) | composer, organista |
| Dibdin, Charles (b. 1745 d. 1814) | composer, poet |
| Dignum, Charles (b. 1765 d. 1827) | singer, composer |
| Dowland, John (b. 1563 d. ?) | composer, lutenist |
| Dunstable, John (b. 1390 d. 1453) | composer, musician |
| Dupuis, Thomas Sanders [Saunders] (b. 1730 d. 1796) | composer, organ |
| Dussek, Jean Louis (b. 1761 d. 1812) |
| Eccles, John (b. 1668 d. 1735) | composer |
| Evelyn, John (b. 1620 d. 1706) | cast, civil servant |
| Fischer, Johann Christian (b. 1733 d. 1800) | oboe |
| Fountaine, Andrew (b. 1676 d. 1753) | Virtuoso |
| Gaimar, Geoffrey (a. 1140) | minstrel, author |
| Galliard, John Ernest (b. 1680 d. 1749) | composer, organ |
| Geminiani, Francis (b. 1687 d. 1762) | musicisti |
| Gibbons, Christopher (b. 1615 d. 1676) | organ, composer |
| Gibbons, Edward (b. 1570 d. 1650) | organ, composer |
| Gibbons, Orlando (b. 1583 d. 1625) | composer, organ |
| Giornovichi, Giovanni Mane (b. -1745 d. 1804 a. 1797) | violin, composer |
| Gow, Niel (b. 1727 d. 1807) | violin, composer |
| Greatorex, Thomas (b. 1758 d. 1831) | conductor, teacher |
| Greene, Maurice (b. 1696 d. 1755) | organ, composer |
| Hague, Charles (b. 1769 d. 1821) | violin, composer |
| Harington, Henry (b. 1727 d. 1816) | physician, author |
| Hayes, Philip (b. 1738 d. 1797) | organ, composer |
| Hayes, William (b. 1706 d. 1777) | professor of music |
| Heather, William (b. 1563 d. 1627) | musician |
| Heidegger, John James (b. 1659 d. 1749) | operatic manager |
| Hill, Rowland (b. 1744 d. 1833) | preacher, hymnist |
| Hook, James (b. 1746 d. 1827) | organ, composer |
| Hope, Thomas (b. 1770 d. 1831) | Virtuoso, author |
| Howard, Samuel (b. 1710 d. 1782) | composer, organ |
| Hunnis, William (d. 1597 died: 1597) | poet, composer |
| Incledon, Charles Benjamin (b. 1763 d. 1826) | tenor |
| Ingelo, Nathaniel (b. 1621 d. 1693) | divine, musician |
| Jackson, William (b. 1730 d. 1803) |
| Jennings, Henry Constantine (b. 1731 d. 1919) | Virtuoso |
| Johnstone, John Henry (b. 1749 d. 1828) | actor, tenor |
| Jordan, Dorothea Bland (b. 1762 d. 1816) | actress, singer |
| Kelly, Michael (b. 1762 d. 1826) | cantante, tenor |
| Kemp, Joseph (b. 1778 d. 1824) | composer, teacher |
| Kent, James (b. 1700 d. 1776) | cathedral musician, composer |
| Kiesewetter, Christopher Gottfried (b. 1777 d. 1827) | violin, composer |
| Klose, Francis Joseph (b. 1784 d. 1830) | composer, writer |
| Kollman, August Friedrich Christoph (b. 1756 d. 1829) | organ, composer |
| Lanier, Nicholas (b. 1588 d. 1666) |
| Lawes, Henry (b. 1596 d. 1662) | composer, gentleman of the Chapel |
| Lawes, William (b. 1582 d. 1645) | composer, musician |
| Leveridge, Richard (b. -1671 d. 1758) | bass, vocals |
| Linley, Elizabeth Ann (b. 1754 d. 1792) | oboe, soprano |
| Linley, Thomas (b. 1733 d. 1795) | composer, harpsichord |
| Locke, Matthew (b. -1622 d. 1677) | composer |
| Mace, Thomas (b. 1619 d. 1709) | deaf musician |
| Marbeck, John (d. 1585) | musician, theologian |
| Miller, Edward (b. 1731 d. 1807) | organ, historian |
| Morley, Thomas (b. 1557) | composer, editor |
| Nalson, Valentine (d. 1722) | organ, divine |
| Nares, James (b. 1715 d. 1783) | composer |
| Parke, John (b. 1745 d. 1829) | oboe |
| Purcell, Daniel (b. 1660 d. 1717) | composer, organ |
| Purcell, Henry (b. 1658 d. 1695) | composer |
| Ravenscroft, Thomas (b. 1582 d. 1635) | editor, vocals |
| Robinson, Anastasia (b. 1692 d. 1755) | soprano, later contralto |
| Robinson, Robert (b. 1735 d. 1790) | minister, hymn writer |
| Rogers, Benjamin (b. 1614 d. 1698) | organ, composer |
| Salomon, Johann Peter (b. 1745 d. 1815) | Musiker, musician |
| Shield, William (b. 1748 d. 1829) | theater composer |
| Simeon of Durham (a. 1130) | Precentor, historical compiler |
| Simpson, Christopher (b. 1605 d. 1669) | guitar, theorist |
| Smith, John Stafford (b. 1750 d. 1836) | musicologist, composer |
| Stanley, John (b. 1712 d. 1786) | composer, organ |
| Stevenson, John (Andrew) (b. 1761 d. 1833) | composer |
| Storace, Nancy (b. 1765 d. 1817) | soprano, actress |
| Storace, Stephen John Seymour (b. 1763 d. 1796) |
| Tallis, Thomas (b. 1505 d. 1585) | composer, gentleman of the Chapel |
| Taverner, John (a. 1530) | musician |
| Travers, John (b. 1703 d. 1758) | organ, composer |
| Tye, Christopher (b. 1505 d. 1580) | composer, musician |
| Urbani, Pietro (b. 1749 d. 1816) | composer, conductor |
| Watts, Isaac (b. 1674 d. 1748) | hymn writer, miscellaneous writer |
| Webbe, Samuel (b. 1740 d. 1816) | composer, organ |
| Wesley, Charles (b. 1707 d. 1788) | divine, hymn writer |
| Wise, Michael (b. 1647 d. 1687) | composer, musician |
| Woodd, Basil (b. 1760 d. 1831) | hymn writer |