Toto je zoznam významných svetových lutnistov. Zoznam nie je úplný.
A Ariel Abramovich (1976) Emmanuel Adriaenssen (cca 1554 – 1604) Giovanni Maria Alemanni (16. storočie) Lorenzo Allegri (cca 1573 – 1648)
B Daniel Bacheler (1572 – 1619) Bálint Bakfark (1507 – 1576) Robert Ballard (cca 1572 – po 1650) Giulio Cesare Barbetta (1540 – 1603) Ernst Gottlieb Baron (1696 – 1760) Leonora Baroni (1611 – 1670) Robert Barto (cca 1955) Jean-Baptiste Besard (cca 1567 – po 1617) Suzanne Bloch (1907 – 2002) Charles Bocquet (aktívny 1594 – 1606) Pietro Paolo Borrono (cca 1490 – po 1563) Julian Bream (1933)
C Giulio Caccini (1551 – 1618) Vincenzo Capirola (1474 – po 1548) Marchetto Cara (cca 1470 – cca 1525) Marco Fabrizio Caroso (1535 – po 1605) Diomedes Cato (cca 1555 – po 1618) Sulpitia Cesis (1577 – ?) Luciano Contini (1958) Francis Cutting (cca 1550 – 1595/1596)
D Marco Dall’Aquila (cca 1480 – po 1538) Giovanni Battista Dalla Gostena (cca 1540 – 1598) Joan Ambrozio Dalza (? – 1508) Alexandre Danilevsky (1957) John Danyel (1564 – cca 1626) Fabrizio Dentice (cca 1539 – cca 1581) Luigi Dentice (cca 1510 – 1566) Wojciech Dlugoraj (cca 1557 – po 1619) John Dowland (1563 – 1626) Robert Dowland (cca 1591 – 1641) Pierre Dubut (cca 1610 – 1681) François Dufault (pred 1604 – cca 1672) Vincent Dumestre (1968) Desmond Dupré (1916 – 1974) Willem Cornelisz. van Duyvenbode (1542 – 1616)
E Eduardo Egüez (1959) Henri de l’Enclos (1592/1593 – 1649)
F Adam Falckenhagen (1697 – 1754) Charles Fleury (cca 1605 – 1652) Thomas Ford (cca 1580 – 1648)
G Michelangelo Galilei (1575 – 1631) Vincenzo Galilei (cca 1520 – 1591) Alexandre Gallot (cca 1625 – 1684) Jacques Gallot (cca 1625 – cca 1695) Paulo Galvão (1967) Denis Gaultier (1603 – 1672) Ennemond Gaultier (cca 1575 – 1651) Jacques Gaultier (koniec 16. storočia – pred 1660) Pierre Gaultier (1599 – 1681) Hans Gerle (cca 1500 – 1570) Walter Gerwig (1899 – 1966) Don Carlo Gesualdo (cca 1560 – 1613) Jacopo Gianninoto (1973) Bernardo Gianoncelli (? – pred 1650) Simon Gintzler (cca 1490 – po 1550) Giacomo Gorzanis (cca 1520 – medzi 1575/1579)
H Bernhard Joachim Hagen (1720 – 1787) Johann Georg Hamann (1730 – 1788) Lars Hannibal (1951) Roger Harmon Cuthbert Hely (1. polovica 17. storočia) Anthony Holborne (cca 1560 – 1602) Joachim van den Hove (cca 1567 – 1620)
CH François de Chancy (1600 – 1656)
I Yasunori Imamura (1953)
J Ivan Jelínek (1683 – 1759) John Jenkins (1592 – 1678) John Johnson (cca 1545 – 1594) Robert Johnson (cca 1583 – cca 1634) Robert Jones (cca 1577 – 1617) Hans Judenkönig (cca 1450 – 1526) Konrad Junghänel (1953)
K Sandor Kalloś (1935) Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger (cca 1580 – 1651) Edin Karamazov (1965) David Kellner (cca 1670 – 1748) Krzysztof Klabon (cca 1550 – cca 1616) Josef Kohaut (1738 – 1777) Karl Kohaut (1726 – 1784)
L Wolff Jakob Lauffensteiner (1676 – 1754) Adrian Le Roy (cca 1520 – 1598) Rolf Lislevand (1961) Massimo Lonardi (1953) Jan Antonín Losy (cca 1646 – 1721)
M Robert MacKillop (1959) Evangelina Mascardi (1977) John Maynard (1577 – po 1614) Ron McFarlane (1953) Tsiporah Meiran (1975) Pietro Paolo Melli (1579 – po 1623) Jean Mercure (cca 1600 – pred 1661) Elias Mertel (cca 1561 – 1626) René Mesangeau (cca 1567 – 1638) Francesco Canova da Milano (1497 – 1543) Simone Molinaro (cca 1565 – po 1613) Pascal Monteilhet (1982) Guillaume de Morlaye (cca 1510 – cca 1558) Charles Mouton (cca 1626 – 1710) Johann Daniel Mylius (cca 1583 – 1642)
N Hans Neemann (1898 – 1943) Hans Neusidler (cca 1508 – 1563) Konrad Neusidler (1541 – po 1604) Melchior Neusidler (1531 – cca 1591) Nigel North (1954)
O Patrick O’Brien (1947) Paul O’Dette (1954) Sebastian Ochsenkhun (1521 – 1574)
P Giovanni Paolo Paladino (?-1565) Conrad Paumann (cca 1410 – 1473) Julien Perrichon (1566 – cca 1600) Luca Pianca (1958) Maurizio Piantelli (1961) Alessandro Piccinini (1566 – cca 1638) Germain Pinel (cca 1600 – 1664) Jakub Polak (cca 1545 – cca 1605) Diana Poulton (1903 – 1995)
R Esaias Reusner (1636 – 1679) Albert de Rippe (cca 1500 – 1551) Laurencinus Romanus (cca 1550 – cca 1608) Anthony Rooley (1944) Philip Rosseter (1567/1568 – 1623) Luigi Rossi (cca 1597 – 1653)
S Jacques de Saint-Luc (1616 – cca 1710) Toyohiko Satoh (1943) Lynda Sayce Michael Schäffer (1937 – 1978) Arnolt Schlick (cca 1460 – po 1521) John Schneiderman Hopkinson Smith (1946) Francesco Spinacino (? – 1507) Terrell Stone
T Giovanni Antonio Terzi (cca 1580 – cca 1620) Giovanni Angelo Testagrossa (1470 – 1530) Oleg Timofejev (1963) Roman Turovskij-Savčuk (1961)
V Nicolas Vallet (cca 1583 – cca 1642) Vladimir Vavilov (1925 – 1973) Robert de Visée (cca 1655 – 1732/1733)
W Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687 – 1750) John Wilbye (1574 – 1638) Christopher Wilson (1951) Jozef van Wissem (1962)
Y Narciso Yepes (1927 – 1997)
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