Im Folgenden befindet sich eine (noch sehr unvollständige) Liste bekannter Dirigenten; wenn Sie eine neue Dirigentenbiografie erstellt haben, tragen sie bitte den Namen hier ein:
A
- Claudio Abbado (1933)
- Hermann Abendroth (1883–1956)
- Maurice Abravanel (1903–1993)
- Henrie Adams (1959)
- Lahnor Adjartey Adjei (1971)
- Adriano (1944)
- Jonas Alber (1969)
- Werner Andreas Albert (1935)
- George Alexander Albrecht (1935)
- Gerd Albrecht (1935)
- John Alldis (1929)
- Kenneth Alwyn (1925)
- Klaus Ammann (1950)
- Karel Ancerl (1908–1973)
- Ernest Ansermet (1883–1969)
- Henri Arends (1921–1993)
- Juri Aronowitsch (1932–2002)
- Conrad Artmüller (1944)
- Stefan Asbury
- Wladimir Aschkenasi (1937)
- Sir David Atherton (1944)
- Moshe Atzmon (1931)
- Philippe Auguin (1961)
- John Axelrod
B
- Horst-Hans Bäcker (1959)
- Roland Bader (1938)
- Matthias Bamert (1942)
- Sir John Barbirolli (1899–1970)
- Daniel Barenboim (1942)
- Rudolf Barschai (1924)
- Pierre Bartholomée (1937)
- Serge Baudo (1927)
- Rudolf Baumgartner (1917–2002)
- Steuart Bedford (1939)
- Sir Thomas Beecham (1879–1961)
- Claus-Carsten Behrendt (1971)
- Eduard van Beinum (1900–1959)
- Heribert Beissel
- Jirí Belohlávek (1946)
- Erich Bergel (1930-1998)
- Paavo Berglund (1929)
- Karl-Friedrich Beringer (1948)
- Frieder Bernius (1947)
- Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990)
- Gary Bertini (1927–2005)
- Matthew Best (1957)
- Elke Mascha Blankenburg (1943)
- Leo Blech (1871–1958)
- Harry Blech (1910-1999)
- Herbert Blomstedt (1927)
- Karl Böhm (1894–1981)
- Boris Böhmann (1964)
- Emil Bohnke (1888–1928)
- Richard Bonynge (1930)
- Andrey Boreyko (1957)
- Willi Boskovsky (1909–1991)
- Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979)
- Pierre Boulez (1925)
- Sir Adrian Boult (1889–1983)
- Ernest Bour (1913–2001)
- Martyn Brabbins
- Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)
- Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg (1906–1985)
- Frans Brüggen (1934)
- Eduard Büchsel (1917)
- Hans von Bülow (1830–1894)
- Jürgen Budday (1948)
- Fritz Busch (1890–1951)
- Semyon Bychkov (1952)
C
- Oleg Caetani (1956)
- Pedro Ignacio Calderón (1933)
- Sylvain Cambreling (1948)
- Paolo Carignani (1961)
- Roberto Carnevale (1966)
- Jean-Claude Casadesus (1935)
- Juan José Castro (1895-1968)
- Sergiu Celibidache (1912–1996)
- Riccardo Chailly (1953)
- Zdenek Chalabala (1899–1962)
- Hans Chemin-Petit (1902–1981)
- William Christie (1944)
- Myung-Whun Chung (1953)
- Nicholas Cleobury (1950)
- André Cluytens (1905–1967)
- Jan Cober (1951)
- Edmon Colomer
- Édouard Colonne (1838–1910)
- James Conlon (1950)
- Marius Constant (1925–2004)
- Michel Corboz (1934)
- Robert Craft (1923)
- Marcus Creed (1951)
D
- Jean-Luc Darbellay (1946)
- Thomas Dausgaard (1963)
- Dennis Russell Davies (1944)
- Meredith Davies (1922)
- Sir Andrew Davis (Komponist) (1944)
- Carl Davis (1936)
- Sir Colin Davis (1927)
- Andreas Delfs (1959)
- Roger Désormière (1898–1963)
- Dean Dixon (1915–1976)
- Issai Dobrowen (1891–1953)
- Christoph von Dohnányi (1929)
- Plácido Domingo (1941)
- Antal Doráti (1906–1988)
- Veronika Duderowa
- Charles Dutoit (1936)
- Sir Edward Downes (1924)
E
- Christian Ehwald (1953)
- Kurt Eichhorn (1908–1994)
- Mark Elder (1947)
- Philippe Entremont (1934)
- Peter Eötvös (1944)
- Eric Ericson (1918)
- Mark Ermler (1932–2002)
- Christoph Eschenbach (1940)
- Heribert Esser
- Jury Everhartz (1971)
F
- Henri-Claude Fantapié (1938)
- Wladimir Fedossejew (1932)
- Eric Fenby (1906–1997)
- Frederick Fennell (1914–2004)
- Achim Fiedler (1965)
- Arthur Fiedler (1894–1979)
- Max Fiedler (1859-1939)
- Ádám Fischer (1949)
- Iván Fischer (1951)
- Claus Peter Flor (1953)
- Lawrence Foster (1941)
- Alun Francis (1943)
- Justus Frantz (1944)
- Ferenc Fricsay (1914–1963)
- Oscar Fried
- Heinz Friesen (1934)
- Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (1933)
- Heiko Mathias Förster
- János Fürst (1935)
- Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886–1954)
G
- Lamberto Gardelli (1915–1998)
- Sir John Eliot Gardiner (1943)
- Daniele Gatti (1961)
- Gianluigi Gelmetti (1945)
- Waleri Gergijew (1953)
- Charles Gerhardt (1927–1999)
- Sir Alexander Gibson (1926–1995)
- Michael Gielen (1927)
- Carlo Maria Giulini (1914–2005)
- Reinhard Goebel (1952)
- Walter Goehr (1903–1960)
- Wolfgang Gönnenwein (1933)
- Szymon Goldberg (1909-1993)
- Edwin Franko Goldman (1878–1956)
- Miguel Angel Gomez-Martínez (1949)
- Kurt Graunke (1915–2005)
- Howard Griffiths
- Sir Charles Groves (1915–1992)
- Peter Gülke (1934)
- Theodor Guschlbauer
- Enoch zu Guttenberg
H
- Friedrich Haider (1961)
- Bernard Haitink (1929)
- Vernon Handley (1930)
- Daniel Harding (1975)
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1929)
- Thomas Hauschild (1964)
- Wolf-Dieter Hauschild (1937)
- Robert Heger (1886–1978)
- Siegfried Heinrich (1935)
- Michael Heise (1940)
- Thomas Hengelbrock (1958)
- Lutz Herbig
- Philippe Herreweghe (1947)
- Richard Hickox (1948)
- Johann Adam Hiller (1728–1804)
- Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)
- Michael Hofstetter
- Christopher Hogwood (1941)
- Heinz Holliger (1939)
- Heinrich Hollreiser (1913)
- Manfred Honeck (1958)
- Jascha Horenstein (1898–1973)
- Markus Huber
- Will Humburg
- Mathias Husmann (1948)
I
- Eliahu Inbal (1936)
- Anatoli Iwanow (1934)
- Konstantin Iwanow (Dirigent) (1907–1984)
J
- René Jacobs (1946)
- Marek Janowski (1939)
- Mariss Jansons (1943)
- Neeme Järvi (1937)
- Paavo Järvi (1962)
- František Jílek (1913–1993)
- Eugen Jochum (1902–1987)
- Julia Jones (1961)
- Árpád Joó (1948)
- Armin Jordan (1932)
- James Judd (1949)
- Louis-Antoine Jullien(1812-1860) http://louisjullien.site.voila.fr
- Michail Jurowski (1945)
- Vladimir Jurowski (1972)
K
- Oswald Kabasta (1896–1946)
- Christian Kabitz (1950)
- Thomas Kalb (1959)
- Tõnu Kaljuste (1953)
- Carlos Kalmar
- Okko Kamu (1946)
- Shigeru Kan-no (1959)
- Gilbert E. Kaplan (1941)
- Herbert von Karajan (1908–1989)
- Herbert Kegel (1920–1990)
- Joseph Keilberth (1908–1968)
- Rudolf Kempe (1910–1976)
- Paul van Kempen (1893–1955)
- István Kertész (1929–1973)
- Kim Byong Hwa (1936)
- Kim Il Jin (1956)
- Hans-Peter Kirchberg
- Dmitri Kitajenko (1940)
- Armin Klaes (1958)
- Bernhard Klee (1936)
- Carlos Kleiber (1930–2004)
- Erich Kleiber (1890–1956)
- Otto Klemperer (1885–1973)
- August Klughardt (1847–1902)
- Hans Knappertsbusch (1888–1965)
- Dietrich Knothe (1929–2000)
- Zdenek Košler (1928–1995)
- Olaf Koch (1932–2001)
- Zoltán Kocsis (1952)
- Kirill Kondraschin (1914–1981)
- Franz Konwitschny (1901–1962)
- Ton Koopman (1944)
- Jiri Kout
- Serge Kussewitzky (1874–1951)
- Clemens Krauss (1893–1954)
- Yakov Kreizberg (1959)
- Hermann Kreutz (1931)
- Josef Krips (1902–1974)
- Rafael Kubelik (1914–1996)
- Sigiswald Kuijken (1944)
- Dieter Kurz (1945)
L
- Charles Lamoureux (1834-1899)
- Scott Lawton (1960)
- Philip Ledger (1937)
- Fritz Lehmann (1904–1956)
- René Leibowitz (1913–1972)
- Erich Leinsdorf (1912–1993)
- Ferdinand Leitner (1912–1996)
- Gustav Leonhardt (1928)
- Raymond Leppard (1927)
- Hermann Levi (1839–1900)
- James Levine (1943)
- Alexander Liebreich (1968)
- Andrew Litton (1959)
- David Lloyd-Jones (1934)
- Jesús López Cobos (1940)
- Fabio Luisi (1959)
- Christopher Lyndon-Gee (1954)
M
- Lorin Maazel (1930)
- Charles Mackerras (1925)
- Bruno Maderna (1920–1973)
- Othmar Mága (1929)
- Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
- Igor Markevich (1912–1983)
- Jun Märkl (1959)
- Sir Neville Marriner (1924)
- Kurt Masur (1927)
- Lovro von Matačić (1899-1985)
- Gunhard Mattes
- Otto Matzerath (1914–1963)
- Zubin Mehta (1936)
- Cornelius Meister (1980)
- Carl Melles (1926–2004)
- Willem Mengelberg (1871–1951)
- Ingo Metzmacher (1957)
- Roberto Minczuk
- Dimitri Mitropoulos (1896–1960)
- Pierre Monteux (1875–1964)
- Felix Mottl (1856–1911)
- Jewgeni Mrawinski (1903–1988)
- Karl Muck (1859–1940)
- Rolf-Hans Müller (1928–1990)
- Helmut Müller-Brühl (1933)
- Heinz Müller-Grassmann
- Charles Münch (1891–1968)
- Rainer Mühlbach
- Karl Münchinger (1915–1990)
- Eduard Muri
- Ricardo Muti (1941)
N
- Kent Nagano (1951)
- Günter Neuhold (1947)
- Václav Neumann (1920–1995)
- Hans Niedecken-Gebhardt
- Arthur Nikisch (1855–1922)
- Sir Roger Norrington (1934)
- Norbert Nozy (1952)
O
- Kazushi Ono (1960)
- Eugene Ormandy (1899–1985)
- Andrès Orozco-Estrada (1977)
- Michael Ostrzyga (1975)
- Seiji Ozawa (1935)
- Sakari Oramo
P
- Jorma Panula (1930)
- Antonio Pappano (1959)
- Andrew Parrott (1947)
- Jules Pasdeloup (1819-1887)
- Giuseppe Patané (1932–1989)
- Libor Pešek (1933)
- Sef Pijpers (1929)
- Trevor Pinnock (1946)
- Michel Plasson (1933)
- Mikhail Pletnev (1957)
- Valéry Polyansky (1949)
- Max Pommer (1936)
- Christoph Poppen (1956)
- Georges Prêtre (1924)
- André Previn (1929)
- Christof Prick (1946)
- Sir John Pritchard (1921–1989)
R
- Beat Raaflaub (1946)
- Natan Rachlyn (1906–1979)
- Gal Rasché (1960)
- Sir Simon Rattle (1955)
- Stefan Anton Reck (1960)
- Kurt Redel (1918)
- Fritz Reiner (1888–1963)
- Hans Richter (1843–1916)
- Karl Richter (1926–1981)
- Karl Anton Rickenbacher (1940)
- Julius Rietz (1812–1877)
- Helmuth Rilling (1933)
- Karl Ristenpart (1900–1967)
- Artur Rodzinski (1892–1958)
- Hans Rosbaud (1895–1962)
- Gennadi Roschdestwenski (1931)
- Mstislaw Rostropowitsch (1927)
- Ludwig Rottenberg (1864–1932)
- Hans-Joachim Rotzsch (1929)
- Catherine Rückwardt (1960)
- Konrad Ruhland (1932)
S
- Esa-Pekka Salonen (1958)
- Kurt Sanderling (1912)
- Jukka-Pekka Saraste (1956)
- Malcolm Sargent (1895–1967)
- Wolfgang Sawallisch (1923)
- Henrik Schaefer (1968)
- Hermann Scherchen (1891–1966)
- Lalo Schifrin (1931)
- Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (1900–1973)
- Koen Schoots (1960)
- Gustav Schreck (1849–1918)
- Wolfgang Seeliger (1946)
- Werner Seiss
- Tullio Serafin (1878–1968)
- Ru Sevenhuijsen
- Lior Shambadal (1950)
- Giuseppe Sinopoli (1946–2001)
- Steven Sloane (1958)
- Emmerich Smola (1922)
- Stefan Soltesz (1949)
- Sir Georg Solti (1912–1997)
- Wladimir Spiwakow (* 1944)
- Hans Stadlmair (1929)
- Horst Stein (1928)
- William Steinberg (1899–1978)
- Leopold Stokowski (1882–1977)
- Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
- William T. Stromberg (1964)
- Joseph Sucher (1843–1908)
- Otmar Suitner (1922)
- Hans Swarowsky (1899–1975)
- Jewgeni Swetlanow (1928–2002)
- George Szell (1897–1970)
- Mario Schwarz (1947)
T
- Václav Talich (1883–1961)
- Jeffrey Tate (1943)
- Emil Tchakarov (1948-1991)
- Yuri Temirkanov (1938)
- Klaus Tennstedt (1926–1998)
- Christian Thielemann (1959)
- Kurt Thomas (1904–1973)
- Theodore Thomas (1835-1905)
- Bryden Thomson (1929)
- Michael Tilson-Thomas (1944)
- Yan Pascal Tortelier (1947)
- Arturo Toscanini (1867–1957)
U
- Enrique Ugarte (1957)
- Takao Ukigaya (1953)
- Wolfgang Unger (1948–2004)
- Peter Unterberg (1971)
V
- Osmo Vänskä (1953)
- Silvio Varviso (1924)
- Sándor Végh (1912–1997)
- Mario Venzago (1948)
- Marcello Viotti (1954–2005)
- Fritz Volbach
- Hans Vonk (1942–2004)
W
- Edo de Waart (1941)
- Hiroshi Wakasugi (1935)
- Heinz Wallberg (1923–2004)
- Alfred Wallenstein (1898-1983)
- Alfred Walter
- Bruno Walter (1876–1962)
- Günter Wand (1912–2002)
- Jörg-Peter Weigle (1953)
- Sebastian Weigle (1961)
- Ralf Weikert (1940)
- Bruno Weil (1949)
- Felix Weingartner (1863–1942)
- Walter Weller (1939)
- Franz Welser-Möst (1960)
- Stig Westerberg (1918–1999)
- Johannes Wildner (1956)
- Sir David Willcocks (1919)
- Ulrich Windfuhr (1960)
- Antoni Wit (1944)
- Elmar Witt (1960)
- Hugh Wolff (1953)
- Sir Henry Wood (1869–1944)
- Erik van der Wurff (1945)
Y
- Martin Yates
- Israel Yinon (1956)
- Simone Young (1961)
Z
- Lothar Zagrosek (1942)
- Benjamin Zander (1939)
- Alberto Zedda (1928)
- Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871–1942)
- Hans Zender (1936)
- Winfried Zillig (1905–1963)
- David Zinman (1936)
- Otto Zurmühle (1894–1974)