List of 1970s punk rock musicians

This is a list of notable first wave punk rock musicians (1971–1979).

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A

 * Abrasive Wheels
 * Adam & the Ants
 * The Adicts
 * Adolescents (band)
 * The Adverts
 * Agent Orange (band)
 * Alex Harvey (musician)
 * The Alley Cats (Los Angeles)
 * Alternative TV
 * Amazorblades
 * Amebix
 * Angelic Upstarts
 * Angry Samoans
 * Anti-Nowhere League
 * Anti-Pasti
 * Au Pairs
 * The Avengers
 * Art Attacks

B

 * Bad Brains
 * Bags
 * Big Balls and the Great White Idiot
 * Big Boys
 * Big in Japan
 * Black Flag
 * Black Randy and the Metrosquad
 * Blitzkrieg Bop
 * The Blockheads
 * Blondie
 * The Boomtown Rats
 * The Boys
 * Bush Tetras
 * The Business
 * Buzzcocks

C

 * Catholic Discipline
 * Cardiac Kidz
 * Channel 3
 * Charged GBH
 * Chelsea
 * The Cheifs
 * Cherry Vanilla
 * China White
 * Christian Death
 * Chrome
 * Chron Gen
 * Circle Jerks
 * Circus Mort
 * The Clash
 * Cock Sparrer
 * Cockney Rejects
 * James Chance and the Contortions
 * The Controllers
 * The Cortinas
 * The Cramps
 * Crass
 * Crime
 * Crime & the City Solution

D

 * The Damned
 * Darby Crash
 * The Dead Boys
 * Dead Kennedys
 * Death (protopunk band)
 * Defunkt
 * Descendents
 * Desperate Bicycles
 * Devo
 * The Dickies
 * The Dictators
 * The Dils
 * The Diodes
 * Discharge
 * Disorder
 * DMZ
 * DNA
 * D.O.A.
 * The Dogs
 * Destroy All Monsters
 * The Drones
 * Ian Dury

E

 * The East Coast Angels
 * Eater
 * Ebba Grön
 * Eddie and the Hot Rods
 * The Electric Eels
 * Elvis Costello and the Attractions
 * The Exploited
 * Elton Motello

F

 * Faith No More
 * The Fall
 * Fang
 * Fatal Microbes
 * The Fast
 * Fastbacks
 * Fear
 * The Feederz
 * Flamin' Groovies
 * The Flesh Eaters
 * The Fleshtones
 * The Flowers of Romance
 * Flyboys
 * Forgotten Rebels
 * Flipper
 * The Flys (UK band)
 * The Freeze

G

 * Gang of Four
 * Generation X
 * The Germs
 * GG Allin
 * The Go-Gos
 * The Gun Club

H

 * The Heartbreakers
 * Hüsker Dü
 * The Hollywood Squares

I

 * Iggy Pop
 * The Innocents

J

 * The Jam
 * Jayne County
 * The Jerks
 * Joan Jett
 * Johnny Moped

K

 * The Killjoys
 * Kommunity FK
 * KSMB
 * The Kids (Belgian band)

L

 * Leisure Class
 * LiLiPUT
 * London
 * London SS
 * The Lurkers
 * The Last
 * Lydia Lunch

M

 * Magazine
 * The Mau-Mau's
 * MC5
 * The Mekons
 * The Mentally Ill
 * The Members
 * The Membranes
 * Mentors
 * Métal Urbain
 * MDC
 * Middle Class
 * Milk 'N' Cookies
 * Mink DeVille
 * Minutemen
 * Misfits
 * Misspent Youth (band)
 * Mission of Burma
 * The Modern Lovers
 * Jon Moss
 * The Mutants

N

 * Necros
 * Negative Trend
 * Neon Boys
 * Neon Hearts
 * Nervous Gender
 * The New Order (band)
 * New York Dolls
 * Nina Hagen Band
 * The Nipple Erectors
 * The Now
 * The Nuns
 * Neo (British band)

O

 * The Offs
 * The Only Ones
 * The Outsiders
 * The Outcasts (Belfast band)

P

 * The Pagans
 * Patti Smith
 * The Partisans
 * Pere Ubu
 * Penetration
 * Peter and the Test Tube Babies
 * The Plague
 * Plasmatics
 * Poison Idea
 * Poison Girls
 * The Police
 * Pork Dukes
 * The Prefects
 * Public Image Ltd
 * Punishment of Luxury
 * Pure Hell
 * The Punks
 * Pylon

Q

 * ? and the Mysterians

R

 * Radio Birdman
 * Radio Stars
 * Ramones
 * The Reactionaries
 * Really Red
 * The Replacements
 * The Rezillos
 * Rhino 39
 * Riff Regan
 * Rikki and the Last Days of Earth
 * Rocket from the Tombs
 * The Ruts
 * The Radiators from Space
 * The Runaways

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 * The Saints
 * Scars
 * The Screamers
 * Sex Pistols
 * Sham 69
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 * Shattered Faith
 * The Shirts
 * Siouxsie and the Banshees
 * The Sillies
 * Skids
 * Skrewdriver
 * The Skulls
 * Slaughter & The Dogs
 * The Slits
 * Sniper
 * Social Distortion
 * Sonic's Rendezvous Band
 * The Specials
 * Special Duties
 * The Spitfire Boys
 * Spizzenergi
 * Splodgenessabounds
 * Steve Bjorklund
 * Stiff Little Fingers
 * Stinky Toys
 * The Stooges
 * The Stranglers
 * Subhumans (UK)
 * Subhumans (Canada)
 * Suburban Lawns
 * Suburban Studs
 * Subway Sect
 * Suicide
 * The Suicide Commandos
 * Swell Maps

T

 * T.S.O.L.
 * The Table
 * Teenage Head
 * Teenage Jesus and the Jerks
 * The Teen Idles
 * Television
 * Talking Heads
 * Toy Dolls
 * Toxic Reasons
 * The Tubes
 * Tubeway Army
 * Tuff Darts
 * Tuxedomoon

U

 * U.K. Subs
 * The Undertones
 * Ultravox
 * Urinals

V

 * The Vandals
 * The Varukers
 * Venus and the Razorblades
 * The Vibrators
 * Vice Squad
 * The Viletones
 * Void
 * (Richard Hell and) the Voidoids
 * VOM

W

 * Wayne County & the Electric Chairs
 * The Weirdos
 * Wipers
 * Wire

X

 * X (American band)
 * X (Australia)
 * XTC
 * X-Ray Spex

Z

 * Zero Boys
 * The Zeros (UK)
 * The Zeros (US)
 * Zolar X
 * Zounds