List of Carnatic instrumentalists

This is a list of Carnatic instrumentalists: musicians famous for playing the carnatic music of South India. Musicians are listed by the instrument they have played.

Violin

 * Lalgudi Jayaraman
 * Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan
 * Tirumakudalu Chowdiah
 * Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu
 * M. S. Gopalakrishnan
 * T. N. Krishnan
 * H.K. Venkatram
 * L. Vaidyanathan
 * L. Subramaniam
 * L. Shankar
 * Mysore brothers - Mysore Nagaraj & Dr. Mysore Manjunath
 * Embar Kannan
 * G. J. R. Krishnan and Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi
 * Ragini Shankar
 * A. Kanyakumari
 * Ganesh and Kumaresh
 * M. Narmadha
 * Vittal Ramamurthy
 * V. V. Ravi
 * Nedumangad Sivanandan
 * Delhi P. Sunder Rajan
 * B. Sasikumar
 * Gingger Shankar
 * Jyotsna Srikanth
 * Balabhaskar
 * Abhijith P. S. Nair
 * Ambi Subramaniam

Veena

 * Karaikudi Sambasiva Iyer
 * Challapally Chitti Babu
 * Emani Sankara Sastry
 * S. Balachander
 * Doraiswamy Iyengar
 * E. Gayathri
 * Jayanthi Kumaresh
 * Kalpakam Swaminathan
 * Ranganayaki Rajagopalan
 * Rajhesh Vaidhya
 * Revathy Krishna

Mandolin

 * U. Srinivas

Chitra veena

 * N. Ravikiran

Guitar

 * R. Prasanna
 * Sukumar Prasad

Venu

 * T. R. Mahalingam
 * N. Ramani
 * Prapancham Sitaram
 * Shashank
 * K. Bhaskaran
 * T. Viswanathan
 * B. Shankar Rao
 * Tiruchy L. Saravanan

Nadaswaram



 * T.N. Rajarathnam Pillai
 * Namagiripettai Krishnan
 * Sheik Chinna Moulana
 * Sheik Mahaboob Subhani

Saxophone

 * Kadri Gopalnath

Piano

 * Anil Srinivasan

Mridangam

 * Palghat Mani Iyer
 * Palghat R. Raghu
 * Vellore G. Ramabhadran
 * Mavelikkara Velukkutty Nair
 * Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman
 * Trichy Sankaran
 * Karaikudi Mani
 * Ramnad V. Raghavan
 * T. Ranganathan
 * Palani Subramaniam Pillai
 * Mannargudi Easwaran
 * Guruvayur Dorai
 * T. V. Gopalakrishnan
 * Ramesh Srinivasan
 * Patri Satish Kumar
 * Erickavu N. Sunil
 * Thiruvarur Bakthavathsalam

Ghatam

 * T. H. "Vikku" Vinayakram
 * Ghatam Udupa

Kanjira

 * G. Harishankar
 * V. Selvaganesh

Thavil

 * Haridwaramangalam A. K. Palanivel

Morsing (jaw harp)

 * Srirangam Kannan

Idakka

 * Tripunithura Krishnadas

Jaltarang

 * Anayampatti S. Ganesan
 * Seethalakshmi Doraiswamy

Santoor

 * R. Visweswaran