List of Greek composers
This is a list of composers from Greece:
- Costas Andreou
- Dimitris Andrikopoulos (born 1971)
- Dionysis Boukouvalas (born 1979)
- Pavlos Carrer (1829–1896)
- Nikos Christodoulou (born 1959)
- Jani Christou (1926–1970), 20th-century classical and "meta-serialist" composer
- Dimitris Dragatakis (1914–2001)
- Antiochos Evangelatos (1903–1981), 20th-century composer and conductor
- Yorgos Foudoulis (born 1964)
- Manos Hadjidakis (1925–1994), modern composer best known for Academy Award-winning song, "Never on Sunday", from the film Never on Sunday (1960)
- Christos Hatzis (born 1953)
- George Kallis
- Manolis Kalomiris (1883–1962), composer and founder of Hellenic Conservatory and National Conservatoire
- Eleni Karaindrou (born 1939 or 1946)
- Panayiotis Kokoras (born 1974), contemporary composer
- Aristotelis Koundouroff (1896–1969), modern composer and musical theorist influenced by Sergei Prokofiev and Russian modernists
- Francisco Leontaritis (1518–1572)
- Dimitrios Levidis (1886–1951)
- Eugenia Manolides (born 1975)
- Nikolaos Mantzaros (1795–1872), Romantic music composer from Corfu
- Yannis Markopoulos (1939-) world known for "Who pays the Ferryman" (BBC) and many songs and classical works.
- Thanos Mikroutsikos (born 1947), contemporary composer
- Dimitris Mitropoulos (1896–1960), 20th-century composer and conductor of the New York Philharmonic
- Konstantinos Nikolopoulos (1786–1841)
- Lefteris Papadimitriou
- Vangelis Papathanassiou (born 1943), electronic music pioneer, film-score composer, best known for Academy Award-winning score for the film Chariots of Fire (1981), and scores for the films Blade Runner (1982) and 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)
- Spyridon Samaras (1861–1917), composer of operas, but widely known as for composition of the song "Olympic Hymn"
- Kyriakos Sfetsas (born 1945)
- Nikos Skalkottas (1904–1949), 20th-century composer
- Georgia Spiropoulos (born 1965)
- Ciriaco Taraxes (born 1969), 21st-century classical songs and chamber-music composer
- Dimitri Terzakis (born 1938), contemporary microtonal composer
- Mikis Theodorakis (born 1925), classical and film-score composer best known for symphonic works, oratorios and film scores for Zorba the Greek (1964), Serpico (1973) and Z (1969)
- Michalis Andronikou (born 1977)
- Michalis Travlos (born 1950), modern and experimental composer
- Vassilis Tsabropoulos (born 1966)
- Marios Varvoglis (1885–1967), orchestral, piano and chamber-music composer incorporating a French influence
- Dimitri Voudouris (born 1961), 21st-century classical, new music and electroacoustic composer
- Haris Xanthoudakis (born 1950)
- Nikos Xanthoulis (born 1962)
- Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001), 20th-century classical, experimental music and mathematical composer
- Spyridon Xyndas (1812–1896)
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