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.
Bowed strings
[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
Plucked strings
[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]
[Chitra veena]
[Guitar]
Winds
[Venu]
- T. R. Mahalingam
- N. Ramani
- Prapancham Sitaram
- Shashank
- K. Bhaskaran
- T. Viswanathan
- B. Shankar Rao
- Tiruchy L. Saravanan
[Nadaswaram]
[Saxophone]
Percussions
[Piano]
[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