List of Indian composers, arranged in alphabetical order:
Film composers
- Abhimann Roy
- Aby Tom Cyriac
- Ajay–Atul
- Alphons Joseph
- Amaal Mallik
- Amit Trivedi
- Anand–Milind
- Anil Biswas
- Anirudh Ravichander
- Ankit Tiwari
- Ananda Shankar
- Anu Malik
- Anup Rubens
- Anupam Roy
- A. R. Rahman
- Arjun Janya
- Asif Panjwani
- Bappi Lahiri
- Bennet Veetraag
- Berny Ignatius
- Pandit Bhajan Sopori
- Bhupen Hazarika
- Bijibal
- Bombay Ravi
- Chitragupta Shrivastava
- C. Ramchandra
- D. Imman
- Daboo Malik
- Damodar Raao
- Datta Naik
- Debojyoti Mishra
- Deva
- Devi Sri Prasad
- Freddie Mercury
- G. Devarajan
- G. V. Prakash Kumar
- Gangai Amaran
- Gopi Sunder
- Gurukiran
- Gulzar
- Hamsalekha
- Harris Jayaraj
- Harshavardhan Rameshwar
- Himesh Reshammiya
- Honey Singh
- Hridaynath Mangeshkar
- Ilaiyaraaja
- Ismail Darbar
- Jaidev
- Jatin–Lalit
- Jim Ankan Deka
- Jeet Ganguly
- Johnson
- Karthik
- Karthik Raja
- Karthikeya Murthy
- Kamal Heer
- Kartik Seshadri
- K. Raghavan
- Louis Banks
- Madan Mohan
- Manoj George
- Mani Sharma
- Meet Bros
- Mickey J Meyer
- Mithoon
- M. G. Radhakrishnan
- M. Jayachandran
- M. M. Keeravani
- M.S Baburaj
- Laxmikant–Pyarelal
- L. Subramaniam
- Kalyanji-Anandji
- Naushad Ali
- Nadeem-Shravan
- Nitin Dubey
- Nityanand Haldipur
- Oni-Adil
- O. P. Nayyar
- Ouseppachan
- Pankaj Kumar Mullick
- Parichay (singer)
- Pawandeep Rajan
- Pritam Chakraborty
- Raam Laxman
- Ram Sampath
- Raghu Kumar
- Rahul Dev Burman
- Ravi Basrur
- Rahul Raj
- Raichand Boral
- Pandit Ravi Shankar
- Ravindra Jain
- Raveendran
- Remo Fernandes
- Roop Kumar Rathod
- Rohan-Rohan
- Raju Singh
- Sachin Dev Burman
- Sajid-Wajid
- Sachin–Jigar
- Salil Chowdhury
- Salim–Sulaiman
- Sanju Rathod
- Sandeep Chowta
- Santhosh Narayanan
- Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy
- Shantanu Moitra
- Sharreth
- Shashwat Sachdev
- Shankar–Jaikishan
- Shaan Rahman
- Shekar Chandra
- Siddharth Landge
- Sricharan Pakala
- Srinivas Khale
- Shubha Mudgal
- Sneha Khanwalkar
- Sohail Sen
- S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
- S.P.Venkatesh
- Sudhir Phadke
- Sushin Shyam
- Tanishk Bagchi
- Tapas Relia
- Thaman S
- Vaibhav Santosh Naik
- Vidyasagar
- Vijai Bulganin
- Vijay Antony
- Vishal Bhardwaj
- Vishal–Shekhar
- Vishal Mishra
- Vishvesh Parmar
- Viswanathan–Ramamoorthy
- Vivek Sagar
- Yuvan Shankar Raja
- Zakir Hussain
- Zubeen Garg
- Vikram Montrose
Sajjad Hussain
Carnatic composers
- Annamacharya
- Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar
- Ilayaraja
- Irayimman Thampi
- L. Subramaniam
- Lalgudi Jayaraman
- M Balamuralikrishna
- Muthuswami Dikshitar
- Purandara Dasa
- Subbaraya Shastri
- Swathi Thirunal
- Syama Shastri
- Thyagaraja
- Periasamy Thooran
- Jayadeva
- VVS Murari
Western Classical/Art music Composers (of Indian descent)
- Clarence Barlow
- Ilayaraja
- L. Subramaniam
- Sandeep Bhagwati
- Reena Esmail
- Vijay Iyer
- Shirish Korde
- Rudresh Mahanthappa
- Naresh Sohal
- Param Vir