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The following is a list of notable people who compose or have composed soundtrack music for films (i.e. film scores), television, video games and radio.

A

Rod Abernethy — Star Trek: Encounters, Wheelman, Dead Space
Amanda Abizaid — The 13th Alley
J. J. Abrams (b. 1966) — Felicity, Lost, Alias, Fringe^[1]
André Abujamra (b. 1965) — Durval Discos, Carandiru^[2]
Bojan Adamič (1912–1995) — Valter Brani Sarajevo^[3]
John Adams (b. 1947) — Matter of Heart^[4]
Barry Adamson (b. 1958) — Lost Highway, Delusion
Richard Addinsell (1904–1977) — Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Dangerous Moonlight, Beau Brummell^[5]
John Addison (1920–1988) — Tom Jones, A Bridge Too Far^[6]
Larry Adler (1914–2001) — Genevieve^[7]
Mirwais Ahmadzaï (b. 1960) — No Body Is Perfect, Pardonnez-moi
Air (formed 1995) — The Virgin Suicides^[8]
Masami Akita (Merzbow; formed 1979) — The Dead Man 2: Return of the Dead Man, Lost Paradise
Yasushi Akutagawa (1925–1989) — Gate of Hell, Fires on the Plain, Mount Hakkoda^[9]
Ismo Alanko (b.1960) — Taivaan tulet, Remontti
Mazhar Alanson (b. 1950) — Everything's Gonna Be Great^[10]
Damon Albarn (b. 1968) — Ordinary Decent Criminal, Ravenous, 101 Reykjavík^[11]
Timothy Albee — Kaze, Ghost Warrior^[12]
Dan Andrei Aldea (b. 1950) — Nunta de piatră
Edesio Alejandro (b. 1958) — Life Is to Whistle, Suite Habana, Un rey en la Habana^[13]
Alessandro Alessandroni (b. 1925) — Any Gun Can Play
Jeff Alexander (1910–1989) — The Tender Trap, Jailhouse Rock, Kid Galahad^[14]
Hugo Alfvén (1872–1960) — The Girl of Solbakken, Mans kvinna
Hossein Alizadeh (b. 1951) — Gabbeh, A Time for Drunken Horses, Turtles Can Fly
A. R. Rahman (b. 1966) — Roja, Lagaan, Slumdog Millionaire^[15]
Herb Alpert (b. 1935) — Trabanten
John Altman (b. 1949) — Little Voice^[16]
William Alwyn (1905–1985) — The Fallen Idol, Odd Man Out, Fires Were Started
Masamichi Amano (b.1957) — Battle Royale, Giant Robo
W. D. Amaradeva
Alejandro Amenábar (b.1972) — The Sea Inside, The Others
Daniele Amfitheatrof
David Amram (b.1930) — The Manchurian Candidate, Splendor in the Grass
Anamanaguchi
Anand Raj Anand
Kai Normann Andersen
Murray C. Anderson
Benny Andersson (b.1946) — Mio in the Land of Faraway, Songs from the Second Floor, You, the Living
Michael Andrews (b.1959) — Donnie Darko, Orange County, Me and You and Everyone We Know
Jurriaan Andriessen
George Antheil (1900–1959) — In a Lonely Place, Ballet Mécanique
Paul Antonelli
Yoshino Aoki — video game music composer; Breath of Fire III, Breath of Fire IV
Louis Applebaum (1918–2000) — The Story of G.I. Joe
Takanori Arisawa
David Arkenstone
Harold Arlen (1905–1986) — The Wizard of Oz
Craig Armstrong (b.1959) — Romeo + Juliet, Ray, Moulin Rouge!
Leo Arnaud
David Arnold (b.1962) — Independence Day, Quantum of Solace, Little Britain
Sir Malcolm Arnold
Len Arran
Jorge Arriagada — Time Regained, Klimt, Salvador Allende
Claude Arrieu
Eduard Artemyev (b.1937) — Solaris, Stalker, Burnt by the Sun
Joseph Arthur
Art Zoyd (formed 1968) — new scores for Nosferatu, Metropolis, Häxan
Jeff Arwady
Noriyuki Asakura — video game composer; Onimusha, Way of the Samurai
Assassin (formed 1985) — La Haine
Edwin Astley
Richard Attree
Georges Auric (1899–1983) — La Belle et la bete, Bonjour Tristesse
Eric Avery
Max Avery Lichtenstein — Tarnation, Puzzlehead
Mark Ayres
Alexandre Azaria
Lex de Azevedo — The Swan Princess, Where the Red Fern Grows
Charles Aznavour

B

Luis Bacalov (b.1933) — Django
Burt Bacharach
Pierre Bachelet
Chris P. Bacon
Michael Bacon
Angelo Badalamenti (b.1937) — Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, The City of Lost Children
Klaus Badelt (b.1967) — Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Equilibrium, Wu ji
Constantin Bakaleinikoff
Mischa Bakaleinikoff
Buddy Baker (1918-2002) — The Fox and the Hound, The Apple Dumpling Gang, Napoleon and Samantha
Alexander Bălănescu
Iain Ballamy (b.1964) — MirrorMask
Glen Ballard
Richard Band (b.1953) — Re-Animator, Puppet Master
Thomas Bangalter (b.1975) — Irréversible, Enter the Void
Don Banks
Claus Bantzer (b.1942) — Cherry Blossoms
Lesley Barber
Gato Barbieri (b.1934) — Last Tango in Paris
Blixa Bargeld
Mister Bark
James Edward Barker — Psych:9, The Drought, The Vanishment
Warren Barker
Andrew Barnabas — MediEvil, Primal
Erran Baron Cohen — Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Brüno, Da Ali G Show
Alejandro Gutiérrez del Barrio
Bebe Barron (1925–2008) — Forbidden Planet
Louis Barron (1920–1989) — Forbidden Planet
John Barry (b. 1933) — Goldfinger, You Only Live Twice, Out of Africa, Midnight Cowboy
Steve Bartek (b.1952) — Novocaine, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, Desperate Housewives
Dee Barton
Stephen Barton
Fabio Barzagli
Jules Bass
George Bassman
Tyler Bates — 300, Watchmen, The Devil's Rejects
Hubert Bath
Mark Batson
Mike Batt
Julián Bautista
Arnold Bax
Les Baxter
Jeff Beal — Monk, Pollock
John Beal
Robin Beanland — Conker's Bad Fur Day, Conker: Live and Reloaded
Guy Béart
Bobby Beausoleil — Lucifer Rising
Giuseppe Becce (1877–1973) — The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Der letzte Mann, Tiefland
Christophe Beck
Jeff Beck
David Bell
Andrew Belling — Wizards
Richard Bellis
Marco Beltrami (b. 1966) — Scream, The Hurt Locker, I, Robot
Arthur Benjamin
Richard Rodney Bennett (b. 1936) — Murder on the Orient Express, Far from the Madding Crowd, Four Weddings and a Funeral
David Bergeaud — Prince Valiant, Ratchet & Clank, The Outer Limits
Irving Berlin (1888–1989) — Top Hat, Holiday Inn, Easter Parade
James Bernard
Charles Bernstein — A Nightmare on Elm Street, Cujo, White Lightning
Elmer Bernstein (1922–2004) — The Ten Commandments, The Magnificent Seven, To Kill a Mockingbird, Far from Heaven
Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990) — On the Waterfront
Harry Betts
Amin Bhatia
Bruno Bizarro (b.1979) — A Vida Privada de Salazar, Niño Migraña, O Rosto da Traição
Adam Berry — South Park, Balto II: Wolf Quest, Kim Possible
Dennis Berry
Peter Best (b.1943) — "Crocodile" Dundee, Doing Time for Patsy Cline, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
Kurt Bestor
Harry Betts
Vishal Bhardwaj (b.1960) — The Blue Umbrella, Omkara, Godmother
Vanraj Bhatia
Christian Biegai
Magnus Birgersson — Mirror's Edge
Anil Biswas
Ragnar Bjerkreim
Björk (b.1965) — Dancer in the Dark, Drawing Restraint 9
Stanley Black
Richard Blackford (b.1954) — House of Harmony, The Shell Seekers
Howard Blake
Art Blakey
Terence Blanchard (b.1962) — Inside Man, Malcolm X, Clockers, Sugar Hill
Jamie Blanks
Teddy Blass
Arthur Bliss
Len Blum
Armando Bo
Wes Boatman
Michael Boddicker
Ed Bogas — Fritz the Cat, Heavy Traffic, Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!)
Carsten Bohn
Claude Bolling
Bernardo Bonezzi
Luiz Bonfá (1922-2001) — Black Orpheus
Fred Bongusto
R C Boral
Simon Boswell (b.1956) — Santa Sangre, Dust Devil, Tin Man
Martin Böttcher (b.1927) — Winnetou, Derrick, Das schwarze Schaf
Frédéric Botton (1937-2008) — Hunting and Gathering
Roddy Bottum
Ned Bouhalassa
Pierre Boulez
Pieter Bourke
David Bowie
Scott Bradley
Steven Bramson
Glenn Branca
Otto Brandenburg
Angelo Branduardi — Momo
Stephen Bray
Michael Breckenridge
Buddy Bregman
Goran Bregović (b. 1950) — Time of the Gypsies, Underground
Joseph Carl Breil (1870–1926) — The Birth of a Nation, Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth
Willem Breuker
Philip Brigham
Jon Brion
Benjamin Britten
Jeff Britting
Timothy Brock
Michael Brook (b.1951) — An Inconvenient Truth, Into the Wild
Mel Brooks
Eric Brosius — System Shock 2, Thief: The Dark Project, Guitar Hero
Michael Bross — Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee, Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath
Dirk Brossé
Bruce Broughton
Leo Brouwer
Bill Brown
James Brown (1933–2006) — Black Ceasar, Slaughter's Big Ripoff
George Bruns
Joanna Bruzdowicz (b. 1943) — Vagabond, Jacquot de Nantes
Jimmy Bryant
Gavin Bryars
David Buckley
Paul Buckmaster — 12 Monkeys
Harold Budd
Roy Budd
Peter Buffett
Bun Bun — Breath of Fire, Metal Slug 1st Mission, Mega Man 3
Roman Bunka
Velton Ray Bunch
Geoffrey Burgon (1941-2010) — Brideshead Revisited, Monty Python's Life of Brian, The Chronicles of Narnia
Rahul Dev Burman
Sachin Dev Burman
Justin Burnett
T-Bone Burnett
Ralph Burns
Carter Burwell (b. 1954) — Fargo, Being John Malkovich, Blood Simple
David Buttolph
Joseph Byrd
David Byrne

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H

I

Jacques Ibert
Abdullah Ibrahim
Akira Ifukube
Alberto Iglesias (b.1955) —All About My Mother, The Kite Runner, The Constant Gardener
Ilaiyaraaja
John Illsley
Jerrold Immel (b.1936) —Dallas, How the West Was Won, Voyagers!
In the Nursery (formed 1981) —new music for the silent films The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Man with a Movie Camera, Asphalt
John Ireland
Markéta Irglová (b.1988) —Once
Pat Irwin
Peter Isaac —John Safran's Race Relations, Speaking in Tongues, Lawrence Leung's Choose Your Own Adventure
Mark Isham (b.1951) —Of Mice and Men, The Cooler, Blade, Crash
Chu Ishikawa —Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Gemini, A Snake of June
Emir Işılay
Masumi Itō
Teiji Ito (1935–1982) —Meshes of the Afternoon, The Very Eye of Night
Peter Ivers
Taku Iwasaki
Taro Iwashiro (b.1965) —Red Cliff, Memories of Murder
Masaharu Iwata

J

Steve Jablonsky (b.1970) —Transformers, The Island, Steamboy
Richard Jacques
Mick Jagger (b.1943) —Invocation Of My Demon Brother, Alfie
Jaidev
Shankar Jaikishan
Ravindra Jain
Bob James (b.1939) —Taxi, Daniel
Malek Jandali
Chas Jankel
Enzo Jannacci (b.1935) —Seven Beauties
Werner Janssen
Jean Michel Jarre
Maurice Jarre (1924-2009) —Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Topaz, Dead Poets Society
Michael Jary
Maurice Jaubert
Harris Jayaraj
Wyclef Jean
Jeet
Merrill Jenson
Zhao Jiping
Antonio Carlos Jobim (Tom Jobim)
Adan Jodorowsky (b.1979) —Echek, Teou
Alejandro Jodorowsky (b.1929) —El Topo, The Holy Mountain
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Elton John
Johnson
J. J. Johnson
Laurie Johnson
Nathan Johnson
Arthur Johnston
Bobby Johnston
Jim Johnston
Brian Jones
Dan Jones
John Paul Jones
Quincy Jones (b.1933) —In Cold Blood, In the Heat of the Night, The Color Purple, Roots
Tim Jones (b. 1971) —The Forsaken, Chuck, Karla
Raymond Jones
Ron Jones
Trevor Jones (b.1949) —The Dark Crystal, Dark City, Mississippi Burning, The Last of the Mohicans
Richard Joseph
Michael Josephs
Don Julian (1937-1998) —Savage!, Shorty the Pimp
David Julyan —Memento, The Descent, The Prestige
Junkie XL (b.1967) —DOA: Dead or Alive, SSX Blur, Need for Speed: ProStreet
Walter Jurmann
Patrick Juvet

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M

N

O

Karen O
Richard O'Brien (b.1942) — Shock Treatment
Martin O'Donnell
Tom O'Horgan
Walter O'Keefe
Sharon O'Neill
Paul Oakenfold
Deane Ogden (b.1974) — Dreams on Spec, Ball & Chain, The Sensei
Erkan Oğur
Hisayoshi Ogura
Mike Oldfield
Hal Oppenheim
Orbital
Buxton Orr
Shinji Orito
Riz Ortolani
Michiru Oshima (b.1961) — Ico, Legend of Legaia, Arc the Lad, Fullmetal Alchemist
Alex Otterlei — Xyanide, Totems
John Ottman (b.1964) — The Usual Suspects, Fantastic Four, Snow White: A Tale of Terror, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, X2
Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov (b.1936) — Ivan's Childhood, Andrei Rublev, War and Peace
Mark Ovenden
Atilla Özdemiroğlu

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T

U

Matt Uelmen
Nobuo Uematsu (b.1959) —primarily video game music composer; Final Fantasy series, Lost Odyssey, Final Fantasy VII Advent Children, Blue Dragon
Tatsuya Uemura
Kōji Ueno
Yoko Ueno
Özkan Uğur
Shigeru Umebayashi (b,1951) —In the Mood for Love, 2046, House of Flying Daggers, Tears for Sale
Piero Umiliani
Underworld
Vladimir Ussachevsky (1911–1990) —No Exit, Line of Apogee

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References

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