List of famous conductors

• Claudio Abbado
• Maurice Abravanel[?]
• Salvatore Accardo[?] (more famous as a violinist)
• Karel Ancerl[?]
• Samuel Adler[?]
• Ernest Ansermet
• Bruno Aprea[?]
• Vladimir Ashkenazy (equally famous as a pianist)
• John Barbirolli
• Daniel Barenboim
• Rudolf Barshai[?]
• Leon Barzin[?]
• Serge Baudo[?]
• Thomas Beecham
• Jiri Belohlávek[?]
• Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli[?] (brother of piano soloist Arturo[?])
• Leonard Bernstein
• Paavo Berglund[?]
• Karl Böhm
• Richard Bonynge[?]
• Willi Boskovsky[?] (also famous as a violinist)
• Pierre Boulez
• Adrian Boult
• Benjamin Britten (more famous as a composer)
• Max Bruch (better known as a composer)
• Frans Bruggen[?] (also famous as a recorder player)
• Adolf Busch[?]
• Fritz Busch[?]
• Guido Cantelli
• Felix Carrasco[?]
• Sergiu Celibidache[?]
• Aaron Copland (more famous as a composer)
• Riccardo Chailly[?]
• André Cluytens[?]
• Robert Craft[?]
• Jose Cura[?] (better known as a singer)
• Andrew Davis
• Colin Davis
• Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos[?]
• Victor De Sabata[?]
• Placido Domingo (better known as a tenor)
• Antal Dorati[?]
• Charles Dutoit[?]
• Frederick Fennell[?]
• Franco Ferrara[?]
• Louis Fremaux[?]
• Ferenc Fricsay[?]
• Wilhelm Furtwängler
• Lamberto Gardelli[?]
• John Eliot Gardiner[?]
• Gianandrea Gavazzeni[?]
• Valery Gergiev[?]
• Carlo Maria Giulini[?]
• Jane Glover[?]
• Nicolai Golovanov[?]
• Eugene Goossens[?]
• Vittorio Gui[?]
• Bernard Haitink[?]
• Charles Hallé
• Herbert Hamilton Harty[?]
• Vernon Handley[?]
• Nikolaus Harnoncourt
• Philippe Herreweghe[?]
• Richard Hickox[?]
• Jascha Horenstein[?]
• Mariss Jansons[?]
• Neeme Järvi[?]
• Eugen Jochum[?]
• Robert Kajanus[?]
• Joseph Keilberth[?]
• Rudolf Kempe[?]
• Istvan Kertesz[?]
• Carlos Kleiber
• Erich Kleiber
• Otto Klemperer
• Paul Kletzki[?]
• Kyrill Kondrashin[?]
• Franz Konwitschny[?]
• Serge Koussevitzky[?]
• Josef Krips[?]
• Rafael Kubelik[?]
• Sigiswald Kuijken[?]
• Efrem Kurtz[?]
• Erich Leinsdorf[?]
• Gilbert Levine[?]
• James Levine[?]
• Andrew Litton[?]
• Jesus Lopos Coboz[?]
• Peter Maag[?]
• Lorin Maazel[?]
• Charles Mackerras[?]
• Zdenek Macal[?]
• Gustav Mahler (a famous conductor and composer)
• Neville Marriner[?]
• Jean Martinon[?]
• Eduardo Marturet
• Kurt Masur[?]
• Eduardo Mata[?]
• Zubin Mehta[?]
• Yehudi Menuhin (more famous as a violinist)
• Dimitri Mitropoulos[?]
• Francesco Molinari-Pradelli[?]
• Evgeny Mravinsky[?]
• Pierre Monteux
• Charles Munch[?]
• Riccardo Muti
• Václav Neumann[?]
• Roger Norrington[?]
• Sakari Oramo[?]
• Eugene Ormandy[?]
• Seiji Ozawa[?]
• Paul Paray
• Libor Pesek[?]
• Trevor Pinnock[?]
• Mikhail Pletnev[?] (also famous as a pianist)
• Georges Pretre[?]
• André Prévin[?]
• John Pritchard[?]
• Simon Rattle
• Karl Richter[?]
• Fritz Reiner[?]
• Artur Rodzinski[?]
• Hans Rosbaud[?]
• Mstislav Rostropovich(also famous as a cellist)
• Witold Rowicki[?]
• Max Rudolf[?]
• Esa-Pekka Salonen[?]
• Kurt Sanderling[?]
• Michele Santorsola[?]
• Jukka-Pekka Saraste[?]
• Malcolm Sargent[?]
• Wolfgang Sawallisch[?]
• Claudio Scimone[?] (founder and leader of Solisti Veneti[?])
• Hermann Scherchen[?]
• Thomas Schippers[?]
• Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt[?]
• Ole Schmidt[?]
• Carl Schuricht
• Gerard Schwarz[?]
• Tullio Serafin[?]
• Robert Shaw[?]
• Maxim Shostakovich[?]
• Constantin Silvestri
• Giuseppe Sinopoli[?]
• Stanislaw Skrowaczewski[?]
• Leonard Slatkin[?]
• Václav Smetacek[?]
• Georg Solti
• William Steinberg[?]
• Leopold Stokowski
• Richard Strauss (more famous as a composer)
• Igor Stravinsky (more famous as a composer)
• Masaaki Suzuki[?]
• Evgeny Svetlanov[?]
• Hans Swarowsky[?]
• Georg Szell[?]
• Václav Talich[?]
• Jeffery Tate[?]
• Yuri Temirkanov[?]
• Michael Tilson Thomas[?]
• Arturo Toscanini
• Gunther Wand[?]
• Bruno Walter
• Felix Weingartner[?]
• Walter Weller[?]
• Franz Welser-Möst[?]
• Henry Wood
• Eduard van Beinum[?]
• Christoph von Dohnanyi[?]
• Herbert von Karajan
• Lovro von Matacic[?]

Especially in opera, many composers were also Direttori.