Famous Cellists

Cellists A-J

• Anner Bylsma
• Antonio Janigro
• Auguste Franchomme
• Bernhard Cossmann
• Charles Baudiot
• Charles Curtis (student of La Monte Young)
• David Finckel
• David Geringas
• Diran Alexanian
• Dmitri Ferschtman
• Emanuel Feuermann
• Felix Battanchon
• Frans Helmerson
• Frantisek Brikcius
• Franz Bartolomey
• Friedrich Grützmacher
• Gaspar Cassado
• Georg Goltermann
• Gideon Freudmann
• Giovanni Battista Cirri (also a composer)
• Guillaume Hesse
• Ha-Na Chang
• Hugo Becker
• Jean-Louis Duport
• Jean-Pierre Duport
• Johann Justus Friedrich Dotzauer
• Julius Goltermann
• Kathryn Buccelli
• Leonid Gorokhov
• Luigi Boccherini (also a composer)
• Matthew Brubeck (an improvising cellist)
• Maurice Gendron
• Melora Creager (of Rasputina)
• Natalia Gutman
• Natalie Clein
• Ofra Harnoy
• Pablo Casals (often used the Catalonian "Pau" as a first name)
• Paul Bazelaire
• Pierre Fournier
  
• Richard Harwood
• Robert Cohen
• Rocco Filippini
• Roel Dieltiens
• Rushad Eggleston
• Sarah Balliet (of independent rock band Murder by Death)
• Sunny Davis (of band The Stiletto Formal)
• Tom Cora
• Valter Despalj

Cellists K-Q

• Gregor Piatigorsky
• Carlos Prieto
• Antonio Meneses
• Boris Pergamenschikow
• Aaron Minsky
• Alfredo Piatti
• Andrei Pricope
• Angelica May
• Friedrich August Kummer
• Charlotte Moorman
• Daniel Müller-Schott
• David Popper
• Dmitri Markevitch
• Gerhard Mantel
• Hai-Ye Ni
• Jacqueline du Pré
• Jacques Offenbach (also a composer)
• Jean-Guihen Queyras
• Jeffrey Krieger
• Joan Jeanrenaud
• Joel Krosnick
• Jonathan Koh
• Joseph Kaiser
• Julius Klengel
• Kermit Moore
• Laurence Lesser
• Lynn Harrell
• Maria Kliegel
• Paul Katz
• Jonathan Lewis
• Maurice Maréchal
• Miklos Perenyi
• Miloš Mlejnik
• Mischa Maisky
• Perttu Kivilaakso
• Ralph Kirshbaum
• Sebastian Lee
• Siegfried Palm
• Steven Isserlis
• Truls Mørk
• Tyme Mientka
• Ulrich Heinen
• Víctor Mirecki Larramat
• Vito Paternoster
• William Pleeth

Cellists R-Z

• Yo-Yo Ma
• Heinrich Schiff
• Hank Roberts
• Hannah Roberts
• Ciril Škerjanec
• Carl Schröder
• Bion Tsang
• Auguste Tolbecque
• Arthur Russell
• Bernhard Romberg
• Daniil Shafran
• Eduardo Vasallo
• Eino (Eicca) Toppinen (pioneer of cello rock and composer)
• Ernst Reijseger (an improvising cellist)
• Fiona Thompson
• Frances-Marie Uitti
• Giovanni Sollima (also a composer)
• Guilherme Rodrigues (an improvising cellist)
• Guilhermina Suggia
• Janet Schiff composer
• Janos Starker
• Jian Wang
• Jordi Savall
• Julian Lloyd Webber
• Kenneth Slowik
• Leonard Rose
• Mark Summer (of Turtle Island String Quartet)
• Martin Rummel
• Matthew Sharp
• Michael Croitoru-Weissman
  Michael Weintraub
• Mstislav Rostropovich
• Nathaniel Rosen
• Paul Tortelier
• Pieter Wispelwey
• Raphael Wallfisch
• Ryan Sweeney
• Werner Thomas-Mifune