This is a list of notable composers of musicals.
See also List of musicals by composer
A–B
- Richard Adler
- Harry Akst
- Lynn Ahrens
- Jerome Alden
- Leroy Anderson
- Benny Andersson
- Harold Arlen
- Nat D. Ayer
- Burt Bacharach
- Sara Bareilles
- Gary Barlow
- Edward Barnes
- Lionel Bart
- George Bassman
- Irving Berlin
- Elmer Bernstein
- Leonard Bernstein
- Eubie Blake
- Marc Blitzstein
- Jeff Blumenkrantz
- Jerry Bock
- John Walter Bratton
- Leslie Bricusse
- Mel Brooks
- Jason Robert Brown
- Lew Brown
- David Bryan
C–D
E–F
G-H
I–J
K–L
- John Kander
- Yakov Kazyansky
- Gustave Kerker
- Jerome Kern
- Edward Kleban
- Michael John LaChiusa
- Burton Lane
- Kirke La Shelle
- Jonathan Larson
- Liza Lehmann
- Cyndi Lauper
- Carolyn Leigh
- Mitch Leigh
- Sylvester Levay
- Andrew Lippa
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Frank Loesser
- Frederick Loewe
- Robert Lopez
- Bree Lowdermilk
- Meyer Lutz
- Steven Lutvak
M–N
O–P
R
S
- Luis H. Salgado
- Harvey Schmidt
- Arthur Schwartz
- Stephen Schwartz
- Claude-Michel Schönberg
- Marc Schubring
- Al Sherman
- Robert B. Sherman
- Richard M. Sherman
- Robert J. Sherman
- Matthew Sklar
- Ted Snyder
- Julian Slade
- Walter Slaughter
- Charlie Smalls
- Edward Solomon
- Stephen Sondheim
- John Philip Sousa
- George Stansbury
- Matt Stone
- Oscar Straus
- Charles Strouse
- Leslie Stuart
- Jule Styne
T–Y
- Howard Talbot
- James W. Tate
- Jeanine Tesori
- Harry Tierney
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Pete Townshend
- Björn Ulvaeus
- James Valcq
- Jimmy Van Heusen
- Julian Wagstaff
- John Wallowitch
- Harry Warren
- Kurt Weill
- Richard A. Whiting
- Frank Wildhorn
- Meredith Willson
- Sandy Wilson
- Robert Wright
- Laurence Mark Wythe
- David Yazbek
- Maury Yeston
- Vincent Youmans