| Name | Born/Died | Famous for | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albert, Prince | 1840-1861 | Prince Consort to Queen Victoria | Reputed to be quite a good amateur organist. Contemporary accounts attest to the sensitivity of his playing when accompanying visiting singers and musicians to the royal households. |
| Beethoven, Ludwig van | |||
| Berkey, Jackson | member of Mannheim Steamroller | ||
| Braun, Wernher von | rocket scientist | When asked what he considered a "highlight" of his life, his response was when Alexander Schreiner let him play the Tabernacle organ during a visit to Salt Lake City | |
| Bruckner, Anton | 1824-1896 | ||
| David, Andrew | conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra | organ scholar at Kings, Cambridge | |
| Debussy, Claude | |||
| Dvorak, Antonin | |||
| Edison, Thomas | 1847-1931 | Edison's lab contained a pipe organ which Edison would play for relaxation or for the entertainment of his associates. | |
| Edwards, Huw | BBC News presenter | ||
| Elgar, Edward | |||
| Faure, Gabriel | composer | ||
| Fiedler, Arthur | |||
| Gleason, Jackie | actor, comedian | ||
| Griffin, Merv | 1925-2007 | TV personality | Played a Christmas organ performance from the Church of the Nativity, Jerusalem. Organist at St. Matthew's Catholic Church in San Mateo CA as a teenager. |
| Halley, Paul | member of the Paul Winter Consort | ||
| Jarrett, Keith | 1945- | jazz pianist | |
| Joel, Billy | 1949- | rock star | |
| Ketelbey, Albert | composer | ||
| Liliuokalani, Lydia | 1838-1917 | Queen of the Hawaiian islands | organist of Kawaiaha'o Church |
| Mahler, Gustav | composer | ||
| Marsh, John | BBC radio personality | made a record at Norwich Cathedral | |
| Moore, Dudley | 1935-2002 | actor | Played weddings from age 14. Organ scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford U. |
| Heath, Edward | Prime Minister of Great Britain 1970-74 | Organ scholar at Balliol College, Oxford. Retained a life long interest in the instrument. Herbert Howells's Partita for organ was dedicated to him in 1971. Received an honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Organists. | |
| May, Karl | German writer | ||
| McLain, Denny | baseball pitcher | ||
| Nixon, Richard | |||
| Pierce, David Hyde | actor | Tells the story of playing the organ at his sister's wedding and being so overly moved that he was unable to begin the recessional... | |
| Planck, Max | physicist, Nobel laureate | ||
| Pope Benedict | |||
| Preussen, Anna Amalie von | princess | ||
| Rogers, Fred | children's TV host | ||
| Rove, Carl | destroyer of constitutional rights | ||
| Scarlatti, Domenico | composer | ||
| Schmidt, Helmut | German chancellor | ||
| Schweitzer, Albert | |||
| Sergant, Sir Malcolm | organist of St. Mary's Church, Melton Mowbray in the 1920's | ||
| Smith, Jeff | The Frugal Gourmet | ||
| Steves, Rick | European travel show host | ||
| Stokowski, Leopold | |||
| Wakeman, Rick | rock star | Plays the pipe organ whenever he gets the chance and has multiple postings on youTube - even from a concert at Radio City Music Hall. He has used pipe organ on several albums. | |
| Waller, Fats | |||
| Wilson, Woodrow | |||
| Wonder, Stevie | ??? | ||
| Wood, Sir Henry | E.H.Lemare dedicated his Scherzo Fugue to him | ||
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