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Abram, John (b. 1959) (UK–Canada)
Adamia, Marina (b. 1957) (Georgia–UK)
Adès, Thomas (b. 1971)
Adkins, Monty (b. 1972)
Alberga, Eleanor (b. 1949) (Jamaica–UK)
Allen, David (b. 1986)
Anderson, Julian (b. 1967)
Andrew, Kerry (b. 1978)
Arnell, Richard (b. 1917 – d. 2009)
Arnold, Sir Malcolm (b. 1921 – d. 2006)
Ayres, Paul (b. 1970)
Ayres, Richard (b. 1965) (UK–The Netherlands)
Bailie, Joanna (b. 1973)
Bainbridge, Simon (b. 1952 – d. 2021)
Baker, Richard (b. 1972)
Barker, Paul (b. 1956) (UK–Mexico)
Barrett, Natasha (b. 1972) (UK–Norway)
Barrett, Richard (b. 1959)*
Bauld, Alison (b. 1944) (Australia–UK)
Beamish, Sally (b. 1956)
Beat, Janet (b. 1937)
Bedford, David (b. 1937 – d. 2011)
Bedford, Luke (b. 1978)*
Bell, Iain (b. 1980)
Benjamin, Sir George (b. 1960)*
Benjamin, Tim (b. 1975)
Bennett, Sir Richard Rodney (b. 1936 – d. 2012) (UK–USA)
Berkeley, Michael, Baron Berkeley of Knighton (b. 1948)
Betro, Denis (b. 1949) (New Zealand–UK)
Biberian, Gilbert (b. 1944)
Billam, Peter (b. 1948) (UK–Australia)
Bingham, Judith (b. 1952)
Birtwistle, Sir Harrison (b. 1934 – d. 2022)
Bizzell-Browning, Nik (b. 1961)
Blackburn, Philip (b. 1962) (UK–USA)
Blackford, Richard (b. 1954)
Blake, David (b. 1936)
Blake, Howard (b. 1938)
Bochmann, Christopher (b. 1950) (UK–Portugal)*
Bourgeois, Derek (b. 1941 – d. 2017)
Bowden, Mark (b. 1979)
Bowler, Laura Jayne (b. 1986)
Braid, David (b. 1970)
Bray, Charlotte (b. 1982)
Brinch, Gregers (b. 1964) (Denmark–UK)
Brown, Christopher (b. 1943)
Bryars, Gavin (b. 1943)
Buller, John (b. 1927 – d. 2004)
Bullock, Dafydd (b. 1953)
Burgon, Geoffrey (b. 1941 – d. 2010)
Burrell, Diana (b. 1948)
Burt, Francis (b. 1926 – d. 2012) (UK–Austria)
Butler, Martin (b. 1960)
Butterworth, Arthur (b. 1923 – d. 2014)
Caine, Edward (b. 1980)
Campkin, Alexander (b. 1984)
Capperauld, Jay (b. 1989)
Carpenter, Gary (b. 1951)
Cary, Tristram (b. 1925 – d. 2008) (UK–Australia)
Cashian, Philip (b. 1963)
Casken, John (b. 1949)
Casserley, Lawrence (b. 1941)
Casswell, Nicholas (b. 1974)*
Causton, Richard (b. 1971)
Chilcott, Bob (b. 1955)
Child, Peter (b. 1953) (UK–USA)
Ching, Jeffrey (b. 1965) (The Philippines–UK)
Churchill, Gareth Peredur (b. 1980)
Clarke, Ian (b. 1964)
Clarke, James (b. 1957)
Clarke, Symon (b. 1957)
Clements, Dominy (b. 1964) (UK–The Netherlands)*
Clyne, Anna (b. 1980)
Cole, Jonathan (b. 1970)*
Cole, William (b. 1990)
Connolly, Justin (b. 1933 – d. 2020)
Cooke, Arnold (b. 1906 – d. 2005)
Cooke, Richard (b. 1950)
Cowie, Edward (b. 1943)
Crabtree, Paul (b. 1960) (UK–USA)
Crane, Laurence (b. 1961)
Cresswell, Lyell (b. 1944 – d. 2022) (New Zealand–UK)
Croft, John (b. 1971) (New Zealand–UK)
Crosse, Gordon (b. 1937 – d. 2021)
Cutler, Joe (b. 1968)
Dalby, Martin (b. 1942 – d. 2018)
Daverson, Steven (b. 1985)
Davidson, Lindsay (b. 1973) (UK–Poland)
Davies, Hugh (b. 1943 – d. 2005)*
Davies, Hywel (b. 1962)
Davies, Sir Peter Maxwell (b. 1934 – d. 2016)
Davies, Tansy (b. 1973)
Davis, Carl (b. 1936) (USA–UK)
Davismoon, Stephen (b. 1964)*
Dedman, Malcolm (b. 1948)*
Dench, Chris (b. 1953) (UK–Australia)
Denyer, Frank (b. 1943)
Dickinson, Peter (b. 1934)
Dillon, James (b. 1950)*
Dixon, Jason (b. 1977)
Dove, Jonathan (b. 1959)
Downes, Andrew (b. 1950 – d. 2023)
Duddell, Joe (b. 1972)
Dudley, Anne (b. 1956)
Duggan, Nick (b. 1962)
Earl, David (b. 1951) (South Africa–UK)
Edlin, Paul Max (b. 1963)
Elcock, Steve (b. 1957) (UK–France)
Elias, Brian (b. 1948)
Ellis, David (b. 1933)
El-Turk, Bushra (b. 1982)
Emsley, Richard (b. 1951)
Erber, James (b. 1951)
Esland, Anthony (b. 1972)
Fanshawe, David (b. 1942 – d. 2010)
Fergler, Adam (b. 1984)
Fernández, Agustín (b. 1958) (Bolivia–UK)*
Fernando, Samantha (b. 1984)
Ferneyhough, Brian (b. 1943)*
Feshareki, Shiva (b. 1987)
Finnis, Edmund (b. 1984)
Finnissy, Michael (b. 1946)
Firsova, Alissa (b. 1986)
Firsova, Elena (b. 1950) (Russia–UK)
Fischman, Rajmil (b. 1956) (Peru–UK)
Fitch, Fabrice (b. 1967) (France–UK)
Fitkin, Graham (b. 1963)
Fokkens, Robert (b. 1975) (South Africa–UK)
Forbes, Sebastian (b. 1941)
Ford, Andrew (b. 1957) (UK–Australia)
Foskett, Ben (b. 1977)
Fowler, Jennifer (b. 1939) (Australia–UK)
Fox, Christopher (b. 1955)
Frances-Hoad, Cheryl (b. 1980)
French, Jez riley (b. 1965)
Frith, Fred (b. 1949) (UK–USA)
Fujikura, Dai (b. 1977) (Japan–UK)
Gait, Benjamin (b. 1987)
Gardner, John (b. 1917 – d. 2011)
Gaughan, Martin (b. 1968)
Geddes, John Maxwell (b. 1941 – d. 2017)
Gibson, Stephen (b. 1957)
Gilbert, Anthony (b. 1934)
Giorgetti, Daniel (b. 1971)
Gisby, Steve (b. 1975)
Glazier, Paul (b. 1965) (UK–The Netherlands)
Glover, Richard (b. 1981)
Glyn, Gareth (b. 1951)
Goehr, Alexander (b. 1932)
Goodall, Howard (b. 1958)
Gorb, Adam (b. 1958)
Gordon, Michael Zev (b. 1963)
Gorton, David (b. 1978)
Gough, Orlando (b. 1953)
Goves, Larry (b. 1980)
Graham, David Paul (b. 1951) (UK–Germany)
Gregson, Edward (b. 1945)
Grey, Geoffrey (b. 1934)
Griffin, Peter (b. 1974)
Grime, Helen (b. 1981)
Gross, Eric (b. 1926 – d. 2011) (UK–Australia)
Guy, Barry (b. 1947)
Hall, Emily (b. 1978)
Hallgrímsson, Hafliði (b. 1941) (Iceland–UK)
Halliday, Kim (b. 1961)
Hamilton, Iain (b. 1922 – d. 2000)
Hanchet, Pat (b. 1938)
Harper, Edward (b. 1941 – d. 2009)
Harrex, Patrick (b. 1946)
Harrison, Bryn (b. 1969)
Harrison, Jonty (b. 1952)
Harrison, Sadie (b. 1965) (Australia–UK)
Harrold, Tom (b. 1991)
Harry, Martyn (b. 1964)
Harvey, Jonathan (b. 1939 – d. 2012)
Hasse, Jean (b. 1958) (USA–UK)
Hawkins, John (b. 1949)
Hawkins, Malcolm (b. 1944) (UK–USA)*
Hayden, Sam (b. 1968)
Hayes, Morgan (b. 1973)
Hayward, Robin (b. 1969) (UK–Germany)
Heath, Dave (b. 1956)
Hedges, Anthony (b. 1931 – d. 2019)
Hellawell, Piers (b. 1956) (UK–Ireland)
Herbert, Matthew (b. 1972)
Hesketh, Kenneth (b. 1968)
Higgins, Gavin (b. 1983)
Hind, Rolf (b. 1964)
Hoban, Wieland (b. 1978) (UK–Germany)*
Hobbs, Christopher (b. 1950)*
Hoddinott, Alun (b. 1929 – d. 2008)
Hodgkinson, Tim (b. 1949)
Hodkinson, Juliana (b. 1971) (UK–Denmark)
Holloway, Robin (b. 1943)
Holman, Derek (b. 1931 – d. 2019) (UK–Canada)
Holt, Simon (b. 1958)
Horne, David (b. 1970)
Hough, Sir Stephen (b. 1961)
Howard, Emily (b. 1979)
Hoyland, Vic (b. 1945)
Hughes, Bernard (b. 1974)
Hugill, Andrew (b. 1957)
Hyde, Thomas (b. 1978)
Iddon, Martin (b. 1975)
Irvine, John (b. 1965)
Jack, Adrian (b. 1943)
Jackson, Gabriel (b. 1962)
Jackson, Sir Nicholas (b. 1934)
Jenkins, Sir Karl (b. 1944)
Jolliffe, Edmund (b. 1976)
Jones, Patrick John (b. 1989)
Joubert, John (b. 1927 – d. 2019) (South Africa–UK)
Kaner, Matthew (b. 1986)
Keeley, Rob (b. 1960)
Keeling, Andrew (b. 1955)
Keenan, Paul (b. 1956 – d. 2001)
Kefala-Kerr, John (b. 1958)
Kendall, Hannah (b. 1984)
Ker, Dorothy (b. 1965) (New Zealand–UK)
Knussen, Oliver (b. 1952 – d. 2018)
Lack, Graham (b. 1954) (UK–Germany)
Ladd, Andrew M. (b. 1960)
Lam, Fung (b. 1979) (China–UK)
Lancaster, David (b. 1960)
Lane, Liz (b. 1964)
Langer, Elena (b. 1974) (Russia–UK)
Leach, Hazel (b. 1956) (UK–The Netherlands)
Lee, Joanna (b. 1982)
Leedham, Christopher (b. 1981)
LeFanu, Nicola (b. 1947)
Lely, John (b. 1976)
Lesser, David (b. 1966)*
L'Estrange, Alexander (b. 1974)
Lewis, Andrew (b. 1963)
Lewis, Luke (b. 1988)
Lewiston Sharpe, David (b. 1976)
Lipkin, Malcolm (b. 1932 – d. 2017)
Lloyd, Jonathan (b. 1948)
Lloyd-Howells, David (b. 1942)
López Figueroa, Sergio (b. 1966) (Spain–UK)
Luff, Enid (b. 1935)
Lumsdaine, David (b. 1931) (Australia–UK)
MacDonald, Alistair (b. 1962)
MacMillan, Sir James (b. 1959)
MacRae, Stuart (b. 1976)
Malone, Kevin (b. 1967) (USA–UK)
Maric, Dave (b. 1970)
Marsh, Roger (b. 1949)
Martin, Phillip Neil (b. 1979)
Martland, Steve (b. 1954 – d. 2013)
Mason, Benedict (b. 1954) (UK–Germany)
Mason, Christian (b. 1984)
Matheson, Iain (b. 1956)
Matthews, Colin (b. 1946)*
Matthews, David (b. 1943)*
Matthews, Kaffe (b. 1961)
Maw, Nicholas (b. 1935 – d. 2009) (UK–USA)
Mawby, Colin (b. 1936 – d. 2019) (UK–Ireland)
McBirnie, Andrew (b. 1971)
McBride, Nigel (b. 1990)
McBurney, Gerard (b. 1954)*
McCabe, John (b. 1939 – d. 2015)
McCarthy, James (b. 1979)
McDowall, Cecilia (b. 1951)
McGuire, Edward (b. 1948)
McLeod, John (b. 1934 – d. 2022)
McNeff, Stephen (b. 1951)
Mealor, Paul (b. 1975)
Meredith, Anna (b. 1978)
Metcalf, John (b. 1946) (UK–Canada)
Milner, Anthony (b. 1925 – d. 2002)
Mitchell-Davidson, Paul (b. 1946)
Molitor, Claudia (b. 1974) (Germany–UK)
Montague, Stephen (b. 1943) (USA–UK)*
Moody, Howard (b. 1964)
Moody, Ivan (b. 1964) (UK–Portugal)
Motomatsu, Noriko (b. 1977) (Japan–UK)
Musgrave, Thea (b. 1928) (UK–USA)
Nash, Peter Paul (b. 1950)
Nelson, Peter (b. 1951)
Nesbit, Edward (b. 1986)
Newland, Paul (b. 1966)
Newman, Chris (b. 1958) (UK–Germany)
Nicholson, George (b. 1949)*
Nicolson, Alasdair (b. 1961)
Ní Ríain, Ailís (b. 1974) (Ireland–UK)
Northcott, Bayan (b. 1940 – d. 2022)
Nunn, Patrick (b. 1969)
Nye, Richard (b. 1967)
Nyman, Michael (b. 1944)
Olive, Vivienne (b. 1950) (UK–Germany)
O'Regan, Tarik (b. 1978) (UK–USA)
Orton, Richard (b. 1940 – d. 2013)
Osborne, Nigel (b. 1948)
Osborne, Tony (b. 1947 – d. 2019)
Painter, Christopher (b. 1962)
Palmer, John (b. 1959)
Pankhurst, Lucy (b. 1981)
Panufnik, Roxanna (b. 1968)
Paredes, Hilda (b. 1957) (Mexico–UK)
Parker, C. S. L. (b. 1961) (UK–Ireland)
Parkinson, Tim (b. 1973)
Patterson, Paul (b. 1947)
Payne, Anthony (b. 1936 – d. 2021)
Pehkonen, Elis (b. 1942)
Peyton Jones, Jeremy (b. 1955 – d. 2021)
Phelps, Dan (b. 1981)
Phibbs, Joseph (b. 1974)
Phillips, Sheena (b. 1958)
Pickard, John (b. 1963)
Pinnock, Naomi (b. 1979)
Piper, Charlie (b. 1982)
Pitkin, Jonathan (b. 1978)*
Pitts, Antony (b. 1969)
Plowman, Lynne (b. 1969)
Pocknee, David (b. 1986)
Pook, Jocelyn (b. 1960)
Poole, Geoffrey (b. 1949)
Poppy, Andrew (b. 1954)
Pott, Francis (b. 1957)
Pounds, Adam (b. 1954)
Powers, Anthony (b. 1953)
Prior, Richard (b. 1966)
Pritchard, Alwynne (b. 1968)
Pritchard, Gwyn (b. 1948)
Prokofiev, Gabriel (b. 1975)
Puw, Guto (b. 1971)
Rands, Bernard (b. 1934) (UK–USA)
Redgate, Roger (b. 1958)
Redhead, Lauren (b. 1980s)
Reynolds, Peter (b. 1958 – d. 2016)
Rhys, John Marlow (b. 1935 – d. 2011)
Roberts, Jeremy Dale (b. 1934 – d. 2017)
Roberts, Mark (b. 1977)
Rodger, Daniel (b. 1965)
Rodgers, Georgia (b. 1985)
Rodgers, Sarah (b. 1953)
Ross, Charles (b. 1965) (UK–Iceland)
Rowan, Matthew (b. 1979)
Roxburgh, Edwin (b. 1937)
Runswick, Daryl (b. 1946)
Rusconi, Roberto David (b. 1972) (Italy–UK)
Rushton, Edward (b. 1972)
Rutter, John (b. 1945)
Sackman, Nicholas (b. 1950)
Sainsbury, Lionel (b. 1958)
Salem, Sam (b. 1982)
Samuel, Rhian (b. 1944)
Saunders, James (b. 1972)
Saunders, Rebecca (b. 1967) (UK–Germany)
Savaskan, Sinan (b. 1954)
Sawer, David (b. 1961)
Saxton, Robert (b. 1953)
Scheuregger, Martin (b. 1988)
Schurmann, Gerard (b. 1928 – d. 2020) (The Netherlands–UK)
Scott, Andy (b. 1966)
Searle, Oliver (b. 1977)
Senator, Ronald (b. 1926 – d. 2015)
Sergeant, Matthew (b. 1984)
Setchell, Martin (b. 1949) (UK–New Zealand)
Shlomowitz, Matthew (b. 1975) (Australia–UK)
Shoot, Vladislav (b. 1941 – d. 2022) (Russia–UK)*
Shortis, Carol (b. 1960) (UK–New Zealand)
Shrapnel, Hugh (b. 1947)
Sierra, Arlene Elizabeth (b. 1970) (USA–UK)
Sigal, Rodrigo (b. 1971) (Mexico–UK)
Simaku, Thomas (b. 1958) (Albania–UK)
Simpson, Mark (b. 1988)
Skempton, Howard (b. 1947)
Smalley, Roger (b. 1943 – d. 2015) (UK–Australia)
Smirnov, Dmitri N. (b. 1948 – d. 2020) (Russia–UK)
Smith, Alan (b. 1962)
Sohal, Naresh (b. 1939 – d. 2018) (India–UK)
Soler, Blai (b. 1977) (Spain–UK)
Speak, Jeroen (b. 1969) (New Zealand–UK)
Spencer, Michael (b. 1975)
Spratt, Alasdair (b. 1981)
Stanhope, David (b. 1952) (UK–Australia)
Steadman, Robert (b. 1965)
Stephen, John (b. 1972)
Steptoe, Roger (b. 1953) (UK–France)
Stevenson, Ronald (b. 1928 – d. 2015)
Stollery, Pete (b. 1960)*
Stout, Alastair (b. 1975)
Stringer, John (b. 1967)
Strutt, Clive (b. 1942)*
Suckling, Martin (b. 1981)
Swayne, Giles (b. 1946)
Tabakova, Dobrinka (b. 1980) (Bulgaria–UK)
Tahourdin, Peter (b. 1928 – d. 2009) (UK–Australia)
Tajuddin, Tazul Izan (b. 1969) (Malaysia–UK)*
Talbot, Joby (b. 1971)
Tann, Hilary (b. 1947) (UK–USA)
Tavener, Sir John (b. 1944 – d. 2013)
Taylor, Matthew (b. 1964)
Thompson, Bill (b. 1970) (USA–UK)
Thurlow, Jeremy (b. 1976)
Todd, Will (b. 1970)
Toovey, Andrew (b. 1962)
Tovey, Bramwell (b. 1953 – d. 2022)
Tučapský, Antonín (b. 1928 – d. 2014) (Czech Republic–UK)
Turnage, Mark-Anthony (b. 1960)
Tuulikki, Hanna (b. 1982)
Usui, Shiori (b. 1981) (Japan–UK)
Venables, Ian (b. 1955)
Venables, Philip (b. 1979)
Viñao, Alejandro (b. 1951) (Argentina–UK)
Vine, Ian (b. 1974)
Vir, Param (b. 1952) (India–UK)
Vores, Andy (b. 1956) (UK–USA)
Vriend, Jan (b. 1938) (The Netherlands–UK)
Walker, Robert (b. 1946)
Wallen, Errollyn (b. 1958)
Waterhouse, Graham (b. 1962) (UK–Germany)
Watkins, Huw (b. 1976)
Webber, John (b. 1949) (UK–USA)
Weeks, James (b. 1978)
Weir, Judith (b. 1954)
Whettam, Graham (b. 1927 – d. 2007)
Whiteside, Matthew (b. 1988)
Whitty, Paul (b. 1970)
Wickham-Smith, Simon (b. 1968)
Wiegold, Peter (b. 1949)
Wigglesworth, Ryan (b. 1979)
Wilby, Philip (b. 1949)
Wilkins, Margaret Lucy (b. 1939)*
Willcock, Ian (b. 1959)
Williams, Adrian (b. 1956)
Williams, Tom (b. 1956)
Williamson, Malcolm (b. 1931 – d. 2003) (Australia–UK)
Wilson, Ian (b. 1964)
Wilson, Scott (b. 1969) (Canada–UK)
Wilson, Thomas (b. 1927 – d. 2001)
Winters, Elizabeth (b. 1979)
Wise, Andrew (b. 1957) (UK–Belgium)
Wishart, Stevie (b. 1959)
Wishart, Trevor (b. 1946)
Wolters, Michael (b. 1971) (Germany–UK)
Wood, Hugh (b. 1932 – d. 2021)
Wood, James (b. 1953)
Woolrich, John (b. 1954)
Wright, Christopher (b. 1954)
Yeats, Marc (b. 1962)
Yiu, Raymond (b. 1973) (China–UK)
Young, John (b. 1962) (New Zealand–UK)
Young, Reynaldo (b. 1966) (Uruguay–UK)
Zaldua, Alistair (b. 1970)

(*) = profile written by Dan Albertson.

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