WAdrián Patiño Carpio was a prominent Bolivian military musician, band director, and music composer. Patiño was responsible for incorporate Bolivian popular folk tradition in the Bolivian Army.
WMajor General Yusif Akhundzade is a prestigious Azerbaijani military conductor and director. Akhundzade is the current Senior Military Director of the Military Band Service of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan. He also serves concurrently as the director of the Central Band of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan, a position he has held since 1992.
WSpencer John Bent, VC, MM was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
WFriedrich Wilhelm Anton Brase, known as Fritz Brase, was a German military bandmaster, conductor, and composer who was mainly active in Dublin, Ireland, as leader of the first Army School of Music in the Irish Free State.
WColonel Volodymyr Anatolievich Dashkovsky also known as Vladimir Dashkovsky is a Ukrainian military conductor and composer who serves as the Senior Military Director of the Military Music Department of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (MMD-GSAFU) based in Kyiv.
WJulius Ernest Wilhelm Fučík was a Czech composer and conductor of military bands. He became a prolific composer, with over 400 marches, polkas, and waltzes to his name. As most of his work was for military bands, he is sometimes known as the "Bohemian Sousa".
WKurt Gudewill was a German musicologist and University lecturer. From 1952 to 1976 he was professor at the musicological institute of the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel. He rendered outstanding services to Heinrich Schütz and Lied research.
WHayk Gyolchanyan is an Armenian-American record producer, musician, singer and songwriter. He is best known as the founder of the armenian prog-rock band IF as well as a record producer and the founder of RedPoint Records. During his career he worked with many representatives of Armenian and Russian show business as a composer, session musician and record producer. After moving to New York City Gyolchanyan started his solo career in United States with his first single Melon Fields released on February 20, 2020.
WBorazan İsmail Çavuş (1893–1972) was a Turkish war hero from Balıkesir. He is known for playing the Bugle which played a part when he, as a volunteer, defended the city of Burhaniye against Greek forces on the western front of the Turkish War of Independence, also known as the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922). He played an instrumental part in the defense of the coastal town against a large retreating Greek occupational force that was burning and destroying as they retreated.
WIon Ivanovici was a Romanian military band leader and composer of Banat Serbian origin, best remembered today for his waltz Waves of the Danube.
WAlfredo Javaloyes López was a Spanish musician. His best known work is the military march El Abanico, composed in the year 1910.
WBert Kaempfert was a German orchestra leader, multi-instrumentalist, music producer, arranger, and composer. He made easy listening and jazz-oriented records and wrote the music for a number of well-known songs, including "Strangers in the Night" and "Moon Over Naples".
WManolis Kalomiris was a Greek classical composer. He was the founder of the Greek National School of Music.
WSergey Nikolaevich Kostiuchenko is a Belarusian military conductor. He is the former Chief Director of the Military Band Service of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus, holding this post from 2008-2019. At 11 in the band service was the second longest serving director of the bands after Alexander Fedorov who served for 14 years.
WAlfred Jean-Baptiste Lemaire was a French military musician and composer who went to Iran in 1868, during the reign of King Nasser-al-Din Shah to train the staff of the music department of Dar ul-Funun. He was the composer of the first Iranian national anthem.
WFerdinand Friedrich Hermann Nielebock, known as Herms Niel, was a German composer of military songs and marches.
WJames Benton Parsons was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He was the first African American to serve as a U.S. district judge in a U.S. district court.
WJohann Gottfried Piefke was a German band leader, (Kapellmeister) and composer of military music.
WColonel Armen Karleni Poghosyan is a Soviet-educated Armenian military musician. Since 16 February 2009, he has been the Senior Military Director of the Band of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Armenia and concurrently the commander of the Military Band Division of the General Staff. He is also a teacher at the Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan.
WSam Hjalmar Rydberg was a Swedish composer.
WRain Aladdin oglu Sultanov is an Azerbaijani jazz saxophonist and Honorary Artist of Azerbaijan.
WAntoon Verschoot,, Order of the Crown (Belgium) was a Belgian firefighter and bugler who played the last post at the Menin Gate for many years.