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page 120th-century American male composers
Louis Armstrong
American jazz musician, trumpeter and singer (1901–1971)
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer (1882–1971)

Clint Eastwood
Clinton Eastwood Jr. is an American actor, filmmaker and musician. After achieving success in the Western TV series Rawhide, Eastwood rose to international fame with his role as the "Man with No Name" in Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy of spaghetti Westerns during the mid-1960s and as antihero cop Harry Callahan in the five Dirty Harry films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, among others, have made Eastwood an enduring cultural icon of masculinity. Elected in 1986, Eastwood served for two years as the mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.

Frank Zappa
American musician (1940–1993)
Ezra Pound
American poet and critic (1885–1972)
Ray Charles
American singer, pianist and songwriter (1930–2004)
James Brown
American musician (1933–2006)
Miles Davis
American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (1926–1991)
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)

Duke Ellington
American jazz pianist and composer (1899–1974)
Arnold Schoenberg
Austrian-Jewish American composer (1874-1951)
George Gershwin
American composer and pianist (1898–1937)
Leonard Bernstein
American conductor and composer (1918–1990)
Marvin Gaye
American R&B and soul singer (1939–1984)

John Williams
American composer and conductor (born 1932)
Charlie Parker
American jazz saxophonist (1920–1955)
John Cage
American avant-garde composer (1912-1992)
Robert Mitchum
American actor (1917–1997)
Fred Rogers
American television personality (1928–2003)
Quincy Jones
American record producer and composer (1933–2024)
John Coltrane
American jazz saxophonist (1926–1967)
Irving Berlin
American composer and lyricist (1888–1989)
Paul Simon
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
J. J. Abrams
American filmmaker (1966-)
Billy Joel
American singer, songwriter, and pianist (born 1949)
Dizzy Gillespie
American jazz trumpeter (1917–1993)
Tom Waits
American singer-songwriter and actor (born 1949)
James Horner
American film composer and conductor (1953-2015)
Glenn Miller
American band leader, arranger, and composer (1904–1944)
Jerry Lee Lewis
American rock 'n' roll musician (1935–2022)
Philip Glass
American composer (born 1937)
Scott Joplin
American composer, musician, pianist (1867/68-1917)
Aaron Copland
American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor (1900-1990)
Vladimir Horowitz
Russian and American pianist (1903–1989)
Thelonious Monk
American jazz pianist and composer (1917–1982)
Herbie Hancock
American jazz pianist and composer (born 1940)
John Carpenter
American filmmaker, composer and actor (born 1948)
Danny Elfman
American composer and musician (born 1953)
Henry Mancini
American film composer (1924–1994)
Jerry Goldsmith
American film composer (1929–2004)
Chick Corea
American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer (1941-2021)
Lionel Barrymore
American actor, director, screenwriter (1878–1954)
Cole Porter
American composer and songwriter (1891–1964)
Jackie Gleason
American comedian and actor (1916–1987)
Count Basie
American jazz musician and composer (1904–1984)
Joe Satriani
American guitarist
Ornette Coleman
American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer (1930–2015)
Burt Bacharach
American pianist, composer, producer (1928–2023)
Alan Silvestri
American composer, conductor, orchestrator and music producer
Bill Evans
American jazz pianist (1929–1980)
Kurt Weill
German composer (1900–1950)

Samuel Barber
American composer (1910-1981)
Charles Ives
American modernist composer (1874–1954)
James Newton Howard
American composer and music producer (born 1951)
Randy Newman
American singer-songwriter and pianist
Charles Mingus
American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader (1922–1979)
Richard Rodgers
American composer of songs and Broadway musicals (1902–1979)
Wynton Marsalis
American jazz musician and educator

Bohuslav Martinů
Czech composer (1890–1959)

John Philip Sousa
Luso-American conductor and composer (1854–1932)