,
Nobel laureate in Literature in 1932 •
Claudio Arrau (1903-1991), Chilean and American pianist •
Claudia Barainsky, soprano •
Else Berg (1877–1942), German-born Dutch painter •
Esther Berlin-Joel (1895–1972), German-born Israeli painter and graphic designer •
F. W. Bernstein (1938–2018), poet, cartoonist, satirist and academic •
Norbert Bisky, painter •
Jacob Brandenburg (1899-1981), Polish-born Israeli sculptor •
Guy Braunstein (born 1971), Israeli-American composer, conductor, and classical violinist •
Antonia Brico, pianist and conductor •
Kai Bumann (1961–2022), conductor • Michael Chapman, artist •
Antonio Piedade da Cruz, (1895–1982) Indian painter and sculptor •
Daniela Comani, painter •
Alexander Davidis, television director •
Gunter Demnig (born 1947), artist •
Marie Fillunger, opera singer •
Caroline Fischer, pianist •
Bruno Flierl, architect and city planner •
Eduard Franck •
Regina Frank, textile artist •
Catherine Gayer, coloratura soprano •
Ria Ginster, soprano •
Leopold Godowsky, pianist •
Berthold Goldschmidt (1903–1996), composer •
Günter Grass, sculptor, 1999
Nobel Prize in Literature •
Ilse Häfner-Mode (1902-1973), artist •
Burkhard Held, painter •
Carla Henius, mezzo-soprano •
Philip A. Herfort, violinist, orchestra leader •
Arnulf Herrmann, composer •
Li Hua, artist •
Hanoch Jacoby (1909–1990), Israeli composer and viola player •
Ali Kaaf, artist •
David Kaplan (born 1983), American piano soloist and chamber musician •
Leo Kestenberg (1882–1962). German-Israeli classical pianist, music educator, and cultural politician •
Lilli Kuschel, artist, filmmaker •
Ingo Kühl, painter, sculptor and architect •
Christian Leden, ethno-musicologist; composer •
Kim Yusob, South-Korean painter •
Otto Kinkeldey, (1878–1966), musicologist, academic music library pioneer •
Otto Klemperer, conductor •
Günter Kochan (1930–2009), composer •
Uwe Kröger, actor, singer •
Felicitas Kukuck, composer •
Josephine Meckseper, artist •
Una H. Moehrke, painter •
Moritz Moszkowski, German-Polish pianist, composer •
Isabel Mundry, composer •
Adolfo Odnoposoff, cellist •
Karl Oppermann, painter •
Rudolph Polk, violinist •
Enno Poppe, composer •
Hildegard Quiel, composer •
Max Raabe artist •
Hermann Rosendorff, conductor, composer •
SEO, artist •
Herbert Schachtschneider (1919–2008), operatic tenor •
Gabriel and Maxim Shamir, (previously Scheftelovich), early 1930s, Latvian-Israeli graphic artists •
Christine Schäfer, soprano •
Karl Ulrich Schnabel (1909–2001), Austrian pianist •
Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951), Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher, and writer •
Martina Schumacher, painter •
Maya Shenfeld, Jerusalem-born composer and musician •
Paul Gutama Soegijo, composer and musician •
Kathrin Sonntag, artist •
Thomas Spiegelhalter, academic •
Agnes Stavenhagen, soprano •
Bertha Tideman-Wijers, composer •
Sarah Traubel, soprano •
Richard Aaker Trythall, pianist, composer •
Agnes Tschetschulin, composer, violinist •
Christa Frieda Vogel, photographer •
Jorinde Voigt, artist •
Ignatz Waghalter, composer, conductor •
Bruno Walter (born Bruno Schlesinger), conductor •
Kurt Weill, German-born American composer •
Stefan Wolpe (1902–1972), German-born American composer. •
Wang Xiaosong, artist •
Isang Yun (1917-1995), composer ==Notable teachers==