Musicians/Composers
- Maksym Berezovsky - Known for religious music
- Dmytro Bortniansky - Religious music.
- Bill Evans
- Alexander Frey - Conductor, pianist, organist and composer, was baptized in the Greek Orthodox church, but is also a practicing Episcopalian.
- David Gahan - English lead singer for Depeche Mode, converted to Greek Orthodox Christianity to marry his current wife Jennifer.
- Constance Geanakoplos, Concert pianist
- Chris Hillman - original member of The Byrds
- Lena Katina - Member of Russian music group t.A.T.u.
- Boris Ledkovsky - Russian-American composer of Church music
- Bob Marley - was baptized by the Archbishop of the Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Church in Kingston, Jamaica, on November 4, 1980 Bob Marley#Religion
- George Michael - celebrity pop singer, a Greek-Cypriote.
- Dimitris Mitropoulos - Conductor, pianist and composer. Music Director of the New York Philharmonic and the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra.
- Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac - one of the most famous Serbian composers and music educators of the nineteenth century.
- Lauryn Hill - Baptized into the Ethiopian Orthodox Church with the name "Fikerte Maryam"
- Inva Mula - Albanian Orthodox, famous opera singer.
- Arvo Pärt - known for religious music, convert from Lutheranism
- Tose Proeski - Macedonian pop singer
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Possibly atheist after some point, but did Russian Orthodox church music.
- Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Mstislav Rostropovich - Conductor, National Symphony, Cellist
- Thomas Simaku - Albanian Orthodox, famous composer.
- Igor Stravinsky - Left the faith from 1900 to 1926, after rejoining he did Symphony of Psalms.
- John Tavener - Converted to Orthodoxy, and much of his music is influenced by that. He is now often said to be Universalist or Perrenialist, although he himself says that he remains Orthodox.
- Julia Volkova Member of Russian music group t.A.T.u.
- Stephen M. Wolownik - Church music early on
- Steven Delopoulos - Folk singer/songwriter, lead singer for Burlap to Cashmere
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - a Russian composer of the Romantic era. His wide ranging output includes symphonies, operas, ballets, instrumental and chamber music and songs.
- Sasha Leonov - A Russian Australian singer/songwriter who has released two albums: Accolades for Days of Sunshine and Remnants of Tomorrow.
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