अबुल हसन अमीर ख़ुसरु चौदहवीं सदी के आसपास दिल्ली के पास रहने वाले एक प्रमुख कवि (शायर), गायक और संगीतकार थे। खुसरो को हिन्दुस्तानी खड़ीबोली का पहला लोकप्रिय कवि माना जाता है।किसके द्वारा? वे अपनी पहेलियों और मुकरियों के लिए जाने जाते हैं। सबसे पहले उन्हीं ने अपनी भाषा को हिन्दवी का उल्लेख किया था। वे फारसी के कवि भी थे। उनको दिल्ली सल्तनत का आश्रय मिला हुआ था। उनके ग्रंथो की सूची लम्बी है। साथ ही इनका इतिहास स्रोत रूप में महत्त्व है।

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Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan is an Indian classical singer and teacher from the Kirana musical style. As the grandson of Abdul Karim Khan, a founder of the Kirana style, he is a descendant of the gharana's family lineage. He was educated by his father, sarangi player Shakoor Khan.

Mashkoor Ali Khan performs as an A-grade artist with All India Radio, and is on the faculty of the ITC Sangeet Research Academy, a prominent institution of Indian Classical Music, as their senior teacher of the Kirana style.

Ustad Nissar Hussain Khan (1909–93) was an Indian classical vocalist from the Rampur-Sahaswan gharana. He was a disciple and son of Fida Hussain Khan and after a long and illustrious career was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1971 He was the court musician of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III at Baroda and was featured extensively on All India Radio. He was a specialist in Tarana. His most famous disciples are Ghulam Mustafa Khan and Rashid Khan.

Sumati Mutatkar (10 September 1916 – 28 February 2007) was an Indian classical music vocalist and musicologist from the Agra gharana of Hindustani classical music, and a Professor of Department of Music in University of Delhi.

She was awarded the highest award of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama, for lifetime achievement, the 1979 Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship[2] and the Padma Shri in 1999, by Government of India.She was also awarded the Kalidas Samman by the Government of Madhya Pradesh in 2001-2002.

Moinuddin Khan is a veteran Indian classical instrumentalist and vocalist, who plays sarangi. Based in Jaipur, he belongs to the "Jaipur gharana" of Hindustani classical music. Renowned for dignified method of presenting ASTHAI-ALAAP-ANTRA in Vilambit and DRUT with LAYAKARI has an extreme control over TAN - GAMAKplaying.

Khan has performed his music for All India Radio, Jaipur, in solo programmes.

In 2014, the Government of India conferred upon him its fourth-highest civilian award the Padma Shr