Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Bobby Fischer | Ivan Turgenev | Ivan Caryll | Ivan Lendl | Ivan Vazov | Ivan the Terrible | Ivan Shapovalov | Iván Rodríguez | Ivan Reitman | Ivan Pavlov | Ivan Lins | Hurricane Ivan | Jenna Fischer | Julia Fischer | Ivan Krylov | Ivan Franko | Urs Fischer | Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach | Ivan Tors | Ivan Basso | Ivan Vladislavic | Ivan Neville | Ivan Meštrović | Hermann Emil Fischer | Gustav Fischer | Fischer | Joschka Fischer | Ivan Varichev | Ivan Sergei |
His many conducting students included Leonid Nikolaev, Paul Angerer, Claudio Abbado, Iván Fischer, Jesús López-Cobos, Zubin Mehta, Gustav Meier, Miltiades Caridis, Alexander Alexeev, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Brian Jackson, Alfred Prinz, Bryan Fairfax and Albert Rosen.
Past principal conductors at the company have included André Cluytens, John Eliot Gardiner, Kent Nagano, Louis Langrée, and Iván Fischer.