Below is a broad and fairly exhaustive list of important composers connected with Indian devotional music and bhakti traditions grouped by tradition/region, which will also help organize categories on BhajanBhakthi.com.

This list focuses on bhajan, kriti, kirtan, abhang, and devotional poetry composers rather than purely classical instrumental composers.

Major Carnatic Composer–Saints

These are central to South Indian devotional music.

  • Tyagaraja
  • Muthuswami Dikshitar
  • Syama Sastri

Other Carnatic devotional composers

  • Annamacharya
  • Purandara Dasa
  • Kanaka Dasa
  • Bhadrachala Ramadasu
  • Narayana Teertha
  • Oottukkadu Venkata Kavi
  • Koteeswara Iyer
  • Papanasam Sivan
  • Ambujam Krishna
  • Gopalakrishna Bharati
  • Arunachala Kavi
  • Mysore Vasudevacharya
  • Swati Tirunal
  • Veena Kuppayyar
  • Patnam Subramania Iyer
  • Subbaraya Sastri
  • Harikesanallur Muthiah Bhagavatar
  • Lalgudi Jayaraman

North Indian Bhakti Poets / Bhajan Composers

Very important for Hindi bhajans.

  • Tulsidas
  • Surdas
  • Mirabai
  • Kabir
  • Ravidas
  • Namdev
  • Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
  • Vallabhacharya
  • Narsinh Mehta
  • Guru Nanak

Marathi Abhang Composers

Very rich bhakti tradition.

  • Tukaram
  • Eknath
  • Janabai
  • Chokhamela
  • Gora Kumbhar

Bengali Bhakti Composers

Important in kirtan traditions.

  • Narottama Dasa Thakur
  • Vidyapati
  • Chandidas
  • Atulprasad Sen

Gujarati Devotional Composers

  • Narsinh Mehta
  • Dayaram
  • Premanand Bhatt

Tamil Bhakti Saints (Tevaram / Divya Prabandham)

These are extremely important for devotional literature.

Shaiva Nayanmars

  • Appar
  • Sambandar
  • Sundarar
  • Manikkavacakar

Vaishnava Alvars

  • Andal
  • Nammalvar
  • Periyalvar
  • Kulasekhara Alvar
  • Tirumangai Alvar

Kerala Devotional Composers

  • Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri
  • Poonthanam Namboothiri
  • Irayimman Thampi

Other Important Bhakti Composers

  • Jayadeva
  • Bilvamangala Thakura
  • Vedanta Desika
  • Adi Shankaracharya
  • Sadashiva Brahmendra

Modern Devotional Composers

You may also include modern ones:

  • Bhaktivinoda Thakur
  • A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  • Anup Jalota

How This Helps Your Blog

For BhajanBhakthi.com you could create composer pages like:

Example:

  • Tyagaraja Compositions
  • Purandara Dasa Bhajans
  • Meera Bhajans
  • Tukaram Abhangs

Each composer page can link to many song posts, which is very good for SEO.