List of Famous people named Modest

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five". He was an innovator of Russian music in the Romantic period. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music.

Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian dramatist, opera librettist and translator.

Modest Cuixart i Tàpies was a Catalan painter. He is, along with poet Joan Brossa and painters Joan Ponç, his cousin Antoni Tàpies and Joan-Josep Tharrats, the founder of surrealist et dada review Dau al Set in 1948.

Modest Altschuler was a cellist, orchestral conductor, and composer.

Modest Urgell i Inglada, also known by the nickname Katúfol was a Spanish landscape painter and comic playwright. He used his nickname for cartoons and illustrations.