Interesting, I see most of you mention prominent musicians, mostly older generation. Many of these guys created and performed some really good music, but here's a thing - majority if not all of them play in a context of a band. I started learning my guitar well within the "Youtube generation" and before I even bought my first one I watched a bunch of videos and saw these guys playing arrangements of well known songs on their acoustic guitars with solo, rhythm, bass - all at the same time, they called it "fingerstyle" and it was awesome. From that moment on I decided I'm gonna play fingerstyle.
So from my pragmatic perspective my influencers are
Igor Presnyakov,
Kelly Valleau,
Adam Rafferty,
Dave Niskin