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Andrew Poppy (b. Kent, England, May 29, 1954) is a British composer, pianist, and music producer.

From 1974 to 1979 he studied music at Royal Holloway College and Goldsmiths College University of London, studying piano with Susan Bradshaw and earning a B.M. degree in piano performance.

One of the least internationally known of British minimalist composers, Poppy was a founding member (in 1981) of The Lost Jockey, a large ensemble dedicated to the performance of new works by British composers composed in the style of such composers as Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and Louis Andriessen.

He contributed orchestral arrangements to Force The Hand of Chance, the first album by the group Psychic TV which was released on WEA Records in 1982. Poppy's subsequent arrangements have appeared on records by groups such as Erasure, The The, The House of Love, Strawberry Switchblade and Nitzer Ebb.

His first album The Beating of Wings was released on ZTT records in 1985.

A 3CD collection of Poppy's ZTT works entitled Andrew Poppy on Zang Tuum Tumb was released in 2005.

Poppy teaches composition at Trinity College of Music in Greenwich, London.

• Cadenza and 'Matters of Theory from The Lost Jockey (Les Disques du Crepuscule, 1982)
• Crude Din from The Lost Jockey (Battersea Records 12-inch disc)
• The Beating of Wings (1985, ZTT)
• Alphabed (1987, ZTT)
• Recordings (1992, Bitter and Twisted Records)
• Ophelia/Ophelia (1995, Impetus)
• Rude Bloom (1995, ArtGallery/Wotre Music)
• Time at Rest Devouring Its Secret (2000 Source Research Rcordings)
• Another Language (with Claudia Brücken ex. Propaganda singer) (2005, There (there))
• Andrew Poppy on Zang Tuum Tumb - comprises The Beating of Wings, Alphabed, Under the Sun (previously unlreleased third album for ZTT) plus bonus tracks (2005, ZTT)

• Emre (Dark Matter) (2000)

• Andrew Poppy official site