Les Paul
Les Paul was a virtuoso guitarist and restless studio inventor who built much of the technology of modern popular music almost single-handedly -- multitrack overdubbing, sound-on-sound recording, and (with Gibson) the solid-body electric guitar that bears his name. Recording with his wife Mary Ford in the early 1950s, he layered take after take of his own guitar into dense, effects-laden pop hits like "How High the Moon," turning the recording studio itself into an instrument years before anyone else thought to.
Paul frequently named Django Reinhardt as the guitarist who most amazed him, and Reinhardt's harmonically adventurous, virtuosic single-note soloing with the Quintette du Hot Club de France set a technical bar Paul spent his career chasing on the instrument, even as he pushed the sound itself somewhere Reinhardt's acoustic gypsy-jazz never went. NOTE: sources document only this one clearly-named guitar influence on Paul; fewer than three influences reflects the source record, not an incomplete search.
listen forUnderneath all the multi-tracked studio trickery on "Lover (When You're Near Me)," the actual guitar lines are fast, harmonically sophisticated swing-jazz runs in the same lineage as Reinhardt's soloing on "Minor Swing" -- just multiplied eight times over and sped up.