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well, I'd say TO THE VERY LEAST Django Reinhardt and Paco de Lucia. Now, if you mean only rock and only electrical guitar, it depends on many factors. For good taste, I'd include "Mr. Good Taste", David Gilmour. For innovation, Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore and Glenn Branca. For sheer feeling, George Harrison. For taking guitar to another level, Kevin Shields. For taking guitar to (another) another level, Blixa Bargeld. For technical abilities (and extreme boredom) Al Di Meola and Pat Metheny. Hell, add any jazz player. For talent and innovation, Robert Fripp and Andy Summers
Anyway, on technical abilities, taste and extreme innovation on guitar limits, none in your list gets to the first 2 I mentioned, it's like Django, Paco De Lucia, then a crew of Tomatito and other spanish and classical guitar players, a big empty gap and then the ones in your list, although I like to listen Gilmour, Ranaldo and Harrison rather than Reinhardt and De Lucia, but man, objectively they're a whole different league, any crafty guitarist would tell you that.
So, with all these considerations, my "guitarist who I like despite other people's subjectiveness" list (in no special order):
Neil Young (until some other guitar player makes an amazing solo with just 1 note), Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore, Gilmour, Van Halen, Hendrix, Dave Navarro, Frank Black/Joey Santiago, Geoge Harrison, The Edge, Zoot Horn Rollo, Ali Farka Toure
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