Holdsworthian guitarists

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While it is known Holdsworth does not like guitarists who imitate elements of his playing, e.g the legato, the fast complexs runs, the tangential solos at right angles to a tune's main theme (e.g. delve into the  comments found in the liner notes of Yngwie Malmsteen's Inspiration* album), etc., a number do it. (And I admit I like a lot of these recordings).  However, I think adopting/adapting Holdsworth's style indicates a hard and challenging point to start a (professional) musical career - and how many other new pro guitarists borrow heavily from their elders and betters?

We can pick guitarists who have gone through a brief spell of Holdsworthian playing and moved on - Scott McGill  during interview admitted Holdsworth's influence in his early playing e.g. with Finneus Gauge, but clearly 20 years on is his own man. Alex Machacek seemed mortified by reviewers suggesting his debut  album Featuring Ourselves, to be a sort of 80's Mothers with Holdsworth as lead guitarist, that his subsequent albums have been free of the obvious. Other guitarists have the occasional Holdsworthian moments but also have drawn on a broader range of influences and along with their own originality, e.g. Nguyen Le or Susan Reinert. Do others find with the pairing of Holdsworth and Frank Gambale on MPV's Truth In The Shredding, that it was difficut to tell the guitarists apart - when Gambale  has a fairly distinct sound on his own recordings? And I may go as far as including It Bites' Francis Dunnery in this listing, who in a UK specialist guitarist magazine at the end of the 80's, discussed his love of Holdsworth and Genesis - which goes a little way to my then thinking It Bites has a small percentage of UK and a larger percentage of Gabriel period Genesis in their albums. And then those who have stuck being Holdsworthian through several albums and those who have been limited to one album only (e.g. Jacque Le Greca, Elliot Freedman). Then there is that odd 80's period of Bill Connors' career with three solo albums that had him accused of being Holdsworthian - whilst ignoring the originality of  his earlier RTF period???

So following on from that preamble,some questions/requests for your input:
1. Which guitarists do you think have a distinct voice (and you may like to add which subsequent guitarists have "borrowed")?  I would say McLaughlin (although Larry Coryell has claimed to have added to McLaughlin education in the early 70's) , Holdsworth, Metheny, Montgomery, Jim Hall, Les Paul, Coryell.

2. Which Holdsworthian guitarists and their recordings would you recommend?

*On which  Malmsteen at least tackled UK's In The Dead Of Night and avoided being Holdsworthian. 