List of flautists

This is a list of flute players, organized alphabetically by the musical genre in which they are best known, and whose notability is established by reliable sources in other Wikipedia articles.



In the final section below, any appropriate External links should satisfy roughly the same criteria as this list, and should not be individual homepages, discussion groups, or social media sites.

Western Classical

 * Richard Adeney
 * Egidius Aerts
 * Robert Aitken
 * Wellington E. Alves
 * William Alwyn
 * John Amadio
 * Neville Amadio
 * Joachim Andersen
 * Claudi Arimany
 * Andrew Ashe
 * Nina Assimakopoulos
 * Johann Jacob Bach
 * Julius Baker
 * John Barcellona
 * Samuel Baron
 * Huáscar Barradas
 * Georges Barrère
 * Francesco Barsanti
 * Jeanne Baxtresser
 * Larry Beauregard
 * Michel Bellavance
 * William Bennett
 * Atarah Ben-Tovim
 * Henri Besozzi
 * Sharon Bezaly
 * Lisa Beznosiuk
 * Boris Bizjak
 * Frances Blaisdell
 * Andreas Blau
 * Michel Blavet
 * Vilém Blodek
 * Theobald Boehm – also inventor of predecessor of modern flute
 * François Borne
 * Denis Bouriakov
 * Adrian Brett
 * Giulio Briccialdi
 * Carlos Bruneel
 * Katherine Bryan
 * Ferdinand Büchner
 * Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin
 * Marisa Canales
 * Roland Cardon – alias Guy Rodenhof
 * Robert Cavally
 * Frédéric Chalon
 * Claire Chase
 * Laura Chislett
 * Jasmine Choi
 * Cesare Ciardi
 * Ian Clarke
 * Valerie Coleman
 * Albert Cooper – also flute maker and inventor of Cooper scale
 * David Davies
 * Michel Debost
 * Leonardo De Lorenzo
 * Jules Demersseman
 * Abbie de Quant
 * François Devienne
 * Franz Doppler
 * Karl Doppler
 * Béla Drahos
 * Mathieu Dufour
 * Friedrich Dülon
 * Paul Lustig Dunkel
 * Hilary du Pré
 * Elena Duran
 * Mario Duschenes
 * Doriot Anthony Dwyer
 * Alfred John Ellory
 * Timothy Essex
 * Pedro Eustache
 * Bülent Evcil
 * Andrew Findon
 * Thierry Fischer
 * Louis Fleury
 * Dieter Flury
 * John Fonville
 * Frederick the Great – Prussian king and avid amateur
 * John Frohling
 * Anton Bernhard Fürstenau
 * Kaspar Fürstenau
 * Moritz Fürstenau
 * Patrick Gallois
 * James Galway
 * Bianca Garcia
 * Giuseppe Gariboldi
 * Anna Garzuly
 * Philippe Gaubert
 * Severino Gazzelloni
 * Paul Génin
 * Jean-Claude Gérard
 * Tula Giannini
 * Richard Giese
 * Geoffrey Gilbert
 * Iwona Glinka
 * Friedrich Hartmann Graf
 * Peter-Lukas Graf
 * Irena Grafenauer
 * Uwe Grodd
 * Ørnulf Gulbransen
 * Nicholas Gunn
 * Ute Günther
 * Viviana Guzmán
 * Rházes Hernández-López
 * Gudrun Hinze
 * Katherine Hoover
 * Jacques-Martin Hotteterre
 * Luigi Hugues
 * Timothy Hutchins
 * Christopher Hyde-Smith
 * Gerald Jackson
 * Sébastian Jacot
 * André Jaunet
 * Jens Josef
 * Catherine Ransom Karoly
 * Dirk Keetbaas
 * Bettine Keyßer
 * Jeffrey Khaner
 * William Kincaid
 * Kristiyan Koev
 * Ernesto Köhler
 * Jadwiga Kotnowska
 * John C. Krell
 * Frederich Kuhlau
 * Barthold Kuijken
 * Kaspar Kummer
 * Michel de la Barre
 * Eric Lamb
 * Robert Langevin
 * Sidney Lanier
 * Maxence Larrieu
 * Nicholas Laucella
 * John Lemmone
 * Hans-Martin Linde
 * Nicola Lindsay
 * Diana López Moyal
 * Donato Lovreglio
 * Kathryn Lukas
 * Antoine Mahaut
 * Alain Marion
 * Jaime Martín
 * Marya Martin
 * Nicholas McGegan
 * Lorna McGhee
 * Demarre McGill
 * Gareth McLearnon
 * Victor McMahon
 * Susan Milan
 * Ulla Miilmann
 * Claude Monteux
 * Barbara Morgan – educator and former astronaut
 * Tadashi Mori
 * Gareth Morris
 * Louis Moyse
 * Marcel Moyse
 * Ulrich Müller-Doppler
 * Milan Munclinger
 * Reza Najfar
 * Ingrid Søfteland Neset
 * Charles Nicholson
 * Aurèle Nicolet
 * Thomas Nyfenger
 * Emmanuel Pahud
 * Eleonore Pameijer
 * Kathinka Pasveer
 * Maggi Payne
 * Philippe Rebille Philbert
 * Marina Piccinini
 * James Poke
 * Claire Polin
 * Ardal Powell
 * Stephen Preston
 * Johann Joachim Quantz – instructor of Frederick the Great, and author of important treatise
 * Jean-Pierre Rampal
 * Joseph Rampal
 * Kurt Redel
 * Jean Rémusat
 * Gwyn Roberts
 * Paula Robison
 * Mindy Rosenfeld
 * Elizabeth Rowe
 * Jane Rutter
 * Gro Sandvik
 * Federico Maria Sardelli
 * Adolf Scherbaum
 * Gary Schocker
 * Karl-Heinz Schütz
 * John Scott
 * Johann Sedlatzek
 * Elaine Shaffer
 * Felix Skowronek
 * Fenwick Smith
 * Harvey Sollberger
 * Ashley Solomon
 * John Solum
 * Mark Sparks
 * Fritz Spiegl
 * Christian Sprenger
 * Simion Stanciu
 * Sanja Stijačić
 * Alexa Still
 * Mimi Stillman
 * Jiří Stivín
 * James Strauss
 * Lamar Stringfield
 * Leoš Svárovský
 * Paul Taffanel
 * Paul Taub
 * Mark Thomas
 * Rudolf Tillmetz
 * Albert Tipton
 * Manfred Trojahn
 * Johann George Tromlitz
 * Vladimir Tsybin
 * Jean-Louis Tulou
 * Owen Underhill
 * Pierre-André Valade
 * Joaquín Valverde Durán
 * Henk van der Vliet
 * David Van Vactor
 * Peter Verhoyen
 * Linda Vogt
 * Adam Walker
 * Jim Walker
 * Robert Hugh Willoughby
 * Meredith Willson
 * Ransom Wilson
 * Carol Wincenc
 * Johann Georg Wunderlich
 * Charles Wyatt
 * Trevor Wye
 * Robert Wykes
 * Carl Zerrahn
 * Matthias Ziegler
 * Karlheinz Zöller
 * Jacques Zoon
 * Eugenia Zukerman
 * Ariel Zuckermann

Indian

 * Devendra Murdeshwar
 * Mayavaram Saraswathi Ammal
 * K. Bhaskaran
 * Sikkil Mala Chandrasekar
 * Debopriya Chatterjee
 * Hariprasad Chaurasia
 * Rakesh Chaurasia
 * Milind Date
 * Pannalal Ghosh
 * Keshav Ginde
 * Pravin Godkhindi
 * Steve Gorn
 * Nityanand Haldipur
 * Kudamaloor Janardanan
 * Chetan Joshi
 * Naveen Kumar
 * T. R. "Mali" Mahalingam
 * Ronu Majumdar
 * Pandit Niranjan Prasad
 * Raghunath Prasanna
 * Rajendra Prasanna
 * Rishab Prasanna
 * Raghavendran Rajasekaran
 * H. Ramachandra Shastry
 * Natesan Ramani
 * Thiagarajan Ramani
 * Vijay Raghav Rao
 * G. S. Sachdev
 * Palladam Sanjiva Rao
 * T. S. Sankaran
 * Tiruchy L. Saravanan
 * Dipak Sarma
 * Sarabha Sastri
 * Raghunath Seth
 * B. Shankar Rao
 * Sikkil Sisters – Kunjumani & Neela
 * Prapancham Sitaram
 * T. N. Sivakumar
 * Shashank Subramanyam
 * Tanjore Viswanathan
 * Ma Anand Yashu
 * Bapu Padmanabha

Irish

 * Harry Bradley
 * Vincent Broderick
 * Paddy Carty
 * Catherine Coleman – astronaut
 * Kevin Crawford
 * Eddie Duffy
 * Packie Duignan
 * Brian Dunning
 * Séamus Egan
 * Brian Finnegan
 * Michael Flatley
 * Steph Geremia
 * Carmel Gunning
 * Peter Horan
 * Frankie Kennedy
 * Joanie Madden
 * Josie McDermott
 * Michael McGoldrick
 * John McKenna
 * Matt Molloy
 * Conal Ó Gráda
 * Peadar O'Loughlin
 * Marcas Ó Murchú
 * Francis O'Neill
 * Mike Rafferty
 * Micho Russell
 * Seamus Tansey
 * Michael Tubridy

Japanese

 * Christopher Yohmei Blasdel
 * Watazumi Doso
 * Robin Hartshorne
 * Yoshikazu Iwamoto
 * Phil Nyokai James
 * Kaoru Kakizakai
 * Masayuki Koga
 * Ron Korb – also other world flutes
 * Kinko Kurosawa
 * Ken LaCosse
 * Riley Lee
 * Kōhachiro Miyata
 * John Kaizan Neptune
 * Kokū Nishimura
 * Atsuya Okuda
 * Alcvin Ramos
 * Rodrigo Rodriguez
 * James Nyoraku Schlefer
 * Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Seldin
 * Gorō Yamaguchi
 * Hōzan Yamamoto
 * Katsuya Yokoyama
 * Masakazu Yoshizawa

Native American

 * Bryan Akipa
 * Michael Graham Allen
 * Timothy Archambault
 * Jeff Ball
 * Odell Borg
 * Robert Tree Cody
 * Brent Michael Davids
 * Joseph Fire Crow
 * Mark Holland
 * Al Jewer
 * Nicole LaRoche
 * Hawk Littlejohn
 * Charles Littleleaf
 * Kevin Locke
 * Tom Mauchahty-Ware
 * Bill Miller
 * Robert Mirabal
 * Michael Murphy
 * R. Carlos Nakai
 * Sonny Nevaquaya
 * Jay Red Eagle
 * Douglas Spotted Eagle
 * Barry Stramp
 * Gentle Thunder
 * Andrew Vasquez
 * Tommy Wildcat
 * Mary Youngblood

Other traditional / Folk

 * Altamiro Carrilho – Brazilian
 * Joaquim da Silva – Brazilian
 * Bora Dugić – Serbian
 * Avraham Eilam-Amzallag – Israeli
 * Gilbert Favre – Bolivian
 * Julie Fowlis – Scottish
 * Hassan Kassai – Persian
 * Liu Qichao – Chinese
 * Efraín Loyola – Cuban
 * Fănică Luca – Romanian
 * Yacouba Moumouni – Nigerian
 * Chris Norman – Scottish
 * Hossein Omoumi – Persian
 * Hemapala Perera – Sri Lankan
 * Lou Pérez – Cuban
 * Pixinguinha – Brazilian
 * Niyazi Sayın – Turkish
 * Omar Faruk Tekbilek – Turkish
 * Neyzen Tevfik – Turkish
 * Henry Thomas – American
 * Otha Turner – American
 * Uiliami Leilua Vi – Tongan
 * Gheorghe Zamfir – Romanian

Jazz / New Age

 * André 3000
 * George Adams
 * Marshall Allen
 * Curtis Amy
 * Ashleigh Ball
 * Phillip Bent
 * Sean Bergin
 * T. K. Blue
 * Andrea Brachfeld
 * Jane Bunnett
 * Don Burrows
 * Wayman Carver
 * Danilo Caymmi
 * Eugenio Colombo
 * John Coltrane
 * Charles Compo
 * Hector Costita
 * Charles Davis
 * Jean Derome
 * Robert Dick
 * Marco Di Meco
 * Eric Dixon
 * Fostina Dixon
 * Lyn Dobson
 * Eric Dolphy
 * Bob Downes
 * Damian Drăghici
 * Matt Eakle
 * Marty Ehrlich
 * Kat Epple
 * Joe Farrell
 * Sonny Fortune
 * Peter Guidi
 * Guttorm Guttormsen
 * Vincent Herring
 * Paul Horn
 * Bobbi Humphrey
 * Fred Jackson Jr.
 * Bobby Jaspar
 * Simon Jensen
 * Tom Keenlyside
 * Stefan Keller
 * Wouter Kellerman
 * Rahsaan Roland Kirk
 * Moe Koffman
 * Joe Kučera
 * Brian Landrus
 * Prince Lasha
 * Yusef Lateef
 * Hubert Laws
 * Geoff Leigh
 * Björn J:son Lindh
 * Charles Lloyd
 * "Magic" Malik Mezzadri
 * Herbie Mann
 * Bill McBirnie
 * Harold McNair
 * Lloyd McNeill
 * Chris Michell
 * Bobby Militello
 * Nicole Mitchell
 * James Moody
 * Ras Moshe
 * Sam Most
 * Charlie Munro
 * David "Fathead" Newman
 * James Newton
 * Andy Panayi
 * Eddie Parker
 * Greg Pattillo – beatboxing while playing the flute
 * Finn Peters
 * Jaime Prats
 * Raja Ram
 * Nelson Rangell
 * Niki Reiser
 * Jerome Richardson
 * Sam Rivers
 * Ali Ryerson
 * Pharoah Sanders
 * Clifford Scott
 * Bud Shank
 * Sahib Shihab
 * Ronald Snijders
 * Alberto Socarras
 * Les Spann
 * James Spaulding
 * Jeremy Steig
 * Nicola Stilo
 * John Stubblefield
 * Rowland Sutherland
 * Lew Tabackin
 * Joe Thomas
 * Frank Tiberi
 * Fred Tompkins
 * Néstor Torres
 * Theo Travis
 * Norris Turney
 * Dave Valentin
 * Harold Vick
 * Miho Wada
 * Jim Walker
 * Carlos Ward
 * Frank Wess
 * Steve Wilson
 * Leo Wright
 * Ma Anand Yashu
 * Alexander Zonjic

Rock / Pop

 * Ian Anderson – Jethro Tull
 * India Arie
 * Kofi Burbridge – Tedeschi Trucks Band
 * Barry Burns – Mogwai
 * Mel Collins – King Crimson
 * Burton Cummings – The Guess Who
 * Charles DeChant – Hall & Oates
 * Jerry Eubanks – Marshall Tucker Band
 * Peter Gabriel – Genesis
 * John Hackett
 * Barry Hay – Golden Earring
 * Tee Mac Iseli
 * David Jackson – Van der Graaf Generator
 * Sevan Kirder – Eluveitie
 * Terry Kirkman – The Association
 * Andrew Latimer – Camel
 * Lizzo
 * Rozalind MacPhail
 * Ian McDonald – King Crimson
 * Teddy Osei – Osibisa
 * Walter Parazaider – Chicago
 * Florian Schneider – Kraftwerk
 * Ray Thomas – The Moody Blues
 * Thijs van Leer – Focus
 * Tim Weisberg – jazz, rock, fusion
 * Ann Wilson – Heart
 * Chris Wood – Traffic