# List of flautists

This is a list of notable flute players, organized alphabetically by the musical genre in which they are best known.

## 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
* Gaston Crunelle
* David Davies
* Michel Debost
* Leonardo De Lorenzo
* Jules Demersseman
* Abbie de Quant
* François Devienne
* Franz Doppler
* Karl Doppler
* Béla Drahos
* Louis Drouet
* 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
* 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
* José María del Carmen Ribas
* 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
* Adolf Terschak
* 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 – Nigerien
* 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
* 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