A flutist is a musician who plays the flute. The term flautist (based on Italian word flauto, and adopted due to 18th century Italian influence) is also used.

Notable classical flute players include:

• Richard Adeney
• Julius Baker
• William Bennett
• Theobald Boehm - also inventor of modern flute keying
• Alfred Franz Doppler
• James Galway
• Severino Gazzelloni
• Peter-Lukas Graf
• Irena Grafenauer
• Frederick the Great - Prussian king and avid amateur
• Kieko Hashiguchi
• William Kincaid
• Hans-Martin Linde
• Gareth Morris
• Marcel Moyse
• André Jaunet
• Louis Fleury
• Aurèle Nicolet
• Emmanuel Pahud
• Stephen Preston
• Johann Joachim Quantz - instructor of Frederick the Great
• Jean Pierre Rampal
• Elaine Shaffer
• Fritz Spiegl
• John Wummer
• Karl-Heinz Zöller

Notable jazz flute players include:

• Ian Anderson
• George Adams
• Walter Bell
• Leslie Burrs
• Wayman Carver
• Hariprasad Chaurasia
• Buddy Collette
• Robert Dick
• Eric Dolphy
• Joe Farrell
• Sonny Fortune
• Pannalal Ghosh
• Paul Horn
• Roland Kirk
• Hubert Laws
• Charles Lloyd
• Herbie Mann
• Yusef Lateef
• Harold McNair
• James Moody
• James Newton
• Jerome Richardson
• Sam Rivers
• Raghunath Seth
• Bud Shank
• Sahib Shihab
• Jeremy Steig
• Nicola Stilo
• Nestor Torres
• Frank Wess
• Leo Wright

External links

• Principal flute players
• Famous players (may have to navigate)
• History of the jazz flute