Baroque period 1600–1760 (1661–1726) •
Francesco Barsanti (1690–1772), Italian * (composer) •
Alessandro Besozzi (1702–1773), Italian •
Antonio Besozzi (1714–1781), Italian •
Cristoforo Besozzi (1661–1725), Italian •
Giuseppe Besozzi (1686–1760), Italian •
Paolo Girolamo Besozzi (1713–1778), Italian •
Mateo Bissoli (Bisioli) ( 1711 – 1780), Italian •
Esprit Philippe Chédeville (1696–1762), French * •
Nicolas Chédeville (1705–1782), French * •
Pierre Chédeville (1694–1725), French * •
André Danican Philidor (c. 1652–1730), French * (music librarian) •
Anne Danican Philidor (1681–1728), French •
Jean Danican Philidor ( 1620 – 1679), French • (1580–1651), French • (1681–1731), French •
John Ernest Galliard ( 1675 – 1747), German * •
Johann Caspar Gleditsch (1684–1747), German ("Bach's oboist") •
Peter Glösch ( 1685 – 1754), German •
Jean Hotteterre ( 1610 – 1691), French * (instrument maker) (one of several oboists in the family) •
Martin Hotteterre (1635–1712), French * (instrument maker) •
Nicolas Hotteterre (1637–1694), French * •
Johann Christian Jacobi (1719–1784), German (oboist at Janitsch's "Freitags-Akademien") •
Jean Christian Kytch (died 1738), Dutch ("Handel's oboist") •
François La Riche (1662 – after 1733), Flemish * •
Jacques Loeillet (1685–1748), Flemish * •
Jean-Baptiste Loeillet (1680–1730), Flemish * •
Jacques Paisible ( 1656 – 1721), French (oboist in
Robert Cambert orchestra which moved to London in 1673) •
Joan Baptista Pla ( 1720 – 1773), Spanish * •
Josep Pla (1728–1762), Spanish * •
Manuel Pla ( 1725 – 1766), Spanish * •
Giovanni Benedetto Platti (1697–1763), Italian * •
Johann Christian Richter (1689–1744), German
Classical period 1730–1820 •
Sante Aguilar ( 1734 – 1808), Italian •
Christian Frederik Barth (1787–1861), Danish •
Christian Samuel Barth (1735–1809), German * •
Frederik Philip Carl August Barth (1774–1804), Danish * •
Georg Benda (1722–1795), Czech * (composer) •
Carlo Besozzi (1738–1791), Italian •
Francesco Besozzi (1766–1816), Italian •
Gaetano Besozzi (1725–1794), Italian •
Girolamo Besozzi ( 1745 – 1788), Italian •
Friedrich Braun (1759–1824), German * •
Franz Joseph Czerwenka (1759–1835), Czech-Austrian ("Beethoven's oboist") •
Georg Druschetzky (1745–1819), Czech * •
Giuseppe Ferlendis (1755–1810), Italian * •
Josef Fiala (1748–1816), Czech * ("Mozart's oboist 1") •
Johann Christian Fischer (1733–1800), German * •
Joseph François Garnier (1755–1825), French * •
Michel Joseph Gebauer (1763–1812), French * •
Gottlieb Graupner (1767–1836), German-American •
William Herschel (1738–1822), German (astronomer) (before 1765 primarily oboist, only later an astronomer) •
François Jadin (1731–1790), French * •
Carl Khym (1770–after 1819), Czech * •
Ludwig August Lebrun (1746–1790), German * •
Ignace Malzat (1757–1804), Austrian (probably wrote the
"Haydn" oboe concerto) * • ( 1723 – 1804), Italian * •
Carl Ludwig Matthes (1751–?), German •
John Parke (1745–1829), English * •
William Thomas Parke (1762–1847), English * •
Giuseppe Prota (1737–1807), Italian * •
Friedrich Ramm (1744–1813), German ("Mozart's oboist 2") •
Georg Triebensee (1746–1813), Bohemian * •
Josef Triebensee (1772–1846), Bohemian * (composer) • (1745–1801), Bohemian * •
Thomas Vincent (1720–1783), English *
Romantic period 1815–1910 by C. Reimers , 1903 •
Apollon Barret (1804–1879), French * •
Christian Frederik Barth (1787–1861), Danish * •
Richard Baumgärtel (1858–1941), German •
Félix-Charles Berthélemy (1829–1868), French •
Carl A.P. Braun (1788–1835), German * •
Wilhelm Braun (1796–1867), German * •
Henri Brod (1799–1839), French * •
Baldassare Centroni ( 1784 – 1860), Italian ("Rossini's oboist") • (1832–1881), French •
Franz Wilhelm Ferling (1796–1874), German • (1909–1971), German •
Georges Gillet (1854–1920), French * •
Joseph Gungl (1810–1889), Hungarian * (conductor) •
Johann Peter Heuschkel (1773–1853), German * •
Ernst Krähmer (1795–1857), German * •
Olivo Krause (1857–1927), Danish •
Desiré Alfred Lalande (1866–1904), French * •
Antoine Joseph Lavigne (1816–1886), French •
Johann Heinrich Luft (1813–1877), German •
William Malsch (1855–1924), English * •
Giovanni Paggi (1806–1887), Italian * •
Antonio Pasculli (1842–1924), Italian * (the "Paganini of the oboe") •
Charles Reynolds (1843–1916), English •
Friedrich Ruthardt (1800–1862), German •
Adolf Rzepko (1825–1892), Polish * •
Joseph Sellner (1787–1843), Austrian •
Pedro Soler (1810–1850), Spanish •
Friedrich-Eugen Thurner (1785–1827), German •
Charles Triébert (1810–1867), French * •
Frédéric Triébert (1813–1878), French * (instrument maker) •
Raoul Triébert (1845 – ), French * •
Stanislas Verroust (1814–1863), French •
Gustave Vogt (1781–1870), French * •
Friedrich Westenholz (1778–1840), German * •
Carlo Yvon (1798–1854), Italian == 20th-century oboists ==
A–L • Albert J. Andraud (1884–1975), French-American •
Rhadames Angelucci (1915–1991), American •
Alfred Barthel (1871–1957), French •
Evelyn Barbirolli (born Evelyn Rothwell), (1911–2008), English * •
Louis Bas (1863–1944), French •
Etienne Baudo (1903–2001), French • (1871–1941), French •
Robert Bloom (1908–1994), American * •
Joy Boughton (1913–1963), English •
Maurice Bourgue (1939–2023), French •
Leonard Brain (1915–1975), English * •
Henri de Busscher (1880–1975), Belgian * •
Natalie Caine (1909–2008), English • (1932–1984), French •
Janet Craxton (1929–1981), English * (Sister of the painter
John Craxton) •
William Criss (1921–1984), American •
John de Lancie (1921–2002), American * •
Albert Debondue (1895–1984), French •
Antonio Estévez (1916–1988), Venezuelan * (composer) •
Alvin Etler (1913–1973), American * (composer) •
Svend Christian Felumb (1898–1972), Danish •
Peter Fischer (1924–2004), German •
Fritz Flemming (born 1872 or 1873; died 1947), German • (1905–1984), Canadian •
Bert Gassman (1911–2004), American •
Fernand Gillet (1882–1980), French •
Ruth Gipps (1921–1999), British (composer) •
Albert Goltzer (1918–2007), American •
Harold Gomberg (1916–1985), American * •
Ralph Gomberg (1921–2006), American * •
Leon Goossens (1897–1988), English * •
Peter Graeme (1921–2012), English •
Percy Grainger (1882–1961), Australian-American • (1910–1990), Czech * •
Earnest Harrison (1918–2005), American •
Hans Kamesch (1901–1975), Austrian •
Rudolf Kempe (1910–1976), German * (conductor) •
Bruno Labate (1883–1968), Italian •
Roland Lamorlette (1894–1960), French •
Georges Longy (1868–1930), French *
M–Z •
Terence MacDonagh (1908–1986), British •
Arno Mariotti (1911–1993), German-born American •
Josef Marx (1913–1978), German-American * •
Robert Mayer (1910–1994), American •
Karl Mayrhofer (1927–1976), Austrian •
Mitch Miller (1911–2010), American (choir conductor, recording director) •
Myrtile Morel (1889–1979), French • (1904–1983), American •
Pierre Pierlot (1921–2007), French •
Giuseppe Prestini (1877–1930), Italian •
David Reichenberg (1950–1987), American * (also listed under period instrumentalists below) •
A. Clyde Roller (1914–2005), American •
Marcel Saillet (1898–1983), Swiss •
Jürg Schaeftlein (1929–1986), Austrian * •
Riccardo Scozzi (1878–1955), Italian •
Harry Shulman (1916–1971), American •
Jerry Sirucek (1922–1996), American • (1922–1995), Dutch •
Václav Smetáček (1906–1986), Czech * (conductor) •
Robert Sprenkle (1914–1988), American •
Warren Stannard (1923–1995), American •
William Grant Still (1895–1978), American * (composer) • (1915–1964), Dutch * •
Jaap Stotijn (1891–1970), Dutch * •
František Suchý (1902–1977), Czech * •
Sidney Sutcliffe (1918–2001), Scottish •
Marcel Tabuteau (1887–1966), French/American * •
Jiří Tancibudek (1921–2004), Czech-Australian •
Giuseppe Tomassini (1915–1987), Italian •
Lois Wann (1912–1999), American •
Alexander Wunderer (1877–1955), Austrian
20th-century players of the English horn •
Engelbert Brenner (1904–1986), Austrian- born American •
Harry Freedman (1922–2005), Polish-born Canadian (composer) •
Hans Hadamowsky (1906–1986), Austrian •
Peter Henkelman (1882–1949), Dutch •
Leo van der Lek (1908–1999), Dutch •
John Minsker (1912–2007), American •
Louis Speyer (1890–1980), French-born American ==Contemporary classical oboists==