List of oboists

An oboist (formerly hautboist) is a musician who plays the oboe or any oboe family instrument, including the oboe d'amore, cor anglais or English horn, bass oboe and piccolo oboe or oboe musette.

The following is a list of notable past and present professional oboists, with indications when they were/are known better for other professions in their own time.

Oboists with an asterisk (*) have biographies in the online version of the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

Two musette players from the Cantigas de Santa Maria , 13th century
Oboist – etching and print by Johann Christoph Weigel (1661–1726)
Portrait of an unknown oboist by anonymous painter, 1st half 18th century
Johann Friedrich Diethe (1810–1891), oboist of the Gewandhausorchester by C. Reimers
The Oboe Player (Benjamin Sharp) by Thomas Eakins , 1903
Haakon Stotijn, 1961
Attilio Bianco, English horn, 1917
Albrecht Mayer making a reed
Ray Still , 1980s
Marcel Ponseele