Thomas Oboe Lee (born September 5, 1945) is a Chinese American composer.
His family left Communist China in 1949 and lived in Hong Kong until 1959, when he moved to São Paulo, Brazil.
Lee's musical education began in Brazil during the Bossa Nova craze.
He performed as a jazz flutist with many illustrious Brazilian musicians, including the singer/songwriter Chico Buarque de Hollanda.
Lee left the group in 1986 to live in Italy for a year when he won the 1987 Rome Prize Fellowship.