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In American English, a flutist is a musician who plays the flute. The equivalant British and Commonwealth term is flautist (based on Italian word flauto, and adopted due to 18th century Italian influence).
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
- William Kincaid
- Hans-Martin Linde
- Gareth Morris
- Marcel Moyse
- Aurčle Nicolet
- Emmanuel Pahud
- Stephen Preston
- Johann Joachim Quantz - instructor of Frederick the Great
- Jean Pierre Rampal
- Elaine Shaffer
- John Wummer
- Karl-Heinz Zöller
- Ian Anderson
- George Adams
- 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
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