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.

Historical oboists

Baroque period 1600–1760

Classical period 1730–1820

Romantic period 1815–1910

20th-century oboists

A–L

M–Z

20th-century players of the English horn

Contemporary classical oboists

A–B

C–E

F–H

I–L

M–Q

R–S

T–Z

Contemporary oboists best known for playing English horn (cor anglais) or oboe d'amore

Contemporary oboists best known for playing period instruments

Oboists performing primarily outside classical genres

As primary instrument

As secondary instrument

Shehnai players