List of clarinetists
This article lists notable musicians who have played the clarinet.
Classical clarinetists
- Ernest Ačkun
- Luís Afonso
- Cristiano Alves
- Michel Arrignon
- Dimitri Ashkenazy
- Kinan Azmeh
- Alexander Bader
- Carl Baermann
- Heinrich Baermann
- József Balogh
- Cristo Barrios
- Luigi Bassi
- Simeon Bellison
- Kálmán Berkes
- Julian Bliss
- Kalman Bloch
- Walter Boeykens
- Henri Bok
- Daniel Bonade
- Tara Bouman
- Naftule Brandwein
- Shirley Brill
- Bruno Brun
- Jack Brymer
- Lars Kristian Brynildsen
- Nicola Bulfone
- Ovanir Buosi
- Sérgio Burgani
- Louis Cahuzac
- David Campbell
- James Campbell
- Alessandro Carbonare
- Ernesto Cavallini
- Florent Charpentier
- Jonathan Cohler
- Larry Combs
- Jean-Noël Crocq
- Philippe Cuper
- Gervase de Peyer
- Hans Deinzer
- Guy Deplus
- Charles Draper
- Stanley Drucker
- Eli Eban
- Anton Eberst
- Julian Egerton
- Fredrik Fors
- Alan Frank
- Rupert Fankhauser
- Thomas Friedli
- Mariano Frogioni
- Martin Fröst
- Wenzel Fuchs
- Peter Geisler
- Anthony Gigliotti
- Bruno di Girolamo
- Johannes Gmeinder
- Jose Gonzalez Granero
- Ante Grgin
- Alan Hacker
- Chen Halevi
- Burt Hara
- Russell Harlow
- David Hattner
- Richard Haynes
- Johann Simon Hermstedt
- Johann Hindler
- Helmut Hödl
- Emma Johnson
- Sharon Kam
- Reginald Kell
- Murray Khouri
- Thea King
- Dieter Klöcker
- Howard Klug
- Béla Kovács
- Wolfgang Kornberger
- Kari Kriikku
- Alison Lambert
- Andrey Laukhin
- Colin Lawson
- Andreas Lehnert
- Karl Leister
- Michel Lethiec
- Lorin Levee
- Todd Levy
- Robert Lindemann
- Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr
- John Mahon
- Jon Manasse
- Sebastian Manz
- Robert Marcellus
- Michele Marelli
- Andrew Marriner
- Pascual Martínez-Forteza
- Lawrence Maxey
- Marco Antonio Mazzini
- William McColl
- Anthony McGill
- Ralph McLane
- Jacques Meertens
- Douglas Metcalf
- Paul Meyer
- Sabine Meyer
- Wolfgang Meyer
- Lev Mikhailov
- Pascal Moraguès
- Ricardo Morales
- Richard Mühlfeld
- Charles Neidich
- Tale Ognenovski
- Sean Osborn
- Andreas Ottensamer
- Ernst Ottensamer
- Edward Palanker
- Antony Pay
- Thomas Piercy
- Frank Pilato
- George Pieterson
- Manfred Preis
- Alfred Prinz
- Håkan Rosengren
- Luis Rossi
- Sergei Rozanov
- Hubert Salmhofer
- Louis Sclavis
- Peter Schmidl
- Michael Seaver
- Raphaël Sévère
- David Shifrin
- Mark Simpson
- Vladimir Sokolov
- Nikola Srdić
- Anton Stadler
- Milenko Stefanović
- Karl-Heinz Steffens
- Suzanne Stephens
- Richard Stoltzman
- Peter Sunman
- Frederick Thurston
- Alison Turriff
- Annelien Van Wauwe
- Jean-François Verdier
- Richard Sidney Walthew
- Bernard Walton
- David Weber
- Michael Whight
- Jörg Widmann
- Harold Wright
- John Bruce Yeh
- Michele Zukovsky
Jazz and pop clarinetists
- Muhal Richard Abrams
- George Adams
- Sophie Alour
- Lloyd Arntzen
- Georgie Auld
- Nailor Azevedo
- Paulo Moura
- Buster Bailey
- Craig Ball
- Eddie Barefield
- Alan Barnes
- Emile Barnes
- John Barnes
- Gary Bartz
- Alvin Batiste
- Heinie Beau
- Sidney Bechet
- Shloimke Beckerman
- Sidney Beckerman
- Han Bennink
- Derek Bermel
- Barney Bigard
- Acker Bilk
- Chris Biscoe
- Andy Biskin
- Dan Block
- Hamiet Bluiett
- Anthony Braxton
- Peter Brötzmann
- Pud Brown
- Sandy Brown
- Albert Burbank
- Don Byron
- Ernie Caceres
- Happy Caldwell
- Harry Carney
- Benny Carter
- Daniel Carter
- James Carter
- John Carter
- John Casimir
- Evan Christopher
- Rod Cless
- Tony Coe
- Anat Cohen
- Randolph Colville
- Louis Cottrell Jr.
- Hank D'Amico
- Eddie Daniels
- John Dankworth
- Joe Darensbourg
- Kenny Davern
- Paul Dean
- Buddy DeFranco
- Tobias Delius
- Big Eye Louis Nelson Deslile
- Simon Flem Devold
- Johnny Dodds
- Klaus Doldinger
- Eric Dolphy
- Arne Domnérus
- Jimmy Dorsey
- Tommy Douglas
- Paquito D'Rivera
- Gerd Dudek
- Paul Dunmall
- Kai Fagaschinski
- Wally Fawkes
- Irving Fazola
- Buddy Featherstonhaugh
- Giora Feidman
- Pete Fountain
- Bud Freeman
- Chico Freeman
- Victor Goines
- Jimmy Giuffre
- German Goldenshtayn
- Benny Goodman
- Edmond Hall
- Jimmy Hamilton
- Arville Harris
- Bob Helm
- Woody Herman
- Peanuts Hucko
- Dink Johnson
- Theo Jörgensmann
- David Krakauer
- Mustafa Kandirali
- John LaPorta
- Prince Lasha
- Margot Leverett
- Walt Levinsky
- George Lewis
- Ted Lewis
- Matt Lavelle
- Joe Maneri
- Michael Marcus
- Joe Marsala
- Stan McDonald
- Hal McKusick
- Mezz Mezzrow
- Jean-Christian Michel
- Marcus Miller
- Gabriele Mirabassi
- Gussie Mueller
- David Murray
- Don Murray
- Phil Nimmons
- Jimmie Noone
- Alcide Nunez
- Sean O'Boyle
- Tale Ognenovski
- Ivo Papazov
- Art Pepper
- Ken Peplowski
- Sid Phillips
- Michel Portal
- Perry Robinson
- Leon Roppolo
- Ned Rothenberg
- Harold Rubin
- Pee Wee Russell
- Dan St. Marseille
- Tom Sancton
- Louis Sclavis
- Tony Scott
- Artie Shaw
- Harry Shields
- Larry Shields
- Omer Simeon
- Bill Smith
- Chris Speed
- S. Frederick Starr
- Milenko Stefanović
- Richard Stoltzman
- Wilbur Sweatman
- Antti Sarpila
- Monty Sunshine
- Dave Tarras
- Frank Teschemacher
- Theo Travis
- Shankar Tucker
- Allan Vache
- Ken Vandermark
- Oliver Weindling
- Michael White
- Hans Olof Wickman
- Bob Wilber
- Lester Young
- Evan Ziporyn