List of classical violinists
This is a list of notable classical violinists from the baroque era to the 20th century.
For a more comprehensive list of contemporary classical violinists, see List of contemporary classical violinists.
Baroque era
- Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Thomas Baltzar
- Arcangelo Corelli
- Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco
- Matthew Dubourg
- André-Joseph Exaudet
- Carlo Farina
- Francesco Geminiani
- Louis-Gabriel Guillemain
- Jean-Marie Leclair
- Pietro Locatelli
- Francesco Manfredini
- Nicola Matteis
- Davis Mell
- Jean-Joseph de Mondonville
- Johann Georg Pisendel
- Johann Heinrich Schmelzer
- Giovanni Battista Somis
- Giuseppe Tartini
- Carlo Tessarini
- Giuseppe Torelli
- Francesco Maria Veracini
- Giovanni Battista Vitali
- Tomaso Antonio Vitali
- Antonio Vivaldi
Classical era
- Leopold August Abel
- Jean Ancot Jnr
- Pierre Baillot
- Charles Frederick Baumgarten
- Franz Benda
- Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni
- Bartolomeo Campagnoli
- Christian Cannabich
- Franz Clement
- Richard Cudmore
- Ernst Christoph Dressler
- Domenico Ferrari
- Ferdinand Fränzl
- Ignaz Fränzl
- Pierre Gaviniès
- Eugène Godecharle
- Jean-Jacques Grasset
- Johann Gottlieb Graun
- François Habeneck
- Joseph Haydn
- Ivan Mane Jarnović
- Rodolphe Kreutzer
- Thomas Linley the younger
- Antonio Lolli
- Heinrich August Matthaei
- Jean-Joseph de Mondonville
- Leopold Mozart
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Pietro Nardini
- Thomas Pinto
- Friedrich Wilhelm Pixis
- Gaetano Pugnani
- Pierre Rode
- Alessandro Rolla
- Antonio Rolla
- Ignaz Schuppanzigh
- Anton Stamitz
- Carl Stamitz
- Johann Stamitz
- Regina Strinasacchi
- Luigi Tomasini
- Giovanni Battista Viotti
Romantic era
- Jean-Delphin Alard
- Leopold Auer
- Stanisław Barcewicz
- Antonio Bazzini
- Antonín Bennewitz
- Charles Auguste de Bériot
- Franz Berwald
- Casimir von Blumenthal
- Joseph von Blumenthal
- Alexandre Boucher
- George Bridgetower
- Adolph Brodsky
- Ole Bull
- Kate Chaplin
- Julius Conus
- Mathieu Crickboom
- Alfredo D'Ambrosio
- Charles Dancla
- Joseph Dando
- Ferdinand David
- Alfred De Sève
- Jakob Dont
- František Drdla
- Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst
- Friedrich Ernst Fesca
- Nahan Franko
- Sam Franko
- Jules Garcin
- François Habeneck
- Karel Halíř
- Carl Heissler
- Joseph Hellmesberger Jr.
- Joseph Hellmesberger Sr.
- Philip A. Herfort
- Willy Hess
- Jenő Hubay
- Frantz Jehin-Prume
- Joseph Joachim
- Paul Klengel
- Franz Kneisel
- Jan Koert
- Apollinaire de Kontski
- Franjo Krežma
- Walborg Lagerwall
- Hubert Léonard
- Karol Lipiński
- John David Loder
- David Mannes
- Martin Pierre Marsick
- Oscar Martel
- Lambert Massart
- Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer
- Jacques Féréol Mazas
- Maria Milanollo
- Teresa Milanollo
- Ovide Musin
- Wilma Neruda
- Ottokar Nováček
- Niccolò Paganini
- Heinrich Panofka
- Guido Papini
- Maud Powell
- François Prume
- Oskar Rieding
- Franz Ries
- Achille Rivarde
- Engelbert Röntgen
- Pablo de Sarasate
- Émile Sauret
- Eugène Sauzay
- Marianne Stresow Scharwenka
- Henry Schradieck
- François Schubert
- Fritz Seitz
- Otakar Ševčík
- Ödön Singer
- Camillo Sivori
- Theodore Spiering
- Louis Spohr
- Ludwig Straus
- Johann Strauss I
- Johann Strauss II
- Josef Suk
- César Thomson
- Carl Venth
- Henri Vieuxtemps
- José White
- Henryk Wieniawski
- August Wilhelmj
- Eugène Ysaÿe
20th–21st centuries
- Murray Adaskin
- Anahid Ajemian
- Samuel Antek
- Jelly d'Arányi
- Helen Armstrong
- Michèle Auclair
- Florence Austin
- Oskar Back
- Ik-Hwan Bae
- Israel Baker
- Vera Barstow
- Hugh Bean
- Nina Beilina
- Leon Belasco
- Franz Benteler
- Luigi Alberto Bianchi
- Petrowitsch Bissing
- Serge Blanc
- Naoum Blinder
- Harry Bluestone
- Lola Bobesco
- Emanuel Borok
- Willi Boskovsky
- Norbert Brainin
- Robert Brink
- Jascha Brodsky
- Alexander Brott
- Anshel Brusilow
- Gerda von Bülow
- Grace Burrows
- Adolf Busch
- Guila Bustabo
- Alfredo Campoli
- Mary Canberg
- Lucien Capet
- Albert Chamberland
- Eugène Chartier
- Alexander Chuhaldin
- Stephen Clapp
- Isidore Cohen
- Raymond Cohen
- Alexander Cores
- Joey Corpus
- Peter Cropper
- Dorothy DeLay
- Gioconda de Vito
- Grigoraș Dinicu
- Rafael Druian
- Samuel Dushkin
- Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté
- Arnold Eidus
- Mischa Elman
- George Enescu
- Broadus Erle
- Toshiya Eto
- Adila Fachiri
- Ilona Fehér
- Aldo Ferraresi
- Christian Ferras
- Mikhail Fichtenholz
- Joan Field
- Eugene Fodor
- Zino Francescatti
- Walter Fried
- Erick Friedman
- Joseph Fuchs
- Marjorie Fulton
- Ivan Galamian
- Felix Galimir
- André Gertler
- Elizabeth Gilels
- Zinaida Gilels
- Bronislav Gimpel
- Josef Gingold
- Carroll Glenn
- Paul Godwin
- Szymon Goldberg
- Boris Goldstein
- Alexei Gorokhov
- Sidney Griller
- Frederick Grinke
- Arthur Grumiaux
- Daniel Guilet
- Boris Gutnikov
- Ida Haendel
- Betty-Jean Hagen
- Sandor Harmati
- Sidney Harth
- Josef Hassid
- Kató Havas
- Julius Hegyi
- Jascha Heifetz
- Philippe Hirschhorn
- Henry Holst
- Bronisław Huberman
- Emanuel Hurwitz
- Jacques Israelievitch
- Sascha Jacobsen
- Piotr Janowski
- Oleg Kagan
- Kaoru Kakudo
- Louis Kaufman
- Eda Kersey
- Paul Kochanski
- Dmitri Kogan
- Leonid Kogan
- Felix Kok
- Rudolf Kolisch
- Péter Komlós
- Hugo Kortschak
- Boris Koutzen
- Tosca Kramer
- Herman Krebbers
- Fritz Kreisler
- Jan Kubelík
- Georg Kulenkampff
- Helen Kwalwasser
- Fredell Lack
- Isidor Lateiner
- Ida Levin
- Walter Levin
- Nona Liddell
- Maria Lidka
- Lea Luboshutz
- Sergiu Luca
- Klaus Maetzl
- Hugh Maguire
- Paul Makanowitzky
- Robert Mann
- Henri Marteau
- Lucien Martin
- Johanna Martzy
- Leonora Jackson McKim
- Ivor McMahon
- Alfred Eugene Megerlin
- Wilhelm Melcher
- Isolde Menges
- Yehudi Menuhin
- Roberto Michelucci
- Nathan Milstein
- Mischa Mischakoff
- Cyril Monk
- Alma Moodie
- Lydia Mordkovitch
- Erika Morini
- Alfonso Mosesti
- Konstantin Mostras
- Peter Mountain
- David Nadien
- Yfrah Neaman
- Ginette Neveu
- Siegmund Nissel
- Ricardo Odnoposoff
- David Oistrakh
- Edgar Ortenberg
- Trond Øyen
- Margaret Pardee
- Manoug Parikian
- Kathleen Parlow
- Louis Persinger
- Maximilian Pilzer
- Alfred Pochon
- Max Pollikoff
- Enrico Polo
- Katia Popov
- Ruth Posselt
- Jean Pougnet
- Gaston Poulet
- Albert Pratz
- Mikhail Press
- Váša Příhoda
- Simon Pullman
- Manuel Quiroga
- Michael Rabin
- Rosemary Rapaport
- Ossy Renardy
- Florizel von Reuter
- Ruggiero Ricci
- Amadeo Roldán
- Aaron Rosand
- Alma Rosé
- Arnold Rosé
- Eric Rosenblith
- Max Rostal
- Olga Rudge
- Albert Sammons
- David Sarser
- Wolfgang Schneiderhan
- Dina Schneidermann
- Jaap Schröder
- Toscha Seidel
- Berl Senofsky
- Nelli Shkolnikova
- Oscar Shumsky
- Joseph Silverstein
- Julian Sitkovetsky
- Semyon Snitkovsky
- Marie Soldat-Roeger
- Leonard Sorkin
- Eduard Sõrmus
- Albert Spalding
- Tossy Spivakovsky
- Christian Stadelmann
- Ethel Stark
- Benjamin Steinberg
- Hellmut Stern
- Isaac Stern
- Aida Stucki
- Pyotr Stolyarsky
- Josef Suk
- Zoltán Székely
- Henryk Szeryng
- Joseph Szigeti
- Gerhard Taschner
- Henri Temianka
- Jacques Thibaud
- Roman Totenberg
- Andor Toth
- Anahit Tsitsikian
- Tibor Varga
- Sándor Végh
- Ion Voicu
- William Waterhouse
- Clarence Cameron White
- Wanda Wiłkomirska
- Endre Wolf
- Josef Wolfsthal
- Rowsby Woof
- Cedric Wright
- Yuri Yankelevich
- Florian ZaBach
- Zvi Zeitlin
- Grigori Zhislin
- Efrem Zimbalist
- Olive Zorian
- Paul Zukofsky
Comedic
- Jack Benny
- Larry Fine
- Henny Youngman
Contemporary
- See List of contemporary classical violinists
Female
- See List of female violinists