An instrumentalist who plays a violin.
Important violinists include:
- Joseph Joachim (19th Century)
- Niccolo Paganini
and the following 20th Century players:
- Willi Boskovsky
- Mischa Elman
- Mayumi Fujikawa
- Zino Francescatti
- Ivry Gitlis
- Stephane Grappelli (jazz)
- Arthur Grumiaux
- Jascha Heifetz
- Bronislav Hubermann
- Leonid Kogan
- Herman Krebbers
- Fritz Kreisler
- Yehudi Menuhin
- Nathan Milstein
- Jeannette Neveu
- David Oistrakh
- Oscar Shumsky
- Isaac Stern
- Henryk Szeryng
- Jacques Thibaud
and some popular present day violinists include: