以下將常見的小提琴家依年代區分 (under construction):
| Violinist | Year | Nationality | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niccolo Paganini | 1782-1840 | Italy | |
| Henri Vieuxtemps | 1820-1881 | Belgium | |
| Joseph Joachim | 1831-1907 | Slovakia | |
| Henryk Wieniawski | 1835-1880 | Poland | |
| Pablo de Sarasate | 1844-1908 | Spain | |
| Eugene Ysaye | 1858-1931 | Belgium | |
| Fritz Kreisler | 1875-1962 | Austria | |
| Jacques Thibaud | 1880-1953 | France | |
| Adolf Busch | 1891-1952 | Germany | |
| Joseph Szigetti | 1892-1973 | Hungary | |
| Jascha Heifetz | 1901-1987 | Lithuania | |
| Zino Francescatti | 1902-1991 | France | |
| Nathan Milstein | 1903-1992 | Russia | |
| David Oistrakh | 1908-1974 | Ukraine | |
| Wolfgang Schneiderhan | 1915-2002 | Austria | |
| Yehudi Menuhin | 1916-1999 | USA | |
| Henryk Szeryng | 1918-1988 | Poland | |
| Ruggiero Ricci | 1918- | Italy | |
| Ginette Neveu | 1919-1949 | France | |
| Isaac Stern | 1920-2001 | Ukraine | |
| Arthur Grumiaux | 1921-1986 | Belgium | |
| Leonid Borisovitch Kogan | 1924-1982 | Ukraine | |
| Ida Haendel | 1928- | Poland | |
| Igor Oistrakh | 1931- | Ukraine | |
| Salvatore Accardo | 1941- | Italy | |
| Takako Nishizaki (西崎崇子) | 1944- | Japan | |
| Itzhak Perlman | 1945- | Israel | |
| Gidon Kremer | 1947- | Latvia | |
| Pinchas Zukerman | 1948- | Israel | |
| Kyung-Wha Chung (鄭京和) | 1948- | Korea | |
| Nigel Kennedy | 1956- | UK | |
| Peter Frank Zimmermann | 1956- | Germany | |
| Shlomo Mintz | 1957- | Israel | |
| Viktoria Mullova | 1959- | Russia | |
| Cho-Liang Lin (林昭亮) | 1960- | Taiwan | |
| Anne Sophie Mutter | 1963- | Germany | |
| Tasmin Little | 1965- | England | |
| Joshua Bell | 1967- | USA | |
| Gil Shaham | 1971- | Israel | |
| Maxim Vengerov | 1974- | Russia | |
| Hilary Hahn | 1979- | USA | |
| Sarah Chang | 1980- | Korea | |
| Pamela Frank | ?- | USA | |
| Mayumi Seiler | ?- | Japan/Germany | |