| [anonymous] | Other | Not applicable | [Worldwide] | 5 | instrument (as “ūd”) |
| [unknown] | Other | Not applicable | [Worldwide] | 4.2 | instrument (as “oud”), instrument (as “ūd”), instrument |
| Marwan Abado | Person | Male | Austria | | instrument |
| Hassan Abd Alrahman | Person | Male | France | | instrument |
| Ahmed Abdul‐Malik | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “probably tanpura”), instrument |
| Osama Abdulrasol | Person | Male | Belgium | | member of band |
| Rabih Abou-Khalil | Person | Male | Lebanon | 4 | instrument (as “oud, bass oud”), instrument |
| Mohamed Abozekry | Person | Male | France | | member of band |
| Justin Adams | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | instrument (as “'ud”) |
| Moufadhel Adhoum | Person | Male | Belgium | | instrument (as “luth”), member of band |
| Henri Agnel | Person | Male | Évreux | | instrument, member of band |
| Fatih Ahıskalı | Person | Male | Türkiye | | instrument |
| Akgün Çöl | Person | Male | Türkiye | | instrument |
| Tammam Akkari | Person | | | | instrument (as “'ûd”) |
| Ahmad Al Khatib | Person | | Palestine | | member of band |
| Mustafa Al Sunni | Person | Male | London | | instrument (as “'ud”), instrument (as “Aloud”) |
| محمد قاسم الأخفش | Person | Male | Yemen | | instrument (as “ud of Sanaa”) |
| علي الإمام | Person | Male | Iraq | | instrument |
| Abboud al-Shawwā | Person | Male | | | member of band |
| Alban Gouffe | Person | Female | | | instrument |
| Tito Alcedo | Person | Male | Spain | | instrument |
| Γιάννης Αλεξανδρής | Person | Male | Greece | | instrument, member of band |
| Rahim AlHaj | Person | Male | Iraq | | instrument |
| Аббос Алиев | Person | Male | Toshkent | | instrument |
| Khaled AlJaramani | Person | Male | France | | instrument, member of band |
| Mohanad Aljaramani | Person | Male | Syria | | instrument |
| Alla | Person | Male | Algeria | | instrument |
| Khyam Allami | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | instrument |
| Caner Altınbaş | Person | Male | Türkiye | | instrument |
| שמעון עמר | Person | Male | Israel | | instrument |
| Ramiro Amusategui | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| André Hajj | | | | | instrument |
| Ιωάννα Andrews | Person | Female | Greece | | instrument |
| Marc Antoine | Person | Male | Madrid | 4 | instrument |
| Αντώνης Απέργης | Person | Male | Greece | | instrument |
| Argishty | Person | | Sankt-Peterburg | | instrument (as “ud”) |
| Dimitrios Argyropoulos | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Yahya Arouma | Person | | | | instrument |
| Mete Arslan | | | | | instrument |
| Vartan Arslanyan | Person | | | | instrument |
| Enver Mete Aslan | Person | Male | Türkiye | | instrument |
| Adjin Asllan | Person | | | | instrument |
| Θύμιος Ατζακάς | Person | Male | Greece | | member of band |
| Laurent Audemard | Person | Male | | | member of band |
| Omer Avital | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Natik Awayez | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Rıdvan Aytan | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Serhan Aytan | Person | Male | Istanbul | | instrument |
| Ahmet Ayzit | Person | Male | Türkiye | | instrument |
| Alaa Azam | Person | | | | instrument |
| Karim Baggili | Person | Male | Belgium | | instrument |
| Chen Balbus | Person | Male | Israel | | instrument |
| Bekir Baloğlu | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Max Baloian | Person | | | | member of band |
| Tarik Banzi | Person | Male | Morocco | | instrument |
| Saleh Abdul Baqi | Person | Male | Yemen | | instrument |
| Naji Barakat | Person | Male | Yemen | | instrument (as “ud of Sanaa”) |
| Claude Barthélemy | Person | Male | France | | instrument |
| Sedat Başar | Person | Male | Türkiye | | instrument |
| אליסף בשארי | | | | | instrument |
| منير بشير | Person | Male | Iraq | 5 | instrument, teacher |
| Basile Huguenin-Virchaux | Person | | | | instrument |
| Tandoğan Başkurt | Person | Male | Türkiye | | instrument |
| Volkan Bati | Person | | | | instrument |
| Thorsten Bauer | Person | Male | Germany | | instrument |
| Bayram Coşkuner | Person | Male | Türkiye | | instrument |
| Carlos Beceiro | Person | Male | Spain | | instrument |
| Didier Bégon | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Hoseyn Behruzniya | Person | | | | instrument |
| Münir Nurettin Beken | Person | Male | Türkiye | | instrument |
| Majid Bekkas | Person | Male | Morocco | | instrument |
| Ahmet Bektas | Person | | Türkiye | | instrument |
| Ben | Person | Male | France | | instrument (as “mandole”) |
| אילן בן עמי | Person | | | | instrument |
| Shani Ben-Canar | Person | Male | Israel | | instrument |
| Tarik Benbrahim | Person | | | | instrument |
| Thomas Bienabe | Person | Male | France | | instrument |
| John Bilezikjian | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Γιάννης Μπιθικώτσης | Person | Male | Greece | | instrument |
| Hüseyin Bitmez | Person | Male | Türkiye | | instrument, member of band |
| Mehmet Bitmez | Person | Male | Türkiye | | instrument |
| Mehmet Emin Bitmez | | | | | instrument, member of band |
| Oren Bloedow | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Thomas Moked Blum | Person | Male | Israel | | instrument |
| Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz | Person | Male | United States | | instrument, member of band |
| Biff Blumfumgagnge | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Patrik Bonnet | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| אברי בורוכוב | Person | Male | Israel | | instrument, member of band |
| Jaume Bosser Artal | Person | Male | Spain | | instrument |
| Fadhel Boubaker | Person | Male | Tunisia | | instrument |
| Negar Bouban | Person | Female | Tehran | | instrument, member of band |
| Waed Bouhassoun | Person | Female | France | | instrument |
| Ali Boustan | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Anouar Brahem | Person | Male | Tunisia | 3 | instrument |
| Brahim Brigbane | Person | | | | instrument |
| Errol Bulut | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Tarik Bulut | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Roman Bunka | Person | Male | Germany | | instrument, member of band |
| José Cabral | Person | Male | Spain | | instrument |
| James Carrier | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |