| [unknown] | Other | Not applicable | [Worldwide] | 4.2 | instrument (as “darbouka”), instrument |
| Mongo Aaltonen | Person | Male | Finland | | instrument |
| Ettamri Abdelaziz | Person | | Morocco | | instrument (as “dumbec”) |
| Bilal Abdurrahman | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Morteza Abedi | Person | Male | Iran | | instrument |
| Tonj Acquaviva | Person | Male | Italy | | instrument (as “darbouka”) |
| Justin Adams | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | instrument |
| Mohamed Agdour | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Henri Agnel | Person | Male | Évreux | | member of band |
| Λευτέρης Αγγουριδάκης | Person | Male | Greece | | instrument (as “darabukka”), instrument (as “toumbeleki”), instrument, member of band (as “toumbeleki”) |
| Salem Mohamed Ahmed | Person | Male | Djibouti | | instrument (as “dumbek”) |
| Mısırlı Ahmet | Person | Male | Türkiye | 4 | instrument |
| Midou Akhrif | Person | | | | instrument |
| Yaşar Akpençe | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| الخليل الحراق | Person | Male | Morocco | | instrument, member of band |
| Omar Saleh Al-Abdi | Person | Male | Kenya | | instrument (as “dharabouka”) |
| Sattar Al-Saadi | Person | Male | Netherlands | | instrument (as “dombak”) |
| Mohammad Al-Sous | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “darrabukka”) |
| Amin Alagabu | Person | | | | instrument |
| Mesut Ali | Person | Male | Türkiye | | instrument |
| Ибрагим Алиев | Person | Male | New York | | instrument |
| Mark Allender | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “dumbek”) |
| Abdulhameed Alwan | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Amir Sofi | | | | | instrument |
| عبد الأحد العامري | Person | Male | | | instrument, member of band |
| Abdessalam Amri | | | | | instrument (as “darbouka”) |
| Anasi Sheembwana Muhaji | Person | Male | Kenya | | instrument (as “dharabouka”) |
| Robin Anders | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “darabouka”), instrument (as “doumbek”), instrument (as “dumbek”) |
| Halmos András | Person | | | | instrument |
| Pris Anzaldúa | Person | | United States | | instrument (as “doumbek”) |
| Bec Applebee | Person | Female | United Kingdom | | instrument (as “darabuka”) |
| Philip Arditti | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | instrument |
| Ashmedi | Person | Male | Israel | | instrument |
| Ardeshir Assadi-Baiki | Person | | | | instrument (as “dumbek”) |
| Natacha Atlas | Person | Female | United Kingdom | | instrument |
| a2c | Person | Male | Japan | 4 | instrument |
| Jamal El Auraoui | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Jace Austin | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Jalmari Auvinen | Person | Male | Finland | | instrument |
| Omer Avci | Person | | | | instrument |
| Adel Awad | Person | Male | Egypt | | instrument |
| Bakaye ag Ayad | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Hayet Ayad | Person | Female | | | instrument |
| Saïd ag Ayad | Person | Male | Mali | | instrument (as “derbouka”) |
| Abdelilah Azlas | Person | | | | instrument |
| Azola | Person | | Iraq | | instrument (as “tapil”) |
| Cabbar Baba | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “doholla”), instrument (as “doumbek”) |
| Valodia Badirov | | | | | instrument |
| אביב בדרי עזרא | Person | Male | Israel | | instrument |
| Ekrem Bağı | Person | Male | Türkiye | | member of band |
| Michiel Bakkes | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Μαθιός Μπαλαμπάνης | Person | Male | Greece | | instrument |
| Τάκης Μπάρμπας | Person | Male | Greece | | instrument |
| Martyn Barker | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | instrument (as “darabouka”) |
| Rony Barrak | Person | Male | Lebanon | | instrument (as “darbouka”), instrument |
| Darcy Bartoletti | Person | | | | instrument |
| רמזי בשאראת | Person | Male | Israel | | instrument |
| Matthias Bautz | Person | Male | | | instrument, member of band |
| Stephen Be | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “dumbeck”) |
| Michael Beach | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “Arabic tabla”) |
| Zoheir Ben Larbi | Person | | | | instrument (as “derbouka”) |
| Aske Døssing Bendixen | Person | Male | Denmark | | instrument |
| Javier Bergia | Person | Male | Madrid | | instrument |
| Diego Bernal | Person | Male | Spain | | member of band |
| Youssef Berrebi | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Paul Bevan | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | instrument |
| John Bilezikjian | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “dumbek”) |
| Chris Birkett | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “darabuka”) |
| Ljubimka Bisserov | Person | | | | instrument (as “tarabuka”) |
| Dirk Bittner | Person | Male | Germany | | instrument |
| Pierre-Guy Blanchard | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Igor Bogoev | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “Darabouka”), instrument |
| Aharon Wheels Bolsta | Person | | | | instrument |
| Richard Bona | Person | Male | Cameroon | 4.35 | instrument |
| Sérgio Boré | Person | Male | Brazil | | instrument (as “darabuka”) |
| Abdelhak Bou Naam | Person | Male | Morocco | | instrument |
| Farhat Bouallagui | Person | | | | instrument |
| Αλέξης Μπουλγουρτζής | Person | Male | Greece | | instrument |
| Pieter Bourke | Person | Male | Australia | | instrument (as “derabukkas (large/small)”) |
| Christopher Brannick | Person | Male | London | | instrument |
| Éric Breton | Person | Male | Montréal | | instrument (as “darbouka”) |
| Rachel Brice | Person | Female | United States | | instrument (as “doumbek”) |
| Robert Brown | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Danny Bryan | Person | | | | instrument |
| Adriano Busko | Person | Male | Brazil | | instrument |
| John Cale | Person | Male | Los Angeles | 5 | instrument (as “dumbek”) |
| Luis Camino | Person | Male | Spain | | instrument |
| Luis Carballo | Person | Male | Spain | | instrument |
| Carlos | Person | | Japan | | instrument |
| Alexandre Carrasco | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “darbouka”) |
| Santiago Castillo | Person | Male | Spain | | instrument |
| Carlos Castro Roig | Person | Male | Spain | | instrument |
| Brad Catler | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “dumbek”) |
| Seyhun Çelik | Person | Male | Türkiye | | instrument |
| Abdellatif Chaarani | | | | | instrument |
| Alfredo Chacón | Person | | | | instrument |
| Alain Chaléard | Person | | | | instrument |
| Amar Chaoui | Person | Male | France | | instrument |
| Simon Charette | Person | Male | Québec | | instrument |
| Ken Chastain | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “darbuca”), instrument (as “dumbek”), instrument |