Albert Fransella (17 March 1865 – 7 March 1935) was a virtuoso flutist and principal flutist of Dutch and British orchestras between 1880 and 1925.

Fransella was born in Amsterdam of Dutch parentage but Swiss extraction. His mother died when Fransella was just one year old. Fransella only had one lung. Despite this, he learnt to play the flute, and piano, from his father Jacob, a professor of music, and Jacques de Jong, flautist to the King of Holland. At fifteen he appeared at a concert given for Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and was, at that time, second flute in one of the Amsterdam Orchestras. A year later he was appointed as first flute with the Utrecht Orchestra. In 1881 he played for Johannes Brahms, who was enthusiastic about Fransella's playing, saying that a brilliant career lay before the youth. He came to England from The Netherlands in 1884 at the age of nineteen when he was appointed as principal flautist with the Scottish Orchestra, Glasgow. He first appeared in London under Jules Riviere's Promenade Concerts at Covent Garden.

In 1888 he returned to Holland to join the newly formed Concertgebouw in Amsterdam as their first solo flautist. He performed no less than eleven times as solo flautist with the orchestra under Willem Kes, playing such repertoire as Doppler's L'oiseau des bois, op. 21, for flute and four horns, Saint-Saëns's Tarantella, Joachim Andersen's Wien Neerlands bloed, op. 35 (Fantasy on a Dutch folk hymn), and Edward de Jong's Faust Fantasy. He returned to England in late 1891.

He then became the leading player in England, replacing Oluf Svendsen when he retired as first flute in the Crystal Palace Orchestra in 1892(at the time the only full-time symphony orchestra in London), before he was invited to become first flute in Henry Wood's newly founded Queen's Hall Orchestra in 1895. He later became the principal flute of the Philharmonic Society Orchestra, playing with them until 1925 when he was succeeded by Robert Murchie. In 1893 he began teaching at the Guildhall School of Music in London. He was a professor there until 1915. He also taught at Trinity College of Music in London. Amongst his students was Gerald Jackson, who was first flute in the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Sir Thomas Beecham. He also taught Ary van Leeuwen, Emil Medicus, Marguerite de Forest-Anderson, Edgar Hunt, Joseph Emile Slater and Holger Gilbert-Jespersen.

Fransella had the distinction of being a soloist at the first Henry Wood Promenade concert on 10 August 1895, playing two movements from the Suite de Trois Morceaux by Benjamin Godard. In the same year, he commissioned the instrument makers Rudall Carte & Co., to make him a gold flute. He first used the new flute at a recital at the Queen's Hall in 1896. He played at the Promenade concerts no less than 356 times from 1895 until 1918, becoming one of the players that the audience liked to spot and personally welcome to the stage.

In 1898 Fransella organised a concert at the Queen's (small) Hall to show off four flutes which he had commissioned from Rudall Carte. At the concert, the Fransella Flute Quartet premiered two works by Thomas Harrison Frewin, a composer and the first violin in Henry Wood's Queens' Hall Orchestra. The concert also included new works by Ernesto Köhler and Albert Ketèlbey. In 1900 and 1901 as conductor, musical director and manager of the summer theatre at Ranelagh Gardens, Felixstowe, he directed his own series of promenade concerts with his own orchestra.

He played with the Queen's Hall Wind Quintet, founded in 1902 alongside Désiré Lalande (oboe), Manuel Gomez (clarinet), Frederick James (bassoon) and Adolf Borsdorf (horn).

Fransella was to give and present many first performances of works by the twentieth century's great composers. On 13 March 1899, at an Albert Fransella Chamber Concert, there was the first performance of Delius’s Seven Songs from the Norwegian, at the Queen's (Small) Hall with Minna Fischer.