Victor Lemonte Wooten (born September 11, 1964 in Hampton, Virginia) is an electric bass guitar player. He is highly regarded among his musical peers for his extraordinary technical virtuosity and his skills as musician and composer.

Wooten has won the "Bass Player of the Year" award from Bass Player Magazine three times in a row, and was the first person to win the award more than once.

The youngest of five brothers, he was taught by his older brother Regi to play bass at age two, and by age five Victor could hold simple bass lines and play gigs. The Wooten Brothers band (Regi, Rudy, Roy, Joseph and Victor) played for many years in the 1970s around Williamsburg, Virginia as well as opening up for Curtis Mayfield and War. Victor also played bass in the country show at Busch Gardens before moving to Nashville. While in Virginia, Victor met his longtime wife, Holly.

After moving to Nashville, Tennessee in 1988 Victor was immediately recruited by blues and soul singer Jonell Mosser. A year later he was hired by banjo maestro Béla Fleck, along with keyboardist and harmonica player Howard Levy and Victor's brother Roy Wooten (a.k.a. Future Man). Their group, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, became famous first by playing a mixture of jazz, funk, and bluegrass, then later becoming one of the most stylistically free-swinging bands of the modern era. (Levy eventually left the group and was replaced by saxophonist and horn virtuoso Jeff Coffin.)

Wooten has been a member of several fusion and progressive supergroups, including Bass Extremes (with Steve Bailey, Derico Watson and Oteil Burbridge), the Vital Tech Tones (with Scott Henderson and Steve Smith), the indian jazz fusion band PRASANNA, and the "Extraction" trio (with Greg Howe and Dennis Chambers). He recorded with renowned Cape Breton fiddler Natalie MacMaster on her 2003 album Blueprint. Victor has also been on tour with many other bands including the Dave Matthews Band.

Victor currently tours with his solo group, and still with Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. He resides near Nashville, Tennessee with his wife and four children.

Discography

• A Show of Hands (1996)
• What Did He Say? (1997)
• Yin-Yang (1999)
• Live In America (2001)
• Soul Circus (2005)