diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 10933867a..45888e18b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## Unreleased
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Fixed highlighting of Windows paths in tracebacks. https://github.com/Textualize/rich/pull/3734
+
 ## [14.0.0] - 2025-03-30
 
 ### Added
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.md b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
index 9893915a4..cc5a55a92 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ The following people have contributed to the development of Rich:
 - [Paul McGuire](https://github.com/ptmcg)
 - [Antony Milne](https://github.com/AntonyMilneQB)
 - [Michael Milton](https://github.com/multimeric)
+- [Zoltan Nagy](https://github.com/abesto)
 - [Martina Oefelein](https://github.com/oefe)
 - [Nathan Page](https://github.com/nathanrpage97)
 - [Dave Pearson](https://github.com/davep/)
diff --git a/rich/traceback.py b/rich/traceback.py
index b2cc63040..677938200 100644
--- a/rich/traceback.py
+++ b/rich/traceback.py
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ class Trace:
 
 
 class PathHighlighter(RegexHighlighter):
-    highlights = [r"(?P<dim>.*/)(?P<bold>.+)"]
+    highlights = [r"(?P<dim>.*(/|\\))(?P<bold>.+)"]
 
 
 class Traceback:
diff --git a/tests/test_traceback.py b/tests/test_traceback.py
index bc9bc91e9..3425b6ea2 100644
--- a/tests/test_traceback.py
+++ b/tests/test_traceback.py
@@ -6,8 +6,9 @@
 import pytest
 
 from rich.console import Console
+from rich.text import Span
 from rich.theme import Theme
-from rich.traceback import Traceback, install
+from rich.traceback import install, PathHighlighter, Traceback
 
 
 def test_handler():
@@ -373,3 +374,18 @@ def test_notes() -> None:
         traceback = Traceback()
 
         assert traceback.trace.stacks[0].notes == ["Hello", "World"]
+
+
+def test_path_highlighter() -> None:
+    """Check that PathHighlighter correctly highlights both win32 and *nix paths"""
+    path_highlighter = PathHighlighter()
+
+    assert path_highlighter("/foo/bar/baz").spans == [
+        Span(0, 9, "dim"),
+        Span(9, 12, "bold"),
+    ]
+
+    assert path_highlighter("'\\\\?\\C:\\foo\\bar\\baz").spans == [
+        Span(0, 16, "dim"),
+        Span(16, 19, "bold"),
+    ]