The invention belongs to an oval sheet beam electron gun, which is used with a travelling wave tube, a backward wave tube and the like. The oval sheet beam electron gun comprises a shell, an electric heating wire in the shell, a cathode component, a focusing electrode component and an anode, wherein an emitting surface of a cathode head of the cathode component is a plane, the focusing electrode component comprises a pyramidal focusing hole, and the anode is positioned at an output port of the shell and provided with an anode hole which is a cylindroid hole. The cathode head is made of lanthanum hexaboride, the emitting surface of the cathode head is modified into a plane, a pyramidal hole with a rectangular axial section is used as the focusing hole, and the cylindroid hole is used as the anode hole, so that the oval sheet beam electron gun has the advantages that the oval sheet beam electron gun is simple in structure and convenient in processing, the precision is easy to be guaranteed, devices are easy to be miniaturized, the production cost is low, current emitted by the cathode head is high in density, operation frequency of the devices and current density of electron beams can be improved effectively, the electron gun is high in output efficiency and long in service life, and the like. The defects of complex structure, low current density and unevenness of the electron beams, high evaporativity and short service life of the cathode in operation at high temperature, and the like in the prior art can be overcome.