Lusitano, Vicente (?–after 1561)
Sancho, Ignatius (1729–1780)
Boulogne, Joseph Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745–1799)
Garcia, José Maurício Nunes (1767–1830)
Johnson, Francis (1792–1844)
Connor, Aaron J. R. (d. 1850)
Hazzard, Isaac (1804–c.1864)
Williams, Henry F. (1813–1903)
Holland, Justin (1819–1887)
Dédé, Edmond (1827–1901)
Postlewaite, Joseph W. (b. 1827)
Lambert, Charles Lucien (1828–1896)
Lambert, Sidney (1831–1905)
White, Joseph (José Silvestre) (1835–1918)
Gomes, Antônio Carlos (1836–1896)
Barès, Basile (1845–1902)
Bland, James A. (1845–1911)
Douglass, John Thomas (1847–1886)
Gonzaga, Chiquinha (1847–1935)
Jiménez, José Manuel (1851–1917)
Carreño, Teresa (1853–1917)
Lambert, Lucien-Léon Guillaume (1858–1945)
Davis, Gussie (1863–1899)
Arnold, Maurice (1865–1937)
Burleigh, Harry T. (1866–1949)
Joplin, Scott (1867–1917)
Dédé, Eugène (1867–1919)
Cole, Bob (1868–1911)
Cook, Will Marion (1869–1944)
Freeman, Harry Lawrence (1869–1954)
Johnson, John Rosamond (1873–1954)
Handy, W. C. (1873–1958)
Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel (1875–1912)
Ricketts, Estelle (b. 1877–?)
White, Clarence Cameron (1880–1960)
Europe, James Reese (1881–1919)
Dett, R. Nathaniel (1882–1943)
Ponce, Manuel (1882–1948)
Aldridge, Amanda (1886–1956)
Yamada, Kōsaku (1886–1965)
Price, Florence (1887–1953)
Abelardo, Nicolar (1893–1934)
Moore, Undine Smith (1904–1989)
Xinghai, Xian (1905–1945)
Bonds, Margaret (1913–1972)
Perry, Julia (1924–1979)
King, Betty Jackson (1928–1994)
Logan, Wendell (1940–2010)
Moore, Dorothy Rudd (b. 1940)
Chen Yi (b. 1953)