Harlem Renaissance Hall of Fame
Drama
Popular entertainment Cotton Club
- Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr., author of the play, On the Fields of France.
- Charles Gilpin, actor
- Angelina Weld Grimke, author of the drama, Rachel
- Langston Hughes, Mulatto, produced on Broadway. Hughes also helped to found the Harlem Suitcase Theater
- Zora Neale Hurston, author of the play Color Struck
- Georgia Douglas Johnson, author of the play, Plumes, A Tragedy.
- John Matheus, author of the play, 'Cruiter.
- Richard Bruce Nugent, author of the play, Sahdji, an African Ballet.
- Paul Robeson, actor
- Eulalie Spence, author of the play, Undertow.
- Lewis Grandison Alexander, poet
- Gwendolyn Bennett, poet
- Arna Bontemps, poet
- Sterling A. Brown, poet
- Lillian Byrnes, poet
- Joyce Sims Carrington, poet
- Ethel M. Caution, poet
- Anita Scott Coleman, poet
- Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr., poet
- Mae V. Cowdery, poet
- Countee Cullen, poet — The Black Christ and Other Poems (1929)
- Waring Cuney, poet
- Clarissa Scott Delany, poet
- Blanche Taylor Dickinson, poet
- Ruth G. Dixon, poet
- Alice Dunbar-Nelson, poet and fiction writer
- Jessie Redmon Fauset, editor, poet, essayist and novelist
- Angelina Weld Grimke, poet and dramatist
- Gladys May Casely Hayford, poet
- Virginia A. Houston, poet
- Langston Hughes, poet, fiction-writer, essayist, dramatist, autobiographer, editor
- Mary Jenness, poet
- Georgia Douglas Johnson, poet
- Helene Johnson, poet
- James Weldon Johnson, poet, God's Trombones
- Rosalie M. Jonas, poet
- Dorothy Kruger, poet
- Aqua Laluah, poet
- Elma Ehrlich Levinger, poet
- Marjorie Marshall, poet
- Dorothea Mathews, poet
- Bessie Mayle, poet
- Claude McKay, poet and novelist
- May Miller, poet and playwright
- Isabel Neill, poet
- Effie Lee Newsome, poet
- Richard Bruce Nugent, poet
- Esther Popel, poet
- Anne Spencer, poet
- Margaret L. Thomas, poet
- Eloise Bibb Thompson, poet
- Jean Toomer, poet and novelist
- Eda Lou Walton, poet
- Lucy Ariel Williams, poet
- Octavia Beatrice Wynbush, poet
- Kathleen Tankersley Young, poet
- Leading intellectuals
- William Stanley Braithwaite
- Marion Vera Cuthbert
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Marcus Garvey
- Hubert Harrison
- Leslie Pinckney Hill
Popular entertainment Cotton Club
- Apollo Theater
- Black Swan Records
- Small's Paradise
- Connie's Inn
- Harlem Globetrotters
- Speakeasies
- Rent party
- Savoy Ballroom
- Marian Anderson
- Lil Armstrong
- Louis Armstrong
- Ivie Anderson
- Josephine Baker
- Count Basie
- Eubie Blake
- Lucille Bogan
- George Bueno
- Cab Calloway
- The King Cole Trio
- The Chocolate Dandies
- The Dandridge Sisters
- Duke Ellington
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Roland Hayes
- Fletcher Henderson
- Earl "Fatha" Hines
- Billie Holiday
- Lena Horne
- Charlie Johnson
- James P. Johnson
- Lonnie Johnson
- Moms Mabley
- Pigmeat Markham
- The Will Mastin Trio
- McKinney's Cotton Pickers
- Nina Mae McKinney
- Thelonious Monk
- Mantan Moreland
- Jelly Roll Morton
- The Nicholas Brothers
- Ma Rainey
- Nora Douglas Holt Ray
- Bill Robinson
- Cecil Scott
- Noble Sissle
- Bessie Smith
- Mamie Smith
- Victoria Spivey
- William Still
- Billy Strayhorn
- Fats Waller
- Ethel Waters
- Chick Webb
- Bert Williams
- Fess Williams