Dancers, choreographers, entertainers[edit]

Josephine Baker

Buddy Bradley (choreographer)
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Billy Pierce (choreographer)

Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson

The Nicholas Brothers

Leonard Harper (producer)
Leading intellectuals[edit]

William Stanley Braithwaite

Cyril Briggs

Marion Vera Cuthbert

Hubert Thomas Delany

W. E. B. Du Bois

Marcus Garvey

L.S. Alexander Gumby, archivist and salon host

Hubert Harrison

Leslie Pinckney Hill

Langston Hughes

James Weldon Johnson

Charles Spurgeon Johnson

Alain Locke

Mary White Ovington

Chandler Owen

A. Philip Randolph

Ruth Logan Roberts

Joel Augustus Rogers

Arthur Schomburg

Carl Van Vechten

Walter Francis White
Authors[edit]

Countee Cullen

Langston Hughes

Zora Neale Hurston

Nella Larsen
Poets[edit]

Lewis Grandison Alexander

Gwendolyn Bennett

Arna Bontemps

Sterling A. Brown

Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr.

Mae V. Cowdery

Countee Cullen – The Black Christ and Other Poems(1929)

Clarissa Scott Delany

Alice Dunbar-Nelson

Jessie Redmon Fauset

Angelina Weld Grimke

Robert Hayden

Gladys May Casely Hayford

Virginia Houston

Langston Hughes

Georgia Douglas Johnson

Helene Johnson

James Weldon Johnson – God's Trombones

Claude McKay

May Miller

Effie Lee Newsome

Richard Bruce Nugent

Esther Popel

Anne Spencer

Jean Toomer

Lucy Ariel Williams

Kathleen Tankersley Young
Drama[edit]

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.

Richard Bruce Nugent, author of the play Sahdji, an African Ballet

Paul Robeson, actor

Eulalie Spence, author of the play Undertow

Krigwa Players, popular Harlem theatre group.

Thomas Montgomery Gregory, supporter of Negro Theatre Movement.
Novels[edit]

Arna Bontemps — God Sends Sunday (1931), Black Thunder (1936)

Countee Cullen — One Way to Heaven (1932)

Jessie Redmon Fauset — There is Confusion (1924), Plum Bun (1928), The Chinaberry
Tree (1931), Comedy, American Style (1933)

Rudolph Fisher — The Walls of Jericho (1928), The Conjure-Man Dies (1932)

Langston Hughes — Not Without Laughter (1930)

Zora Neale Hurston — Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934), Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

Nella Larsen — Quicksand (1928), Passing (1929)

Claude McKay — Home to Harlem (1927), Banjo (1929), Gingertown (1931), Banana
Bottom (1933)

George Schuyler — Black No More (1931), Slaves Today (1931)

Wallace Thurman — The Blacker the Berry (1929), Infants of the Spring (1932), Interne (1932)

Jean Toomer — Cane (1923)

Carl Van Vechten — Nigger Heaven (1926)

Walter White — The Fire in the Flint (1924), Flight (1926)
Short story collections[edit]

Eric Walrond — Tropic Death (1926)
Musicians and composers[edit]

Marian Anderson

Louis Armstrong

Ivie Anderson

Count Basie

Gladys Bentley

Eubie Blake

Lucille Bogan

Cab Calloway

The King Cole Trio

The Chocolate Dandies

The Dandridge Sisters and Dorothy Dandridge

Duke Ellington

Ella Fitzgerald

Dizzy Gillespie

Adelaide Hall

Roland Hayes

Fletcher Henderson

Earl "Fatha" Hines

Billie Holiday

Lena Horne

James P. Johnson

Lonnie Johnson

Moms Mabley

Pigmeat Markham

The Will Mastin Trio

McKinney's Cotton Pickers

Nina Mae McKinney

Florence Mills

Thelonious Monk

Mantan Moreland

Jelly Roll Morton

Ma Rainey

Nora Douglas Holt Ray

Cecil Scott

Noble Sissle

Bessie Smith

Mamie Smith

Victoria Spivey

William Grant Still

Billy Strayhorn

Fats Waller

Ethel Waters

Chick Webb

Bert Williams

Fess Williams
Visual artists[edit]

Charles Alston

Henry Bannarn

Romare Bearden

Leslie Bolling, Wood carvings

Beauford Delaney

Aaron Douglas

Palmer Hayden

Sargent Johnson

William H. Johnson, Painter

Lois Mailou Jones

Jacob Lawrence

Norman Lewis, Artist

Archibald Motley

Augusta Savage

Prentiss Taylor
Popular entertainment venues[edit]

Apollo Theater

Black Swan Records

Connie's Inn

Cotton Club

Harlem Globetrotters

Lafayette Theatre (Harlem)

Lenox Lounge

Rent parties

Savoy Ballroom

Speakeasies