List of figures from the Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance, also known as the New Negro Movement, was a cultural, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, New York, and spanning the 1920s. This list includes intellectuals and activists, writers, artists, and performers who were closely associated with the movement.
Intellectuals, activists, journalists
Writers
- Lewis Grandison Alexander
- Sterling A. Brown
- Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr.
- Countee Cullen
- Alice Dunbar-Nelson
- Jessie Redmon Fauset
- Rudolph Fisher
- Edythe Mae Gordon
- Eugene Gordon (writer)
- Angelina Weld Grimke
- Robert Hayden
- Gladys May Casely Hayford
- Ariel Williams Holloway
- Langston Hughes
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Georgia Douglas Johnson
- Helene Johnson
- James Weldon Johnson
- Nella Larsen
- Claude McKay
- May Miller
- Effie Lee Newsome
- Richard Bruce Nugent
- Esther Popel
- George Schuyler
- Eulalie Spence
- Anne Spencer
- Wallace Thurman
- Jean Toomer
- Carl Van Vechten
- Eric Walrond
Performers and entertainers
- Josephine Baker
- Anise Boyer
- Charles Sidney Gilpin
- Adelaide Hall
- Nina Mae McKinney
- Mantan Moreland
- Krigwa Players
- Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
- Nicholas Brothers
- Paul Robeson
- Tip, Tap and Toe
- The Four Step Brothers
Musicians and composers
- Marian Anderson
- Louis Armstrong
- Count Basie
- Gladys Bentley
- Eubie Blake
- Cab Calloway
- The Chocolate Dandies
- Dorothy Dandridge
- Duke Ellington
- Adelaide Hall
- Roland Hayes
- Fletcher Henderson
- Billie Holiday
- Lena Horne
- Hall Johnson
- James Price Johnson
- Moms Mabley
- Pigmeat Markham
- Florence Mills
- Jelly Roll Morton
- Ma Rainey
- Noble Sissle
- Bessie Smith
- Victoria Spivey
- William Grant Still
- Fats Waller
- Ethel Waters
- Chick Webb
- Bert Williams
- Fess Williams
Visual artists
- Charles Alston
- Henry Bannarn
- Richmond Barthé
- Romare Bearden
- Leslie Bolling, wood carvings
- Miguel Covarrubias, caricaturist
- Beauford Delaney
- Aaron Douglas
- Edwin A. Harleston
- Palmer Hayden
- Sargent Johnson
- William H. Johnson (painter)
- Lois Mailou Jones
- Jacob Lawrence
- Norman Lewis (artist)
- Archibald Motley
- Augusta Savage
- James Van Der Zee
- Meta Warrick Fuller
- Laura Wheeler Waring
- Hale Woodruff