List of ragtime composers
A list of ragtime composers, including one or more famous or characteristic compositions.
Pre-1940
- Felix Arndt,"Desecration Rag", "Nola", "Operatic Nightmare"
- May Aufderheide, "Dusty Rag"
- Roy Bargy, "Pianoflage"
- Harry Belding, "Good Gravy Rag"
- Theron C. Bennett, "The St. Louis Tickle"
- Irving Berlin, "Ragtime Band">Ragtime (musical)">Ragtime Band"
- Jean Schwartz, “April Fool Rag”
- Mike Bernard, "The Ragtime King", "The Battle of San Juan Hill", "Tantalizing Tingles"
- Charlotte Blake, “The Gravel Rag”, "That Poker Rag"
- Eubie Blake, "Charleston Rag", "Chevy Chase", "Fizz Water"
- Rube Bloom, "That Futuristic Rag", "Soliloquy"
- Blind Boone, "Southern Rag Medley No. 2"
- George Botsford, "Black and White Rag", "Grizzly Bear Rag"
- Euday L. Bowman, "Twelfth [Street Rag]"
- Fleta Jan Brown,, "Tanglefoot Rag"
- Brun Campbell, "Barber Shop Rag"
- Hughie Cannon, "(Won't You Come Home) Bill Bailey"
- Louis Chauvin, "Heliotrope Bouquet"
- Axel Christensen, "The Ragtime Wedding March ", "Cauldron Rag"
- Edward B. Claypoole, "Alabama Jigger", "Ragging the Scale", "Spooky Spooks"
- George L. Cobb, "Rubber Plant Rag" "Russian Rag"
- Nellie Weldon Cocroft, "The Pinywoods Rag"
- Zez Confrey, "Kitten on the Keys"
- Les C. Copeland, "French Pastry Rag"
- Irene Cozad, "Affinity Rag"
- Cecil Duane Crabb, "Fluffy Ruffles"
- Ford Dabney, "Oh! You Devil!"
- Reverend Gary Davis, "Italian Rag"
- Claude Debussy, "Golliwogg's Cakewalk" and "Général Lavine"
- Harry Engelman
- James Reese Europe, "Castle House Rag"
- Libbie Erickson, "Topsy: Two Step"
- Ernst Fischer, "Pretty Baby"
- Henry W. Gaul “Motor Boat Rag”
- George Gershwin, "Rialto Ripples"
- Irene Giblin, "Columbia Rag"
- Lucian Porter Gibson, "Jinx Rag"
- George Hamilton Green, "Ragtime Robin"
- Gene Greene, "King of the Bungaloos"
- Clifford Adams “Ink Splotch Rag”
- Charles Roy Cox “Centennial Rag”
- Albert Gumble, "Bolo Rag"
- Harry P. Guy, "Echoes from the Snowball Club"
- Robert Hampton, "Cataract Rag", "Agitation Rag"
- W.C. Handy, "Yellow Dog Rag", "Ole Miss Rag"
- Ben Harney, "You've Been a Good Old Wagon but You Done Broke Down"
- Scott Hayden, "Something Doing"
- Wallie Herzer, "Everybody Two-Step"
- Ernest Hogan, "La Pas Ma La" and "All Coons Look Alike to Me"
- Abe Holzmann, "Smoky Mokes"
- Charles Hunter, "Tickled to Death"
- Harry Jentes, "Bantam Step"
- Charles L. Johnson, "Dill Pickles"
- James P. Johnson, "Carolina Shout"
- Scott Joplin, "Maple Leaf Rag", "The Entertainer", "Pineapple Rag", "Magnetic Rag"
- Joe Jordan, "That Teasin' Rag"
- Verdi Karns, "Bluffton Carnival Rag"
- F. Henri Klickmann, "Knockout Drops", "The Squirrel Rag", "Hysterics Rag"
- Sadie Koninsky, "Eli Green's Cake Walk"
- Max Kortlander, "Deuces Wild"
- William Krell, "Mississippi Rag"
- Joseph Lamb, "American Beauty Rag", "Ragtime Nightingale", "Top Liner Rag", "Bohemia Rag"
- Dominic LaRocca, "Tiger Rag", "The Original Dixieland One Step"
- Grace LeBoy, "Everybody Rag With Me"
- Grace Walls Linn, "Automobile Spin"
- Henry Lodge, "Temptation Rag"
- George Lyons, "Spaghetti Rag"
- Arthur Marshall, "Ham And!",
'The Pippin - Artie Matthews, "Pastime Rag No. 3"
- Billy Mayerl, "The Jazz Master"
- Blind Willie McTell "Southern Can Is Mine"
- Kerry Mills, "At a Georgia Campmeeting"
- Luella Lockwood Moore, "Flamingo: Two-Step"
- Jelly Roll Morton, "Frog-I-More Rag"
- Julia Lee Niebergall, "Hoosier Rag"
- Theodore Havermeyer Northrup, "Louisiana Rag"
- Phil Ohman, "Dixie Kisses"
- Muriel Pollock, "Rooster Rag"
- Paul Pratt, "Colonial Glide", "Hot House Rag"
- Arthur Pryor, "Razzazza Mazzazza"
- Luckey Roberts, "Junk Man Rag"
- Bess E. Rudisill, "The Eight O'Clock Rush"
- J. Russel Robinson, "Sapho Rag"
- Alma Sanders, "Hong Kong"
- Paul Sarebresole, "Roustabout Rag"
- Arthur Schutt, "Bluin' the Black Keys"
- James Scott, "Frog Legs Rag", "Grace and Beauty", "Hilarity Rag", "Ragtime Oriole"
- Adaline Shepherd, "Pickles and Peppers"
- Willie "The Lion" Smith, "Rippling Waters"
- Ted Snyder, "Wild Cherries Rag", "Ramshackle Rag"
- John Philip Sousa, "With Pleasure" and "Willow Blossoms"
- Etilmon J. Stark, "Billiken Rag"
- Nellie Stokes, "Razzle Dazzle: Rag"
- Pauline B. Story, "''Keep A Shufflin’ Ragtime Dance"
- Charley Straight, "Red Raven Rag", "Black Jack Rag", Rufenreddy"
- Igor Stravinsky, "Piano-Rag-Music"
- Robert Morrison Stults, "Walkin' on de Rainbow Road"
- Wilbur Sweatman, "Down Home Rag"
- Charles Hubbard Thompson, "The Lily Rag"
- Harry Tierney, "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
- Tom Turpin, "Harlem Rag", "St. Louis Rag", "Buffalo Rag"
- Fats Waller, "Valentine Stomp"
- Percy Wenrich, "Peaches and Cream", "Skeleton Rag"
- Clarence C. Wiley, "Car-Barlick Acid"
- Carlotta Williamson, "The Pickaninny Cakewalk: Two Step", "Wild flower Rag"
- Clarence Woods, "Slippery Elm Rag", "Sleepy Hollow Rag"
- Calvin Woolsey, "Medic Rag"
- Bob Yosco, "Spaghetti Rag"
- Bob Zurke, "Hobson Street Blues"
Modern ragtime composers (since 1940)
- William Albright, "Brass Knuckles"
- Peter Andersson, "Commonplace Rag"
- Donald Ashwander, "Business in Town", "Old Streets", etc.
- Winifred Atwell, "Britannia Rag", "Let's Have a Party", her version of "Black and White Rag", etc.
- Rami Bar-Niv "Blue-Rag" "Drag-Rag" "Breezy Rider Rag"
- William Bolcom, "The Graceful Ghost"
- Dave Brubeck, "It's a Raggy Waltz"
- Lou Busch, "Carr's Hop"
- Keith Emerson, "Barrelhouse Shakedown"
- Stephen Flaherty, Ragtime
- Frank French, "Belle of Louisville"
- Dick Hyman, "Ragtime Razz Matazz"
- Glenn Jenks, "The Harbour Rag"
- Billy Joel, "Root Beer Rag"
- Elena Kats-Chernin, "Russian Rag"
- Sue Keller, "Cranberry Stomp"
- Koji Kondo, "Athlete's Rag"
- Bill Krenz, "Mud Cat Rag", "Poodle Rag"
- Tom Lehrer, "The Vatican Rag"
- Johnny Maddox, "Friday Night Stomp"
- Paul McCartney, "Martha My Dear", "Honey Pie", "You Gave Me the Answer"
- Max Morath, "One for Amelia", "The Golden Hours", etc.
- Carter Pann, "The Bills"
- David Thomas Roberts, "Roberto Clemente"
- Aaron Robinson, "Bluet Rag"
- Reginald Robinson, "The Strong Man"
- Thomas Shea, "Little Wabash Special"
- Adam Swanson, "Strater Shuffle," "A Novice Novelty," ect.
- Trebor Jay Tichenor, "Bucksnort Stomp"
- Hiromi Uehara, "The Tom and Jerry Show"
- Nobuo Uematsu, "Spinach Rag", "Dark City Treno"
- Kjell Waltman, "Orange Blossoms"
- Chris Ware, "Farewell"
- Ian Whitcomb, "Lawns of Louisiana", "Marzipan", and others
- Dick Zimmerman, "Lost And Found Rag"
- Tom Brier, "Blue Lampshade", "Skunk Hollow Rag", and others