List of ragtime composers

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