List of ragtime composers

A list of ragtime composers, including one or more famous or characteristic compositions.

Pre-1940

 * Felix Arndt (1889–1918),"Desecration Rag" (1914), "Nola" (1916), "Operatic Nightmare" (1916)
 * May Aufderheide (1888–1972), "Dusty Rag" (1908)
 * Roy Bargy (1894–1974), "Pianoflage" (1922)
 * Harry Belding (1882–1931), "Good Gravy Rag" (1913)
 * Theron C. Bennett (1879–1937), "The St. Louis Tickle" (1904)
 * Irving Berlin (1888–1989), "Alexander's Ragtime Band" (1911)
 * Charlotte Blake (1885–1979), "That Poker Rag" (1909)
 * Eubie Blake (1887–1983), "Charleston Rag" (1903), "Chevy Chase" (1914), "Fizz Water" (1914)
 * Rube Bloom (1902–1976), "That Futuristic Rag" (1923), "Soliloquy" (1926)
 * Blind Boone (1864–1927), "Southern Rag Medley No. 2" (1909)
 * George Botsford (1874–1949), "Black and White Rag" (1908), "Grizzly Bear Rag" (1910)
 * Euday L. Bowman (1887–1949), "Twelfth Street Rag" (1914)
 * Fleta Jan Brown, (1882–1938), "Tanglefoot Rag" (1907)
 * Brun Campbell (1884–1952), "Barber Shop Rag"
 * Hughie Cannon (1877–1912), "(Won't You Come Home) Bill Bailey" (1902)
 * Louis Chauvin (1881–1908), "Heliotrope Bouquet" (1907)
 * Axel Christensen (1881–1955), "The Ragtime Wedding March (Apologies to Mendelssohn)" (1902), "Cauldron Rag" (1909)
 * Edward B. Claypoole (1883-1952), "Alabama Jigger" (1913), "Ragging the Scale" (1915), "Spooky Spooks" (1916)
 * George L. Cobb (1886–1942), "Rubber Plant Rag" (1909) "Russian Rag" (1918)
 * Nellie Weldon Cocroft (1885–1986), "The Pinywoods Rag" (1909)
 * Zez Confrey (1895–1971), "Kitten on the Keys" (1921)
 * Les C. Copeland (1887–1942), "French Pastry Rag" (1914)
 * Irene Cozad (1888–1970), "Affinity Rag" (1910)
 * Cecil Duane Crabb (1890–1953), "Fluffy Ruffles" (1907)
 * Ford Dabney (1883–1958), "Oh! You Devil!" (1910)
 * Reverend Gary Davis (1896–1972), "Italian Rag"
 * Claude Debussy (1862–1918), "Golliwogg's Cakewalk" and "Général Lavine"
 * James Reese Europe (1880–1919), "Castle House Rag"
 * Libbie Erickson (1875–1938), "Topsy: Two Step" (1904)
 * Ernst Fischer (1900–1975), "Pretty Baby"
 * George Gershwin (1898–1937), "Rialto Ripples" (1917)
 * Irene Giblin (1888–1974), "Columbia Rag" (1910)
 * Lucian Porter Gibson (1890–1959), "Jinx Rag" (1911)
 * George Hamilton Green (1893–1970), "Ragtime Robin"
 * Gene Greene (1877–1930), "King of the Bungaloos" (1911)
 * Albert Gumble (1883–19946), "Bolo Rag" (1908)
 * Harry P. Guy (1870–1950), "Echoes from the Snowball Club" (1898)
 * Robert Hampton (1890–1945), "Agitation Rag" (1915)
 * Ben Harney (1871–1938), "You've Been a Good Old Wagon but You Done Broke Down" (1896)
 * Scott Hayden (1882–1915), "Something Doing" (1903)
 * Wallie Herzer (1885–1961), "Everybody Two-Step"
 * Ernest Hogan (1865–1909), "La Pas Ma La" and "All Coons Look Alike to Me"
 * Abe Holzmann (1874–1939), "Smoky Mokes" (1899)
 * Charles Hunter (1876–1906), "Tickled to Death" (1899)
 * Harry Jentes (1887–1958), "Bantam Step" (1916)
 * Charles L. Johnson (1876–1950), "Dill Pickles" (1906)
 * James P. Johnson (1891–1955), "Carolina Shout" (1925)
 * Scott Joplin (1868–1917), "Maple Leaf Rag" (1899), "The Entertainer" (1902), "Pineapple Rag" (1908), "Magnetic Rag" (1914)
 * Joe Jordan (1882–1971), "That Teasin' Rag" (1909)
 * Verdi Karns (1882–1925), "Kentucky Rag" (1898)
 * F. Henri Klickmann (1885-1966), "Knockout Drops" (1910), "The Squirrel Rag" (1913), "Hysterics Rag" (1914)
 * Sadie Koninsky (1879–1952), "Eli Green's Cake Walk" (1898)
 * Max Kortlander (1890–1961), "Deuces Wild" (1923)
 * William Krell (1868–1933), "Mississippi Rag" (1897)
 * Joseph Lamb (1887–1960), "American Beauty Rag" (1913), "Ragtime Nightingale" (1915), "Top Liner Rag" (1916), "Bohemia Rag" (1919)
 * Dominic LaRocca (1889-1961), "Tiger Rag" (1917), "The Original Dixieland One Step" (1917)
 * Grace LeBoy (1890–1983), "Everybody Rag With Me" 1914
 * Grace Walls Linn (1874–1940), "Automobile Spin" 1899
 * Henry Lodge (1884–1933), "Temptation Rag" (1909)
 * George Lyons (1889–1958), "Spaghetti Rag" (1910)
 * Arthur Marshall (1881–1968), "Ham And!" (1908)
 * Artie Matthews (1888–1958), "Pastime Rag No. 3" (1916)
 * Billy Mayerl (1902–1959), "The Jazz Master" (1925)
 * Blind Willie McTell (1898–1959) "Southern Can Is Mine" (1931)
 * Kerry Mills (1869–1948), "At a Georgia Campmeeting" (1897)
 * Luella Lockwood Moore (aka "Marion Arlington") (1864–1927), "Flamingo: Two-Step" (1910)
 * Jelly Roll Morton (1890–1941), "Frog-I-More Rag" (1918)
 * Julia Lee Niebergall (1886–1968), "Hoosier Rag" (1907)
 * Theodore Havermeyer Northrup (1866–1919), "Louisiana Rag" (1897)
 * Phil Ohman (1896–1954), "Dixie Kisses"
 * Muriel Pollock (1895–1970), "Rooster Rag" (1917)
 * Paul Pratt (1890–1948), "Colonial Glide" (1910), "Hot House Rag" (1914)
 * Arthur Pryor (1870–1942), "Razzazza Mazzazza" (1905)
 * Luckey Roberts (1887–1968), "Junk Man Rag" (1913)
 * Bess E. Rudisill (1884–1957), "The Eight O'Clock Rush" (1911)
 * J. Russel Robinson (1892–1963), "Sapho Rag" (1909)
 * Alma Sanders (1882–1956), "Sleepytime Rag: Pickaninny Lullaby" (1914)
 * Paul Sarebresole (1875–1911), "Roustabout Rag" (1897)
 * Arthur Schutt (1902–1965), "Bluin' the Black Keys" (1926)
 * James Scott (1885–1938), "Frog Legs Rag" (1906), "Grace and Beauty" (1909), "Ragtime Oriole" (1911)
 * Adaline Shepherd (1883–1950), "Pickles and Peppers" (1906)
 * Willie "The Lion" Smith (1897–1973), "Rippling Waters"
 * Ted Snyder (1881–1965), "Ramshackle Rag" (1911)
 * John Philip Sousa (1854–1932), "With Pleasure" (1912) and "Willow Blossoms" (1916)
 * Etilmon J. Stark (1867–1962), "Billiken Rag" (1913)
 * Nellie Stokes (1880–1914), "Razzle Dazzle: Rag" (1909)
 * Pauline B. Story (1870–1952), "Keep A Shufflin’ Ragtime Dance" (1905)
 * Charley Straight (1891–1940), "Red Raven Rag" (1915), "Black Jack Rag" (1917), Rufenreddy" (1917/1922)
 * Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971), "Piano-Rag-Music" (1919)
 * Robert Morrison Stults (1861–1933), "Walkin' on de Rainbow Road" (1899)
 * Wilbur Sweatman (1882–1961), "Down Home Rag" (1911)
 * Charles Hubbard Thompson (1891–1964), "The Lily Rag" (1914)
 * Harry Tierney (1890–1965), "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1911)
 * Tom Turpin (1873–1922), "Harlem Rag" (1897), "St. Louis Rag" (1903)
 * Fats Waller (1904–1943), "Valentine Stomp" (1929)
 * Percy Wenrich (1880–1952), "Peaches and Cream" (1905), "Skeleton Rag" (1911)
 * Clarence C. Wiley (1883–1908), "Car-Barlick Acid" (1901)
 * Carlotta Williamson (1869–1957), "The Pickaninny Cakewalk: Two Step" (1901), "Wild flower Rag" (1910)
 * Clarence Woods (1888–1956), "Slippery Elm Rag" (1912)
 * Calvin Woolsey (1884–1946), "Medic Rag" (1910)
 * Bob Yosco (1889–1958), "Spaghetti Rag" (1910)
 * Bob Zurke (1912-1944), "Hobson Street Blues" (1938)

Modern ragtime composers (since 1940)

 * William Albright (1944–1998), "Brass Knuckles"
 * Luca Allegranza (born 2003), "Pipe Dreams Rag"
 * Peter Andersson (born 1968), "The River Boat Slow Drag"
 * James F. Andris (born 1938), "The St. Louis Zoo Rag"
 * Donald Ashwander (1929–1994), "Business in Town", "Old Streets", etc.
 * Winifred Atwell (1914–1989), "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" "Plain Ol' Rag" "Shmateh-Rag"
 * Tom Brier (born 1971) "Wellington Rag" (1991), "Redneck Rag" (2008)
 * William Bolcom (born 1938), "The Graceful Ghost"
 * Sune "Sumpen" Borg (1931–2002), "Ylva Rag"
 * Dave Brubeck (1920–2012), "It's a Raggy Waltz" (1961)
 * Lou Busch (1910–1979), "Carr's Hop" (1952)
 * Bill Edwards (born 1959), "Hanon Rag", "Blood on the Keys", etc.
 * Keith Emerson (1944–2016), "Barrelhouse Shakedown"
 * Stephen Flaherty (born 1960), Ragtime
 * Frank French (born 1952), "Belle of Louisville"
 * Ragnar Hellspong (born 1944), "Rag's Rag"
 * Dick Hyman (born 1927), "Ragtime Razz Matazz" (1958)
 * Hal Isbitz (born 1931), "Chandelier Rag"
 * Glenn Jenks, "The Harbour Rag"
 * Billy Joel (born 1949), "Root Beer Rag" (1974)
 * Elena Kats-Chernin (born 1957), "Russian Rag"
 * Sue Keller (born 1952), "Cranberry Stomp"
 * James LeGrand King III (born 1968), "Biltmore Syncopations", "Whitehead Street Rag", "Zig-Zag Alley Rag", "Professor King's Celebrated All-Purpose Exceptional Invigorating Effectactious Good-Time Spirited Composition for the Modern Piano-Forte", "Major-Minor Rag"
 * Koji Kondo (born 1961), "Athlete's Rag" (1990)
 * Bill Krenz (1899–1980), "Mud Cat Rag" (1953), "Poodle Rag" (1954)
 * Florian Krueger (born 1993), "Hok Him Rag", "Futuristic Kitten", "Inshoku-ten"
 * Tom Lehrer (born 1928), "The Vatican Rag"
 * Peter Lundberg (born 1942), "Gothenburg Rag"
 * Johnny Maddox, "Friday Night Stomp"
 * Paul McCartney (born 1942), "Martha My Dear", "Honey Pie" (1968), "You Gave Me the Answer" (1975)
 * Oleg Mezjuev (born 1966), "Café Parisién"
 * Max Morath (1926–2023), "One for Amelia", "The Golden Hours", etc.
 * Gary Noland (born 1957), "Grand Rag Brillante", "Nerdfox Rag", "Ragbones", "Russell Street Rag"
 * Carter Pann (born 1972), "The Bills"
 * David Thomas Roberts (born 1955), "Roberto Clemente"
 * Aaron Robinson (born 1970), "Bluet Rag"
 * Reginald Robinson (born 1972), "The Strong Man"
 * Cameron Lee Simpson (born 2001) "Watermelon Rag" (2017), "Wild Cherries Rag" (2019), "Christmas Rag" (2020)
 * Thomas Shea (1931–1982), "Little Wabash Special"
 * Joakim Stenshäll (1962–2009), "Entropy Rag"
 * Trebor Jay Tichenor (1940–2014), "Bucksnort Stomp"
 * Hiromi Uehara (born 1979), "The Tom and Jerry Show" (2003)
 * Nobuo Uematsu (born 1959), "Spinach Rag" (1994), "Dark City Treno" (2000)
 * Kjell Waltman (born 1960), "Orange Blossoms"
 * Chris Ware (born 1967), "Farewell"
 * Ian Whitcomb (1941–2020), "Lawns of Louisiana", "Marzipan" and others
 * Vincent Wilson (born 2007), "Morning Glories" (Lost Scott Joplin Rag completed in 2021), "Lundenburg Rag" (2021), "Vanilla Rag" (2021)
 * Dick Zimmerman (born 1937), "Lost And Found Rag"