Upper Gulf Coast
- Hill, George Alfred, Jr.
- Hirsch, Maurice
- Hill, Maurice Cameron
- Hobby, William Pettus
- Hogg, Ima
- Hogg, William Clifford
- Holcombe, Oscar Fitzallen
- Holman, James Sanders
- Horn, Paul Whitfield
- House, Edward Mandell
- House, Thomas William
- Hobby, Oveta Culp
- Hofheinz, Roy Mark
- Hopkins, Sam [Lightnin']
- Holland, Clarence St. Elmo
- Hollimon, Milton Howard Clarence
- Holland, William Sylvester [Babe]
- Horwitz, Will
- Huggins, William Ogburn
- Hughes, Isaac
- Humphreys, Ezekial
- Hutcheson, Joseph Chappell, Jr.
- Hutcheson, Joseph Chappell
- Hutchins, William J.
- Hughes, Howard Robard, Jr.
- Hughes, Joe [Guitar]
- Husk, Zilpha
- Ideson, Julia Bedford
- Irby, Francis Gerald [Jerry]
- Jaworski, Leon
- Jacquet, Jean-Baptiste [Illinois ]
- Jacquet, Russell
- Japhet, Isidore
- Jemison, James Hudson
- Johnston, Ralph A.
- Johnston, Rienzi Melville
- Jones, Dudley William
- Jones, Jesse Holman
- Jones, Mary Smith
- John, Grace Zillah Briggs Spaulding
- Johnson, George [Bud]
- Jordan, Barbara Charline
- Johnson, Conrad O. [Prof]
- Jones, Gaynell Griffin
- Johnson, Evelyn Joyce
- Kamrath, Karl Fred
- Lieberman, Harry A. [Larry Kane]
- Kay, Savannah Harris
- Keane, John Joseph
- Kessler, Henry