| [unknown] | Other | Not applicable | [Worldwide] | 4.2 | instrument (as “5 dundun”), instrument (as “dundun”) |
| Michelle Abu | Person | Female | Brazil | | instrument |
| Kofi Ackah | Person | Male | Canada | | instrument |
| Idris Ackamoor | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Alex Acuña | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Obo Addy | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “donno”) |
| Simeon Adeleke | | | | | instrument (as “lead talking drum”) |
| Sikiru Adepoju | Person | Male | Nigeria | | instrument (as “backing talking drum”), instrument (as “talking drums”), instrument |
| Abraham Kobena Adzenyah | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “donno”) |
| Mustafa Alabi | Person | Male | Nigeria | | instrument (as “dundun”) |
| Rasaki Alakodun | Person | | | | instrument (as “2nd talking drum”), instrument (as “lead talking drum”), instrument |
| Mesut Ali | Person | Male | Türkiye | | instrument |
| Maartin Allcock | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | instrument |
| Agarfa Amartey | Person | | | | instrument |
| Stiuiws Aniyikaye | Person | | | | instrument |
| John Anthony | Person | Male | Philadelphia | | instrument |
| Sergio Armaroli | Person | Male | Milano | | instrument |
| Issac Asante | Person | Male | Ghana | | instrument |
| Okyerema Asante | Person | Male | Ghana | | instrument (as “talking drums”) |
| Francis Awe | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Victor Axelrod | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Tunde Ayandosu | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “gangan”), instrument (as “iyaalu”) |
| Sunday Ayangoke | Person | Male | Nigeria | | instrument (as “omele”) |
| Sulaiman Ayantade | Person | Male | Nigeria | | instrument (as “gangan”) |
| Gboyega Ayanwale | Person | Male | Nigeria | | instrument (as “omele”) |
| Badu Ndjay | Person | Male | Finland | | instrument |
| Erykah Badu | Person | Female | United States | 4.5 | instrument (as “talking drums”), instrument |
| Richard Olatunde Baker | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | member of band (as “Adamo”) |
| Barou | Person | Male | Mali | | instrument (as “tama”) |
| Pierre Bastien | Person | Male | France | 5 | instrument |
| Muruga Booker | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Sérgio Boré | Person | Male | Brazil | | instrument |
| Pete Brown | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | instrument |
| Glen Browne | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Kirk Bruner | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Roger Burmester | Person | Male | Brazil | | instrument |
| Frank Byng | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | instrument |
| Ibrahima Camara | Person | | Senegal | | member of band (as “tama”) |
| Juldeh Camara | Person | Male | Gambia | | instrument |
| Sidi Mohamed “Joh” Camara | Person | Male | Boston | 5 | instrument (as “tama”) |
| Frank Charles | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Mino Cinelu | Person | Male | France | 5 | instrument |
| Moustapha Cissé | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Baba Cissoko | Person | | | | instrument |
| Gordon 'Nappy G' Clay | Person | Male | Hamburg | | instrument |
| Vicente Climent | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Ray Cooper | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | instrument |
| Boghan Costa | Person | Male | Brazil | | instrument |
| Paulinho da Costa | Person | Male | Brazil | | instrument |
| Steven Cragg | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Joe Craven | Person | Male | United States | 5 | instrument |
| Andrew Cyrille | Person | Male | United States | 5 | instrument |
| Kwaku Daddy | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Eric Darken | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “talkin' drum”) |
| Hermann Delago | Person | Male | Austria | | instrument |
| Nankoua Dembélé | Person | Male | Burkina Faso | | instrument (as “dumazo”) |
| Seloyi Dembélé | Person | Male | Burkina Faso | | instrument (as “dumazo”) |
| Dennis | | | | | instrument |
| Drissa Diabaté | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Ali Diarra | Person | | | | instrument (as “tama”) |
| Aïyb Dieng | Person | Male | Senegal | | instrument |
| Adama Diop | Person | Male | | | member of band |
| Assane Diop | Person | Male | Senegal | | instrument (as “tama”) |
| Idrissa Diop | Person | Male | France | | instrument (as “talkin drum”), instrument |
| Massamba Diop | Person | Male | Senegal | | instrument (as “Tama”), instrument (as “tama”), instrument |
| Massire Drame | Person | Male | Senegal | | instrument (as “tama”) |
| Michel Dupirre | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Brad Dutz | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Epizo Bangoura | | | | | instrument |
| Erik Forsmark | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Tom Excell | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | instrument |
| Jim Fairchild | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Magette Fall | Person | | | | instrument |
| Aliounne Faye | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “tama”) |
| Babacar Faye | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “tam”) |
| Victor Feldman | Person | Male | United Kingdom | 5 | instrument |
| Thomas Feterman | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “tama”) |
| Fred Fleck | Person | | | | instrument |
| Murray Foster | Person | Male | Canada | | instrument |
| Angela Frontera | Person | Female | | | instrument (as “talking drums”) |
| Francis Fuster | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | instrument |
| Malando Gassama | Person | Male | Sweden | | instrument |
| Jimoh Gbadamosi | Person | | | | instrument |
| Genshin Folk Ensemble | Group | | | | instrument |
| Tino di Geraldo | Person | Male | Spain | | instrument |
| Harry “The Hipster” Gibson | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Milford Graves | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “african talking drum”), instrument |
| Bamba Gueye | | | | | instrument |
| Mikó György | Person | | | | instrument |
| Joni Haastrup | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Simone Haggiag | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Paul Hankin | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Juuso Hannukainen | Person | Male | Finland | | instrument |
| Scott Hartley | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Tomoyuki Haruyama | | | | | instrument |
| Tommy Hayes | Person | | Ireland | | instrument |
| Mattias Helldén | Person | | | | instrument (as “dondos”) |
| Jay Hoggard | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Hasse Horrigmoe | Person | Male | Norway | | instrument |
| Richard Howell | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “dun dun”) |