| 100% | ELLINGTON | 9 | Duke ___, "Money Jungle" composer who was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize Special Citation |
| 81% | GEORGE | 6 | ___ Gershwin, "Rhapsody in Blue" composer who was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize Special Citation |
| 74% | MONK | 4 | Thelonious ___, "Round Midnight" musician who was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize Special Citation |
| 74% | FRANKLIN | 8 | Aretha ___, "Respect" singer who was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize Special Citation |
| 58% | DYLAN | 5 | Bob ___, "Mr. Tambourine Man" singer who was awarded a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation |
| 54% | ARETHAFRANKLIN | 14 | "Respect" singer who was posthumously awarded a 2019 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation: 2 wds. |
| 52% | JOHNCOLTRANE | 12 | "Blue Train" jazz saxophonist who was posthumously awarded a 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation: 2 wds. |
| 51% | HANKWILLIAMS | 12 | "Your Cheatin' Heart" singer who was posthumously awarded a 2010 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation: 2 wds. |
| 47% | LAMAR | 5 | Kendrick ___, "Money Trees" rapper who was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Music |
| 42% | IDA | 3 | ___ B. Wells, African-American civil rights leader who was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize special citation |
| 40% | SAGAN | 5 | Carl ___, astrophysicist who was the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize and multiple Emmy Awards |
| 34% | TONI | 4 | Morrison who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom |
| 33% | EDITH | 5 | Wharton who was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction |
| 33% | ZAPPA | 5 | Frank who was honored with a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997 |
| 33% | MENOTTI | 7 | Italian-American composer who won a Pulitzer Prize for "The Saint of Bleecker Street" |
| 32% | AGEE | 4 | He won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1958 |
| 32% | TESH | 4 | Composer who was a CBS reporter |
| 31% | RUBINSTEIN | 10 | Polish-born musician who was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom |
| 31% | MORENO | 6 | Rita who was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004 |
| 31% | ANSEL | 5 | Adams who was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980 |
| 30% | PAT | 3 | Coach Summitt who was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012 |
| 30% | MENDEZ | 6 | Civil rights activist Sylvia who was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom |
| 30% | BRUCE | 5 | Jack ___, Cream bassist who was awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006 |
| 29% | PAT | 3 | Former basketball coach Summitt who was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012 |
| 29% | ELIOT | 5 | T.S. ___ who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 29% | MERIT | 5 | Pulitzer Prize is awarded for this in literature |
| 29% | ROREM | 5 | Composer who won a Pulitzer for "Air Music" |
| 29% | ALISONBECHDEL | 13 | "Fun Home" author and cartoonist who was awarded a "genius grant" in 2014: 2 wds. |
| 29% | SYLVIAPLATH | 11 | American poet and novelist who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for "The Collected Poems" in 1982: 2 wds. |
| 29% | OKLAHOMA | 8 | Musical awarded a special Pulitzer in 1944 |