I like all kinds of banjo music. I like tenor banjo and plectrum style as well as five sting all styles.

Art Mooney would qualify as well as Harry Reser. They all had hits.
Tom Dooley by the KT would have to qualify as well as Weavers Top of Old Smokey and Erik Darling with the Tarriers doing the Banana Boat Song in which Erik does a banjo solo that got lots of air play.

There was a group or was it a tune called Washington Square which featured a banjo solo.

Eddie Peabody was popular at one time. He was a showman banjo player with lots of tricks. His disciple Perry Bechtel was a better player, though but less known although he was responsible for the extended frets on the Martin Guitars.

Django Reinhardt started out on the 6th string banjo but didn't popularize it the way he did the guitar. I'm not sure there are any Django recordings with him playing 6-string banjo.

Frank