We classify, up to orbit equivalence, all cohomogeneity one actions on the hyperbolic planes over the complex, quaternionic and Cayley numbers, and on the complex hyperbolic spaces CHn, n >= 3. For the quaternionic hyperbolic spaces HHn, n >= 3, we reduce the classification problem to a problem in quaternionic linear algebra and obtain partial results. For real hyperbolic spaces, this classi. cation problem was essentially solved by Elie Cartan.