List of people from Buffalo, New York
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A list of people who are from or have lived in Buffalo, New York. Individuals are listed in alphabetical order by last name in each category.
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[edit] Architects
[edit] Artists
- Cory Arcangel
- Timothy D. Bellavia
- Charles E. Burchfield
- John F. Carlson
- Charles Clough
- Steve Fiorilla
- Kelly Freas
- Robert Longo
- Mark Miremont
- Spain Rodriguez
- Milton Rogovin
- Charles Rohlfs
- Cindy Sherman
- Tony Sisti
- Eugene Speicher
- Tom Toles
[edit] Authors and journalists
- Marty Angelo
- John Barth
- Gary Barwin
- Charles Baxter
- Lauren Belfer
- Wolf Blitzer
- Lawrence Block
- Howard Bloom
- Dale Brown
- William Wells Brown
- Taylor Caldwell
- J. M. Coetzee
- Burton Crane
- Robert Creeley
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Leslie Fiedler
- Josh Fruhlinger (The Comics Curmudgeon)
- Anna Katharine Green
- Terry Gross
- A. R. Gurney
- Richard Hofstadter
- Paul Horgan
- Elbert Hubbard
- John Kessel
- Nancy Kress
- Mabel Dodge Luhan
- Steele MacKaye
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Tim Powers
- Ishmael Reed
- Tim Russert
- Ruben Santiago-Hudson
- Matt Taibbi
- Mark Twain
- Fran Striker
- Lanford Wilson
[edit] Bands, composers, and musicians
- Michael Angelakos of Passion Pit
- Harold Arlen
- The Bloody Hollies
- Buffalo Bills (quartet)
- The Bunny The Bear
- Peter Case
- Cannibal Corpse
- Cute is What We Aim For
- Vic Dana
- Lance Diamond
- Ani DiFranco
- Doe Boy Choch
- Every Time I Die
- JoAnn Falletta
- Morton Feldman
- Lukas Foss
- The Future
- Girlpope
- Goo Goo Dolls
- Green Jellÿ
- Jim Hall
- Mick Hayes
- Alan Heatherington
- Ray Henderson
- It Dies Today
- Jackdaw
- Joe Public
- Rick James
- Margot Lane
- Mel Lewis
- John Lombardo (alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs, folk duo John & Mary)
- Gary Mallaber
- Brian McKnight
- Don Menza
- Mercury Rev
- The Modernaires
- moe.
- Gurf Morlix
- Willie Nile
- Ookla the Mok (band)
- Tina Parol
- Mary Ramsey (alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs, folk duo John & Mary)
- Raven (U.S. band)
- The Reign of Kindo
- Billy Sheehan
- Dr. Lonnie Smith
- Snapcase
- Spyro Gyra
- Stemm
- Stevie J.
- John Stevens
- Elizabeth Swados
- Stan Szelest
- Talas
- Three Man
- Towpath
- Tugboat Annie
- John Valby
- Grover Washington, Jr.
- Cory Wells
- Patrick Wilson
- Jack Yellen
[edit] Business and industry
- William H. Donaldson
- Joseph Ellicott
- William G. Fargo
- Wilson Greatbatch
- George A. Hormel
- Jeremy Jacobs
- John J. Kennedy
- Seymour H. Knox I
- Seymour H. Knox II
- Sherman J. Maisel
- Jon L. Luther
- Pat Powers
- Robert E. Rich, Sr.
- Ellsworth Milton Statler
- Henry Wells
- John G. Wickser
- Robert G. Wilmers
[edit] Entertainers and actors
- Nick Bakay
- Christine Baranski
- Michael Bennett
- Amanda Blake
- Sorrell Booke
- David Boreanaz
- Foster Brooks
- Kyle Chandler
- Katharine Cornell
- Don Criqui
- Andrew Dan-Jumbo
- Jeffrey DeMunn
- Agnes Ethel
- Diane English
- Morton Feldman
- William Fichtner
- Tom Fontana
- Vincent Gallo
- Teddy Geiger
- Rick James
- Jeffrey Jones
- Rachael Lillis
- Wendie Malick
- Gary Mallaber
- Nancy Marchand
- Jesse L. Martin
- Bill Mazer
- Brian McKnight
- Don Messick
- David Milch
- Greg Mullavy
- Chad Michael Murray
- Willie Nile
- Chelsea Noble
- Beth Phoenix
- Angelea Preston
- Joey Reynolds
- Mark Russell
- William Sadler
- John Schuck
- Dick Shawn
- Billy Sheehan
- Buffalo Bob Smith
- April Stevens
- Fran Striker
- Nino Tempo
- James Watson
- Cory Wells
- Jessica White
- James Whitmore
- Jack Yellen
- Z. Mann Zilla
[edit] Military
- John Basilone Medal of honor recipient
- Frank Gaffney Medal of honor recipient
- Benjamin Kaufman Medal of honor recipient
- C. Wade McClusky United States Navy aviator
- Frederick E. Toy Medal of honor recipient, orderly to Theodore Roosevelt
- Matt Urban Medal of honor recipient
- Warren Muck 101st Airborne Division (Band of Brothers)
[edit] Politics and law
- Neil Abercrombie
- John Basilone
- John P. Bobo
- Shirley Chisholm
- Frances Folsom Cleveland First Lady of the United States
- Grover Cleveland 22nd and 24th President of the United States
- William “Wild Bill” Joseph Donovan Medal of honor recipient
- Matt Louis Urban
- William Dorsheimer
- Abigail Fillmore First Lady of the United States
- Caroline Fillmore
- Millard Fillmore 13th President of the United States
- Ronald Fino
- James D. Griffin
- Mark Grisanti
- Rami Hanash
- Jack Kemp
- Henry J. Nowak
- Frank H. Easterbrook
- Ely S. Parker
- Peter Buell Porter
- John Roberts
- Col. John B. Weber
[edit] Religion, charities, social advocacy
- Marty Angelo
- Nelson Baker
- Rosalie Bertell
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
- Kevin Gaughan
- Sister Karen Klimczak
- Isaac Klein
- Aaron Krolikowski
- Maggie Kuhn
- John Neumann
- Marvin Opler
- Morris Opler
- Red Jacket
- Mary Burnett Talbert
[edit] Science and technology
- Willis Carrier
- Bruce Kershner
- Edward Gibson
- Wilson Greatbatch
- Herbert Hauptman
- Herman Hollerith
- James Pawelczyk
- Alfred Southwick
- Cliff Stoll
- Craig Venter
[edit] Sports
- Kevyn Adams
- Adrian Adonis
- Jimmy Arias
- Tom Baker
- Dick Beyer
- Jack Brownschidle
- Jim Burt
- Al Cervi
- Jon Corto
- Don Curtis
- Brian Dux
- Joe Ehrmann
- Elizabeth Kocianski Carolan
- Jeffrey Float
- Jonny Flynn
- Nick Foligno
- Lazar Hayward
- Paul Harris
- Orel Hershiser
- Joe Hesketh
- Dave Hollins
- Ron Jaworski
- Patrick Kaleta
- Patrick Kane
- Jim Kelly
- Tim Kennedy
- Seymour H. Knox III
- Todd Krygier
- Christian Laettner
- Bob Lanier
- Mark Lewin
- Lex Luger
- Don Majkowski
- Mike Mamula
- Todd Marchant
- Phil McConkey
- Marc Mero
- Joe Mesi
- Aaron Miller
- Greg Oden
- Brooks Orpik
- Larry Pfohl
- Ron Pitts
- Kevin Quick
- Clifford Ralph Robinson
- Naaman Roosevelt
- Roy Saari
- Philippe Sauvé
- Jimmy Slattery
- Warren Spahn
- Lee Stempniak
- Steve Tasker
- Josh Thomas
- Thurman Thomas
- Ward Wettlaufer
- Mary Wittenberg
- Ron Wolfley
- Craig Wolfley
- Jim Malone[disambiguation needed
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