Great Southern Lumber Company, Goodyear Lumber Co., Buffalo & Susquehanna Coal and Coke Co., and the New Orleans Great Northern Railroad Company Wilson Greatbatch, inventor and engineer Arthur Hayes, entrepreneur, and co-founder and former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX George A. Hormel, founder of Hormel Foods Corporation Jeremy Jacobs, current owner of the Boston Bruins and Chairman of Delaware North Sidney Janis, writer, art dealer and collector, founder of Sidney Janis Gallery John J. Kennedy, businessman and politician Seymour H. Knox I, founder of the F. W. Woolworth Company Seymour H. Knox II, Chairman of the F. W. Woolworth Company John D. Larkin, founder of the Larkin Company and Buffalo Pottery/Buffalo China Jon L. Luther, Chairman and former CEO of Dunkin' Brands Sherman J. Maisel, economist who served on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Darwin D. Martin, Larkin Company executive John R. Oishei, co-founder of the Tri-Continental Corporation, now known as Trico Ralph Peo (1897–1966), inventor, founder of Frontier Industries, CEO & Chairman of Houdaille Industries Pat Powers, film producer associated with Walt Disney Robert E. Rich, Sr., founder of Rich Products Chris Sacca, billionaire venture capitalist Grace Carew Sheldon (1855–1921), American journalist, author, editor, businesswoman Ellsworth Milton Statler, founder of Statler Hotels Henry Wells, co-founder of American Express Company and Wells Fargo John G. Wickser, President of the Buffalo German Insurance Company and the Buffalo Commercial Insurance Company Robert G. Wilmers, former chairman and CEO of M&T Bank Christopher Woodrow, co-founder and Chairman of Worldview Entertainment Entertainers and actors Stephanie Allynne, actress Jacob Artist, actor Nick Bakay, voice actor Darrell Banks, singer Christine Baranski, actress Michael Bennett, choreographer and director Amanda Blake, actress John Wayne Bobbit, actor Sorrell Booke, actor David Boreanaz, actor Kyle Chandler, actor Katharine Cornell, actress William Courtleigh, Jr., silent-film actor Don Criqui, sportscaster Andrew Dan-Jumbo, television personality Jeffrey DeMunn, actor Diane English, television producer Agnes Ethel, 19th-century actress Jeff Fahey, actor Gary Farmer, actor Morton Feldman, composer William Fichtner, actor Tom Fontana, screenwriter and producer Vincent Gallo, actor and director Nyakim Gatwech, model Teddy Geiger, singer-songwriter David Hampton, impostor who posed as Sidney Poitier's son in 1983, which inspired the play and film Six Degrees of Separation Patrick Hasburgh, writer producer Mark Hapka, actor, Days Of Our Lives Edna Indermaur, classical singer Marc Evan Jackson, actor Rick James, singer-songwriter Gloria Jean, singer and actress Beverly Johnson, model Jeffrey Jones, actor Daniel