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. Residents of Buffalo are commonly referred to as Buffalonians. Architects Louise Blanchard Bethune (1856–1915) Gordon Bunshaft (1909–1990), Pritzker Prize winner Robert T. Coles (1929–2020) William Harrison Folsom (1815–1901), designed the Manti Temple E. B. Green (1855–1950) James A. Johnson (1865–1939) Duane Lyman (1886–1966) Richard A. Waite (1848–1911) Artists Cory Arcangel (born 1978), new media artist Jeffrey Jones (born 1946), actor Timothy D. Bellavia (born 1971), children's author, illustrator and educator Charles E. Burchfield (1893–1967), watercolor painter Philip Burke (born 1956), caricaturist John F. Carlson (1875–1947), American Impressionist Charles Clough (born 1951), painter Tony Conrad (1940–2016), media artist Steve Fiorilla (1961–2009), illustrator and sculptor Frank Kelly Freas (1922–2005), science fiction and fantasy artist Wilhelmina McAlpin Godfrey (1914–1994), painter, printmaker and fiber artist Grace Knowlton (1932–2020), sculptor Justine Kurland (born 1969), photographer J. J. Lankes (1884–1960), illustrator, woodcut print artist, and author Sylvia Lark (1947–1990), Seneca painter, printmaker Robert Longo (born 1953), painter and sculptor Asad Raza (born 1974), artist, producer, writer Michael Ross (1955), artist Spain Rodriguez (1940–2012), underground cartoonist Milton Rogovin (1909–2011), documentary photographer Charles Rohlfs (1853–1936), actor, pattern maker, stove designer and furniture maker Paul Sharits (1943–1993), mixed media artist, filmmaker Cindy Sherman (born 1954), photographer and film director Chrysanne Stathacos (born 1951), print, textile, performance, and conceptual artist. Tony Sisti (1901–1983), painter Eugene Speicher (1883–1962), portrait, landscape and figurative painter Tom Toles (born 1951), political cartoonist William Simpson (portrait artist) (c.1818–1872) was an African American artist and civil right activist in the 19th century, known for his portraits. Adam Zyglis (born 1982), editorial cartoonist Authors and journalists Marty Angelo, author 10 books John Arcudi, comic book author John Barth, novelist Gary Barwin, Irish writer Charles Baxter, author Lauren Belfer, author Wolf Blitzer, television journalist Lawrence Block, crime novelist Lucille Clifton, poet Howard Bloom, publicist Dale Brown, aviator and author William Wells Brown, abolitionist and writer Taylor Caldwell, author J. M. Coetzee, South African writer Angelo F. Coniglio, civil engineer and author Burton Crane, financial journalist Robert Creeley, poet Marvin Farber, philosopher Marian de Forest, journalist and playwright Gregg Easterbrook, magazine journalist Leslie Fiedler, literary critic F. Scott Fitzgerald, novelist Josh Fruhlinger (The Comics Curmudgeon) Dawn Gallagher author, beauty and wellness expert Alice Gerard journalist and peace activist Loss Pequeño Glazier, poet (Electronic