Poetry Center) Frances Gillmor, folklorist, scholar, and novelist Anna Katharine Green, poet and novelist Terry Gross, radio personality A. R. Gurney, playwright Richard Hofstadter, historian Karla F.C. Holloway, professor Paul Horgan, historian and author Elbert Hubbard, publisher Bruce Jackson, scholar Thomas Joseph, James Beard Foundation Award winner chef and video host Emma May Alexander Reinertsen, writer, social reformer John Kessel, sci-fi writer Nancy Kress, sci-fi writer Mabel Dodge Luhan, patron of the arts Martha MacCallum, television journalist Norman E. Mack (1856-1932), editor & publisher of the Buffalo Times, chairman of the Democratic National Committee Steele MacKaye, playwright, theatrical producer Marguerite Merington (1857–1951), author Marion Juliet Mitchell, poet Joyce Carol Oates, author John Otto (radio personality) (1929–1999), radio talk show host Laura Pedersen, journalist, novelist, playwright Tim Powers, sci-fi writer Ishmael Reed, poet, essayist Tim Russert, television journalist Joseph Sansonese, author Ruben Santiago-Hudson, playwright, actor Bob Smith (1952–2018), comedian and author Fran Striker, creator of Lone Ranger and Green Hornet Matt Taibbi, journalist Doug Turner (1932-2018), executive editor of the Courier Express, Washington Bureau Chief of the Buffalo News, Olympic rower Mark Twain, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, iconic author Jane Meade Welch, journalist, lecturer Stuart Cary Welch (1928-2008), author and curator of Indian and Islamic Art Lanford Wilson, playwright Bob Wojnowski, sports journalist Julia Evelyn Ditto Young, writer Bands, composers, and musicians Laura Aikin (born 1964), operatic coloratura soprano Michael Angelakos of Passion Pit, singer-songwriter, composer, record producer Harold Arlen, prolific standards composer (500 + Songs), won Academy Award for Over the Rainbow Benny the Butcher, rapper The Bloody Hollies, band Juini Booth, jazz double-bassist Buffalo Bills, barbershop quartet Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (1934–present), classical orchestral symphony The Bunny The Bear, band Julie Byrne, singer-songwriter Cannibal Corpse, band Peter Case, singer-songwriter, guitarist Ray Chamberlain, jazz guitarist, bassist Johny Chow of Stone Sour, bassist Stacy Clark, singer-songwriter Willis Conover, jazz producer and broadcaster Conway the Machine, rapper Patrick Cowley, composer, recording artist Cute is What We Aim For, band Vic Dana, dancer and singer Danimal Cannon, video game composer and performer Lance Diamond, lounge singer and personality Ani DiFranco, singer, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, poet, songwriter Julius Eastman, composer, pianist, singer Every Time I Die, band JoAnn Falletta, classical musician and orchestral conductor Florian-Ayala Fauna, noise musician and music producer Morton Feldman, composer Lukas Foss, composer, pianist, conductor Jackson C. Frank, folk musician Charles Gayle, jazz saxophonist, pianist, bass clarinetist, bassist Girlpope, band