– saxophonist, arranger, composer, jazz educator
Kevin Moore – original keyboardist for Dream Theater
Bob McChesney – studio and jazz trombonist
Chris Poland, 1981 – Guitar player for heavy metal band Megadeth
Stephen Roessner, 2004 – Grammy Award-winning recording engineer/producer
Gar Samuelson, 1982 – Drummer for heavy metal band Megadeth
=== Politics, government and law ===
Marcus M. Drake, 1852 – Mayor of Buffalo, 1882
Paul Cambria, 1969 – First Amendment lawyer
William Conrad III, 2000- member of the New York State Assembly
Reuben Fenton – U.S. Senator and Governor of New York State from 1865 to 1868 (Attended part of a term at Fredonia Academy)
James Brendan Foley, 1979 – Diplomat, served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Haiti, and as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Croatia
Ozra Amander Hadley – Governor of the State of Arkansas from 1871 to 1873
Robert Spitzer, 1975 – political scientist
Frank Manly Thorn, lawyer, politician, government official, essayist, journalist, humorist, and inventor, …
