stained glass window at the First Presbyterian Church Some people of note who were born in Lockport are: •
Kim Alexis,
supermodel •
Walter Ransom Gail Baker, former vice president of
General Electric, director of engineering for the
Radio Manufacturers Association, founder of
NTSC •
Philip Baruth, writer and politician •
George W. Batten, former New York State Treasurer •
Anna Smeed Benjamin (1834–1924), social reformer •
Holly Broadbent Sr., orthodontist •
Lillian Bronson, film/TV character actress •
Ellen Burrell, professor of mathematics at
Wellesley College •
Bernard Buzyniski, retired
American Football League player •
Helen Stuart Campbell, social reformer and home economist •
Jerry Cook, race car driver •
Francis R. Delano, banker and lawyer •
Geoffrey Deuel, actor •
Lyman Draper, secretary for the
Wisconsin Historical Society,
Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin •
M. A. B. Evans, poet •
David Fluellen, pro football player •
Ferrin Fraser, radio script writer for
Little Orphan Annie and
Frank Buck •
Harold Huston George, general officer in the United States Army Air Forces during
World War II •
Lt Col William G. Gregory, astronaut (ret.) in the
NASA Space Shuttle program •
Katherine Hannigan, writer •
Tommy Hicks, boxer •
Alice Tisdale Hobart, novelist •
William Leonard Hunt (1838–1929), also known by the stage name the Great Farini, tightrope performances at Niagara Falls, inventor of the "
human cannonball" •
James Jackson, Jr., former US congressman, Mayor of Lockport •
Sean Kugler, head coach for the
UTEP Miners football team •
William F. Leonard, Medal of Honor recipient •
Duane Lyman, architect •
Jane Rignel, Recipient of the
Silver Star •
Othniel Charles Marsh, 19th-century paleontologist, discovered and named many fossils found in the American West •
Timothy McVeigh, convicted terrorist responsible for
Oklahoma City bombing •
Stephanie Miller, nationally syndicated radio talk show host and daughter of William E. Miller •
William E. Miller, 1964 vice presidential running mate of
Barry Goldwater •
William G. Morgan, inventor of
volleyball •
John Murphy,
Buffalo Bills radio announcer •
Edwin Griswold Nourse, economist •
Joyce Carol Oates, author and professor •
Frank C. Penfold, artist, teacher •
Cuthbert W. Pound, former Chief Judge of the
New York Court of Appeals •
John J. Raskob, DuPont and General Motors executive •
John B. Raymond, delegate from
Dakota Territory to the
United States House of Representatives •
Chris Sacca, tech start-up venture capitalist, former Head of Special Initiatives at
Google •
John Shulock, retired MLB umpire •
Clip Smith, talk radio host •
Mark Snell, retired professional soccer player, former coach •
Brandon Stickney, journalist, author, and documentarian •
Daren Stone, professional football player •
Robert Thurston, science fiction writer •
Jack White, race car driver •
Charley Wood, amusement park developer •
Brock Yates, automotive writer and author, senior editor of
Car and Driver magazine, wrote story and scripts for movies
The Cannonball Run and
Smokey & the Bandit 2 Some people of note who have resided in Lockport are: •
Maltbie Davenport Babcock, clergyman •
John J. Bagley, former governor of Michigan •
Raphael Beck (1848–1947), artist, sculptor •
John Beilein, former collegiate and professional basketball coach •
John Black, former mayor of
Milwaukee •
William W. Campbell, former New York state senator •
Lot Clark, former US congressman •
Richard Crowley, former US congressman •
Oliver Dyer, first Congressional shorthand reporter •
Brent Nicholson Earle, AIDS activist •
Lewis Eaton, former US congressman •
Timothy E. Ellsworth, former New York state senator •
Thomas T. Flagler, former US congressman •
David Gibson, Canadian politician •
Geoffrey Giuliano, author, actor and syndicated radio host •
William G. Gregory, NASA astronaut •
Herbert C. Harrison, sometimes credited with the invention of the modern honeycomb automobile
radiator and founder of Harrison Radiator, now a part of General Motors' components division •
William Hawley,
Union Army Brigadier General •
Birdsill Holly, inventor, credited with inventing the first integrated fire hydrant system along with 150 U.S. patents, many related to the Holly Steam Combination Company •
Mark Hopkins, Jr., 1813–1878, lawyer and businessman who lived in Reynales Basin (east of Gasport in Niagara County) and later Lockport from c. 1829 to c. 1848; eventually became one of the "Big Four" of California (i.e. The Central Pacific Railroad) with partners Stanford, Crocker, and Huntington that was formed in 1861 •
Washington Hunt, former governor of New York •
Michael Huskey,
Medal of Honor recipient •
Tom Jolls, TV weatherman •
William R. Kenan, Jr., businessman •
Benajah Mallory,
Upper Canada political figure •
William E. Miller, American prosecutor at
Nuremberg War-Crimes trials; member of
United States House of Representatives 1951–1965;
Republican National Committee Chairman 1961–1964;
Republican Party Vice President nominee on 1964
Goldwater-Miller ticket; only
practicing Catholic to be nominated for national office by the party until
Paul Ryan in 2012; later starred in
American Express "Do you know me?" commercials •
Charles F. Mitchell, former US congressman •
Aaron Albert Mossell, first African American to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania Law School •
Jeremy O'Day, retired CFL player •
Chauncey Olcott, stage actor and songwriter, known for the ballad "
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling"; Olcott spent summers as a youth in Lockport in an "Irish shanty" with his maternal grandmother •
Charles Gilbert Peterson, former mayor and contractor •
Gilbert Peterson, contractor of multiple waterworks and reservoirs projects along with expansion of the Erie Canal; superintendent of both the Western and Eastern divisions of the Erie Canal •
Jesse Peterson, presidential elector and industrialist, president of the United Indurated Fibre Company •
Lyman C. Pettit, founder and first president of the
Pentecostal Collegiate Institute (now
Eastern Nazarene College) •
Thomas Stinson,
Hamilton, Ontario, businessman • The
Seven Sutherland Sisters, long-haired singing group traveling with
Barnum and Bailey's "Greatest Show on Earth" •
Burt Van Horn, former US congressman •
Thomas Wall, Wisconsin businessman and state legislator •
Samuel Works, former New York state senator ==Notable businesses==