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California · 68 alumni prominent enough for Wikipedia. Tables below need at least 3 people before a trait can appear.

All of history equally The last decade or two Recent decades The last half-century

The era pills change the weighting: "recent decades" (the default) counts someone who graduated around 2010 far more than someone from 1940.

Prominent alumni

Anatolii Hrytsenko b. 1957	Sylvia Day b. 1973	David Glantz b. 1942
Eric T. Olson b. 1952	Michael B. Donley b. 1952	Bruce Perry Crandall b. 1933
Leo J. Dulacki b. 1918	Michael Patrick Flanagan b. 1962	Nathan Sivin b. 1931
Yıldırım Aktuna b. 1930	Barry McCaffrey b. 1942	Ken Lunde b. 1965

Occupations

Most common

Occupation	% of its alumni	People
military officer	22.8%	13
politician	12.9%	12
writer	12.8%	5
soldier	9.0%	3
military personnel	6.0%	10
novelist	4.5%	4
linguist	3.9%	3
historian	3.3%	4
lawyer	2.6%	3
university professor	2.3%	6

Most overrepresented

"3×" = this school's noted alumni are three times as likely to have this occupation as noted high-school alumni nationally.

Occupation	× the national rate	People
linguist	27.6×	3
soldier	24.4×	3
military officer	16.7×	13
military personnel	5.9×	10
historian	4.8×	4
novelist	2.0×	4
writer	1.7×	5

Awards

Most common

Award	% of its alumni	People
Legionnaire of Legion of Merit	26.6%	17
Bronze Star Medal	14.4%	12
Air Medal	6.2%	4
Silver Star	1.1%	5
Purple Heart	0.9%	5

Most overrepresented

"3×" = this school's noted alumni are three times as likely to have this award as noted high-school alumni nationally.

Award	× the national rate	People
Legionnaire of Legion of Merit	60.3×	17
Air Medal	21.7×	4
Bronze Star Medal	20.7×	12
Silver Star	8.7×	5
Purple Heart	2.6×	5

Notes for the methodologically curious. Shares and multiples use recency weighting (people who came of age recently count more, per the era pills) and shrinkage: each school gets 20 virtual alumni at national rates, so a school with 4 noted alumni can't post a 200× multiple. High-school data on Wikidata is far sparser than college data — a missing trait usually means Wikipedia editors didn't record it, not that no alumnus has it.