Lawrenceville School

New Jersey · 72 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

Edward Albee b. 1928	George Akerlof b. 1940	Joakim Noah b. 1985
Aldo Leopold b. 1887	Ricardo Maduro b. 1946	Huey Lewis b. 1950
Malcolm Forbes b. 1919	Michael Eisner b. 1942	Dierks Bentley b. 1975
Charles Chaplin b. 1925	Robert Walker Jr. b. 1940	James Merrill b. 1926

Occupations

Most common

Occupation	% of its alumni	People
journalist	19.0%	8
basketball player	13.0%	3
writer	12.0%	11
university professor	11.9%	10
politician	10.9%	14
businessperson	5.1%	6
socialite	4.5%	3
lawyer	4.3%	7
poet	3.9%	4
actor	3.2%	3
film actor	3.2%	3
art collector	2.2%	3
diplomat	1.1%	3
military officer	1.1%	3
judge	1.0%	3

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
socialite	20.9×	3
art collector	11.6×	3
university professor	4.5×	10
poet	4.5×	4
journalist	3.5×	8
diplomat	2.1×	3
writer	1.9×	11
businessperson	1.8×	6

Awards

Most common

Award	% of its alumni	People
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences	3.5%	4
Guggenheim Fellowship	3.4%	3

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
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences	7.0×	4
Guggenheim Fellowship	2.6×	3

Offices held

Most common

Office	% of its alumni	People
United States representative	4.0%	4
Member of the State Senate of New Jersey	0.9%	3

Most overrepresented

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

Office	× the national rate	People
Member of the State Senate of New Jersey	6.1×	3
United States representative	2.2×	4

Sports

Most common

Sport	% of its alumni	People
basketball	13.2%	4
American football	3.6%	3

Most overrepresented

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

Sport	× the national rate	People

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.