Montclair High School

New Jersey · 70 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

Buzz Aldrin b. 1930	Christina Ricci b. 1980	Anne McCaffrey b. 1926
Joe Walsh b. 1947	Richard Wilbur b. 1921	Richard Burgi b. 1958
Hsiao Bi-khim b. 1971	Alex Winter b. 1965	Adam Schlesinger b. 1967
Clarence Birdseye b. 1886	Me'Lisa Barber b. 1980	Ben Rosenfield b. 1992

Occupations

Most common

Occupation	% of its alumni	People
American football player	17.5%	10
actor	11.4%	7
television actor	10.5%	6
film actor	7.2%	4
journalist	7.1%	5
writer	7.0%	6
politician	6.5%	6
novelist	6.1%	5
stage actor	6.0%	3
musician	5.8%	4
businessperson	5.7%	6
singer	5.6%	3
film producer	5.3%	3
record producer	5.3%	3
guitarist	4.9%	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
novelist	3.2×	5
record producer	2.8×	3
guitarist	2.7×	3
businessperson	2.1×	6
stage actor	2.1×	3
journalist	1.8×	5
film producer	1.7×	3
songwriter	1.6×	3

Offices held

Most common

Office	% of its alumni	People
Member of the New Jersey General Assembly	3.5%	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 New Jersey General Assembly	10.7×	3

Sports

Most common

Sport	% of its alumni	People
American football	17.5%	10
baseball	4.8%	4
athletics	4.1%	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
athletics	1.8×	3

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.