Stuyvesant High School

New York · 304 alumni prominent enough for Wikipedia. Tables below need at least 5 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

James Cagney b. 1899	Samuel P. Huntington b. 1927	Lucy Liu b. 1968
Edward Sapir b. 1884	Tim Robbins b. 1958	Joseph L. Mankiewicz b. 1909
Thelonious Monk b. 1917	Robert Fogel b. 1926	Richard Axel b. 1946
Joshua Lederberg b. 1925	Roald Hoffmann b. 1937	Ben Gazzara b. 1930

Occupations

Most common

Occupation	% of its alumni	People
university professor	16.4%	50
writer	13.8%	42
actor	10.2%	31
mathematician	9.9%	30
journalist	9.5%	29
television actor	8.2%	25
politician	7.9%	24
film actor	7.2%	22
lawyer	6.6%	20
screenwriter	6.6%	20
physicist	4.9%	15
film director	4.6%	14
stage actor	4.6%	14
novelist	4.3%	13
film producer	4.3%	13

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
mathematician	24.2×	30
anthropologist	12.3×	6
sociologist	11.4×	5
physicist	10.2×	15
computer scientist	8.0×	11
university professor	6.7×	50
researcher	6.6×	6
photographer	5.2×	10
economist	4.5×	6
historian	3.8×	9
engineer	3.5×	8
physician	3.2×	5
director	2.8×	10
author	2.8×	6
novelist	2.5×	13

Employers

Most common

Employer	% of its alumni	People
Columbia University	3.9%	12
Harvard University	3.0%	9
Princeton University	2.6%	8
Cornell University	2.6%	8
University of California, Berkeley	2.6%	8
New York University	2.3%	7
University of Chicago	2.3%	7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	2.0%	6
Yale University	1.6%	5
Stanford University	1.6%	5

Most overrepresented

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

Employer	× the national rate	People
Cornell University	24.2×	8
Columbia University	12.6×	12
University of California, Berkeley	12.1×	8
New York University	11.4×	7
Princeton University	11.1×	8
University of Chicago	10.8×	7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	7.8×	6
Stanford University	7.3×	5
Yale University	6.7×	5
Harvard University	5.0×	9

Awards

Most common

Award	% of its alumni	People
Guggenheim Fellowship	9.2%	28
Fellow of the American Physical Society	3.3%	10
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society	3.3%	10
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame	3.3%	10
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science	2.3%	7
National Medal of Science	2.0%	6
MacArthur Fellows Program	1.6%	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
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society	39.2×	10
Fellow of the American Physical Society	17.8×	10
National Medal of Science	12.1×	6
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science	8.0×	7
Guggenheim Fellowship	6.4×	28
MacArthur Fellows Program	6.2×	5
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame	3.0×	10

Offices held

Most common

Office	% of its alumni	People
United States representative	1.6%	5
member of the New York State Assembly	1.6%	5

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 York State Assembly	6.5×	5

Sports

Most common

Sport	% of its alumni	People
basketball	2.3%	7

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.