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
writer	14.0%	42
actor	12.7%	31
television actor	11.5%	25
journalist	11.3%	29
university professor	9.9%	50
novelist	6.9%	13
film actor	6.4%	22
physicist	6.3%	15
computer scientist	5.5%	11
screenwriter	5.0%	20
stage actor	4.9%	14
mathematician	4.8%	30
politician	4.4%	24
researcher	4.3%	6
businessperson	3.7%	9

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
physicist	24.4×	15
mathematician	17.9×	30
sociologist	10.1×	5
researcher	9.8×	6
anthropologist	9.2×	6
computer scientist	9.1×	11
historian	8.9×	9
university professor	8.2×	50
author	5.4×	6
novelist	5.4×	13
journalist	3.3×	29
director	3.1×	10
writer	3.0×	42
physician	2.5×	5
judge	2.3×	7

Employers

Most common

Employer	% of its alumni	People
Columbia University	5.2%	12
New York University	2.4%	7
Princeton University	1.9%	8
University of Chicago	1.7%	7
Harvard University	1.2%	9
University of California, Berkeley	1.0%	8
Yale University	0.8%	5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	0.6%	6
Cornell University	0.5%	8
Stanford University	0.2%	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
Columbia University	34.4×	12
University of Chicago	20.1×	7
Princeton University	16.5×	8
New York University	15.4×	7
Cornell University	12.4×	8
University of California, Berkeley	9.9×	8
Yale University	8.0×	5
Harvard University	4.6×	9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	4.5×	6
Stanford University	1.8×	5

Awards

Most common

Award	% of its alumni	People
Guggenheim Fellowship	4.9%	28
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science	1.5%	7
MacArthur Fellows Program	1.1%	5
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society	1.0%	10
Fellow of the American Physical Society	0.8%	10
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame	0.7%	10
National Medal of Science	0.2%	6

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 Physical Society	16.3×	10
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society	15.1×	10
National Medal of Science	11.8×	6
Guggenheim Fellowship	8.3×	28
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science	7.4×	7
MacArthur Fellows Program	4.8×	5
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame	2.9×	10

Offices held

Most common

Office	% of its alumni	People
member of the New York State Assembly	1.9%	5
United States representative	0.8%	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	11.9×	5

Sports

Most common

Sport	% of its alumni	People
basketball	0.2%	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.