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	15.6%	42
university professor	13.4%	50
actor	11.7%	31
journalist	11.0%	29
television actor	10.3%	25
mathematician	8.0%	30
film actor	7.4%	22
politician	6.6%	24
screenwriter	6.1%	20
novelist	6.0%	13
lawyer	5.6%	20
physicist	4.9%	15
stage actor	4.9%	14
film director	4.2%	14
computer scientist	4.1%	11

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	30.5×	30
physicist	16.9×	15
sociologist	14.6×	5
anthropologist	13.8×	6
researcher	10.3×	6
computer scientist	8.9×	11
university professor	8.6×	50
historian	7.1×	9
author	4.6×	6
novelist	4.5×	13
economist	3.9×	6
physician	3.9×	5
photographer	3.8×	10
journalist	3.4×	29
engineer	3.4×	8

Employers

Most common

Employer	% of its alumni	People
Columbia University	4.0%	12
Princeton University	2.7%	8
New York University	2.5%	7
Harvard University	2.3%	9
University of California, Berkeley	2.0%	8
University of Chicago	1.8%	7
Cornell University	1.7%	8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1.5%	6
Yale University	1.3%	5
Stanford University	0.9%	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	26.4×	8
Columbia University	21.3×	12
Princeton University	17.4×	8
New York University	16.4×	7
University of Chicago	16.1×	7
University of California, Berkeley	14.6×	8
Yale University	9.4×	5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	9.0×	6
Harvard University	6.8×	9
Stanford University	5.6×	5

Awards

Most common

Award	% of its alumni	People
Guggenheim Fellowship	7.3%	28
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society	2.4%	10
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science	2.3%	7
Fellow of the American Physical Society	2.2%	10
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame	1.8%	10
MacArthur Fellows Program	1.7%	5
National Medal of Science	1.0%	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 Mathematical Society	35.5×	10
Fellow of the American Physical Society	22.9×	10
National Medal of Science	16.0×	6
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science	10.1×	7
Guggenheim Fellowship	8.3×	28
MacArthur Fellows Program	7.0×	5
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame	3.3×	10

Offices held

Most common

Office	% of its alumni	People
member of the New York State Assembly	2.0%	5
United States representative	1.2%	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	12.7×	5

Sports

Most common

Sport	% of its alumni	People
basketball	1.1%	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.