Sidwell Friends School

86 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

Bob Dylan b. 1941	Nancy Reagan b. 1921	Charles Lindbergh b. 1902
Gore Vidal b. 1925	John Dos Passos b. 1896	Walter Gilbert b. 1932
George Akerlof b. 1940	Chelsea Clinton b. 1980	Robert F. Kennedy Jr. b. 1954
Jon Bernthal b. 1976	Anne Applebaum b. 1964	Bill Nye b. 1955

Occupations

Most common

Occupation	% of its alumni	People
writer	24.4%	21
journalist	18.6%	16
lawyer	12.8%	11
university professor	11.6%	10
politician	11.6%	10
screenwriter	10.5%	9
actor	10.5%	9
film director	9.3%	8
television actor	7.0%	6
film actor	7.0%	6
novelist	5.8%	5
historian	5.8%	5
businessperson	5.8%	5
basketball player	5.8%	5
director	4.7%	4

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
translator	13.9×	3
autobiographer	13.7×	4
playwright	8.7×	4
children's writer	6.6×	3
historian	6.5×	5
television director	5.1×	3
poet	5.1×	4
author	4.3×	3
journalist	4.3×	16
university professor	4.2×	10
teacher	3.9×	3
writer	3.7×	21
director	3.5×	4
novelist	3.0×	5
film director	2.8×	8

Employers

Most common

Employer	% of its alumni	People
Harvard University	4.7%	4

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
Harvard University	6.8×	4

Awards

Most common

Award	% of its alumni	People
Guggenheim Fellowship	10.5%	9
Presidential Medal of Freedom	4.7%	4

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
Presidential Medal of Freedom	11.1×	4
Guggenheim Fellowship	6.4×	9

Offices held

Most common

Office	% of its alumni	People
United States representative	4.7%	4

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
United States representative	2.1×	4

Sports

Most common

Sport	% of its alumni	People
basketball	5.8%	5

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.