South Philadelphia High School

Pennsylvania · 53 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

Marian Anderson b. 1897	Robert K. Merton b. 1910	Mario Lanza b. 1921
Chubby Checker b. 1941	Eddie Fisher b. 1928	Samuel Noah Kramer b. 1897
Peter Mark Richman b. 1927	Louis Fischer b. 1896	Rodney Harvey b. 1967
Vincent Persichetti b. 1915	Joseph Stefano b. 1922	Harry Gold b. 1910

Occupations

Most common

Occupation	% of its alumni	People
basketball player	27.2%	11
singer	13.5%	6
basketball coach	8.8%	5
film actor	8.5%	4
actor	8.5%	4
musician	6.1%	3
university professor	5.1%	3
opera singer	4.6%	3
baseball player	4.3%	3
writer	4.2%	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
opera singer	11.4×	3
basketball coach	2.7×	5
university professor	1.9×	3
singer	1.9×	6
basketball player	1.7×	11

Awards

Most common

Award	% of its alumni	People
Guggenheim Fellowship	6.0%	4
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame	4.7%	3

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
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame	3.7×	3
Guggenheim Fellowship	3.4×	4

Sports

Most common

Sport	% of its alumni	People
basketball	28.6%	12
baseball	4.3%	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
basketball	1.8×	12

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.