Berkeley High School

California · 112 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

Ursula K. Le Guin b. 1929	Philip K. Dick b. 1928	Jack LaLanne b. 1914
Thornton Wilder b. 1897	Rebecca Romijn b. 1972	Andy Samberg b. 1978
Raymond Burr b. 1917	Nina Hartley b. 1959	Robert Culp b. 1930
Daphne Zuniga b. 1962	Daveed Diggs b. 1982	Bobby Seale b. 1936

Occupations

Most common

Occupation	% of its alumni	People
writer	14.3%	16
television actor	13.4%	15
actor	12.5%	14
screenwriter	10.7%	12
film actor	8.9%	10
film director	8.0%	9
singer	8.0%	9
jazz musician	7.1%	8
musician	7.1%	8
politician	7.1%	8
composer	7.1%	8
basketball player	6.2%	7
stage actor	6.2%	7
American football player	6.2%	7
journalist	6.2%	7

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
jazz musician	7.2×	8
author	5.7×	5
pianist	4.7×	4
poet	4.1×	4
director	3.5×	5
engineer	3.4×	3
guitarist	3.0×	5
novelist	2.9×	6
rapper	2.9×	3
painter	2.9×	3
screenwriter	2.6×	12
film director	2.5×	9
writer	2.3×	16
stage actor	2.3×	7
composer	2.2×	8

Awards

Most common

Award	% of its alumni	People
Guggenheim Fellowship	4.5%	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
Guggenheim Fellowship	2.9×	5

Sports

Most common

Sport	% of its alumni	People
American football	6.2%	7
basketball	6.2%	7
baseball	4.5%	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.