Deerfield Academy

Massachusetts · 140 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

Abdullah II of Jordan b. 1962	Henry Way Kendall b. 1926	Matthew Fox b. 1966
Nestor Carbonell b. 1967	David Koch b. 1940	Carl Woese b. 1928
John Ashbery b. 1927	Kit Bond b. 1939	Allen Stack b. 1928
Gordon MacRae b. 1921	Caldwell Esselstyn b. 1933	Budd Schulberg b. 1914

Occupations

Most common

Occupation	% of its alumni	People
actor	14.0%	8
film actor	10.7%	6
journalist	9.6%	12
writer	9.5%	16
businessperson	8.2%	14
American football player	8.2%	6
film director	5.8%	5
screenwriter	5.2%	5
television actor	4.9%	6
stage actor	2.6%	3
lawyer	2.4%	15
politician	1.8%	23
university professor	1.4%	10
painter	0.7%	3
entrepreneur	0.6%	5

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
art collector	3.1×	3
businessperson	2.7×	14
architect	2.2×	3
journalist	2.2×	12
publisher	2.0×	3
political scientist	1.9×	3
diplomat	1.9×	8
writer	1.7×	16
painter	1.6×	3

Employers

Most common

Employer	% of its alumni	People
Yale University	0.8%	3

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
Yale University	5.2×	3

Awards

Most common

Award	% of its alumni	People
Guggenheim Fellowship	0.8%	4
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences	0.1%	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
Guggenheim Fellowship	1.5×	4

Offices held

Most common

Office	% of its alumni	People
United States representative	0.8%	7
member of the State Senate of Massachusetts	0.0%	3

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

Sports

Most common

Sport	% of its alumni	People
American football	8.2%	6

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.