Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

Massachusetts · 84 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

Anthony Perkins b. 1932	Mindy Kaling b. 1979	Abigail Johnson b. 1961
Rachel Platten b. 1981	Helen B. Taussig b. 1898	Paul Michael Glaser b. 1943
Ari Graynor b. 1983	Charles Colson b. 1931	Deirdre McCloskey b. 1942
Reed Hastings b. 1960	Garrett Birkhoff b. 1911	George C. Homans b. 1910

Occupations

Most common

Occupation	% of its alumni	People
writer	16.7%	14
university professor	13.1%	11
television actor	9.5%	8
film actor	9.5%	8
actor	9.5%	8
journalist	9.5%	8
businessperson	7.1%	6
screenwriter	6.0%	5
film director	6.0%	5
lawyer	4.8%	4
politician	4.8%	4
art historian	4.8%	4
film producer	3.6%	3
singer	3.6%	3
television producer	3.6%	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
archaeologist	34.9×	3
art historian	26.5×	4
economist	7.1×	3
physician	6.0×	3
university professor	4.7×	11
entrepreneur	3.1×	3
writer	2.6×	14
businessperson	2.5×	6
journalist	2.3×	8
television producer	2.1×	3
film director	1.9×	5
screenwriter	1.5×	5

Employers

Most common

Employer	% of its alumni	People
Harvard University	7.1%	6

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	10.4×	6

Awards

Most common

Award	% of its alumni	People
Guggenheim Fellowship	8.3%	7
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences	8.3%	7

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 Academy of Arts and Sciences	13.4×	7
Guggenheim Fellowship	5.1×	7

Offices held

Most common

Office	% of its alumni	People
chairperson	3.6%	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
chairperson	13.9×	3

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.